International Journals
| 1 | Byungchul Kim, Hyungmin Choi, Kyubum Kim, Sejin Jeong, and Kyu-Jin Cho, “Exo-Glove Shell: A Hybrid Exo-Glove for the Thumb Opposition with an Under-Actuated Tendon-Driven System,” in Soft Robotics (I.F. 7.9, Top 20%), Aug. 2024. [pdf][Supplementary][video][site] |
| 2 | Jaehyun Lee, Byungchul Kim, Kyu-Jin Cho, and Yong-Lae Park, “Underactuated Robotic Gripper with Fiber-Optic Force Sensing Tendons”, in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (I.F 5.2, Top 20%), vol. 8, Issue 11, pp. 7607 - 7614, Nov. 2023. [pdf] [site] |
| 3 | Byungchul Kim, Useok Jeong, Brian Byunghyun Kang, and Kyu-Jin Cho, “Slider-Tendon Linear Actuator with Under-actuation and Fast-connection for Soft Wearable Robots “, in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (I.F 6.4, Top 10%), vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 2932-2943, Dec. 2021. [pdf] [site] |
| 4 | Byungchul Kim, Jiwon Ryu, and Kyu-Jin Cho, “Joint Angle Estimation of a Tendon-Driven Soft Wearable Robot through a Tension and Stroke Measurement,” in Sensors (I.F 3.9, Top 25%), 20.10 (2020): 2852. [pdf] [site] |
| 5 | Byungchul Kim, Hyunki In, Daeyoung Lee, Kyu-Jin Cho, “Development and assessment of a hand assist device: GRIPIT”, in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation (I.F 5.1, Top 5%), 14.1 (2017): 15. [pdf] [site] |
Computer Science Conferences
| 6 | Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Juntian Zheng, Pingchuan Ma, Yilun Du, Byungchul Kim, Andrew Everett Spielberg, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chuang Gan, and Daniela Rus, “DiffuseBot: Breeding Soft Robots With Physics-Augmented Generative Diffusion Models,” in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023). [pdf] [video] [site] **Oral presentation** |
Journals Under Review / in Preparation
| 7 | Kyu Bum Kim, Hyungmin Choi, Byungchul Kim, Brian Byunghyun Kang, Sangheui Cheon, and Kyu-Jin Cho, “Exo-Glove Poly III: Grasp Assistance by Modulating Thumb and Finger Motion Sequence with a Single Actuator,” Soft Robotics, under-review. |
| 8 | Byungchul Kim, Useok Jeong, and Kyu-Jin Cho, “Dual-Tendon Routing: Tendon Routing for Under-actuated Tendon-Driven Soft Hand-wearable Robot,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, submitted. |
| 9 | Byungchul Kim, Useok Jeong, and Kyu-Jin Cho, “Exo-Glove Pinch: Soft Hand-wearable Robot Designed through the Analysis of the Constrained Tendon Routing,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, submitted. |
Refereed Conference Paper
| 10 | Gregory Xie, Lillian Chin, Byungchul Kim, Rachel Holladay, and Daniela Rus, “Strong Compliant Grasps Using a Cable-Driven Soft Gripper”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2024. |
| 11 | Byungchul Kim, Useok Jeong, Brian Byunghyun Kang, and Kyu-Jin Cho, “Slider-Tendon Linear Actuator with Under actuation and Fast connection for Soft Wearable Robots”, International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, 2021. |
Patents
| 9 | Kyu-Jin Cho, Byungchul Kim, Daeyoung Lee, “PEN HOLDER”, US 9522562, US. [site] |
| 10 | Kyu-Jin Cho, Hyunki In, Kyuhan Cho, Byungchul Kim, “PASSIVE VARIABLE TRANSMISSION FOR WIRE DRIVEN JOINT MECHANISM”, 10-11600270-0000, KR. **Technology transfer** [site] |
| 11 | Kyu-Jin Cho, Byungchul Kim, Hyungmin Choi, “SLIDER TYPE TENDON DRIVEN ACTUATOR FOR UNDER-ACTUATION AND GLOVE TYPE WEARABLE ROBOT HAVING THE SAME ACTUATOR”, 2020/005275, Patent pending (PCT/KR). |
Books
| 12 | Myungjoon Lim, Jiyoung Park, Kuem Ju Lee, Hyosun Kweon, Byungchul Kim, Kyu-Jin Cho, Hyun Choi, “Usability of a New Writing Assistive Device for Persons with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury,” in Studies in health technology and informatics, 217 (2015): 710-717. |
Other conferences and Workshop Papers
| 13 | Cedric Honnet, Yunyi Zhu, Martin Nisser, Chao Liu, Byungchul Kim, Jae Hun Seol, Jongho Lee, Daniela Rus, and Stefanie Mueller, “Laser-Etching Flexible Sensors for Robotic Touch Recognition,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Late Braking Results, London, United Kingdom, May 2023. [video] |
| 14 | Byungchul Kim and Kyu-Jin Cho, “Building Simple Yet Competent Soft-Rigid Hybrid Hand Wearable Robots”, IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics & Biomechanics, Seoul, Korea, August 2022. |
| 15 | Byungchul Kim and Kyu-Jin Cho, “Slider-Tendon Linear Actuator to Simplify the Soft Wearable Robots”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Challenges and Opportunities of Bio-inspired Design, Actuation, and Locomotion, Philadelphia, USA, May 2021. |
| 16 | Kyubum Kim, Byungchul Kim, Data-driven Inverse Kinematics for Human Hand”, International Conference on Control Automation and Systems, Korea, October 2021. |
| 17 | Byungchul Kim, Kyu-Jin Cho, “Wrist Anchor for Soft Hand Wearable Robot”, The Korean society of Mechanical Engineers, on-line, April 2021. |
| 18 | Byungchul Kim, Hyungmin Choi, Kyu-Jin Cho, “Wrist tendon anchor for soft wearable robot”, The Korean society of Mechanical Engineers, on-line, December 2020. |
| 19 | Sanghee Cheon, Brian Byunghyun Kang, Byungchul Kim, Hyungmin Choi, Kyubum Kim, Kyu-Jin Cho, “Exo-Glove Power: A Soft Wearable Hand Robot for Power Grasp Enhancement,”, International Conference of Control Automation and Systems, Jeju Island, Korea, July 2019. |
| 20 | Byungchul Kim, Brian Byunghyun Kang, Sanghee Cheon, Hyungmin Choi, Kyubum Kim, Kyu-Jin Cho, “Wrist tendon anchor for soft wearable robot,” International Conference of Control Automation and Systems, Jeju Island, Korea, July 2019. |
| 21 | Byungchul Kim, Useok Jeong, Brian Byunghyun Kang, Kyu-Jin Cho, “Compact Actuator with Tendon Transmission Box for Soft wearable Robot”, 2019 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), late breaking result, April 2019. |
| 22 | Byungchul Kim, Kyu-Jin Cho, “Modeling of the relationship between wire tension and joint torque for force control of tendon driven hand assist wearable robot”, International Conference of Control Automation and Systems, Pyeongchang, Korea, October 2018. |
| 23 | Byungchul Kim, Haemin Lee, Sanghoon Kim, Kyu-Jin Cho, “Tendon path design of robotic hand for natural hand motion, The Korean society of Mechanical Engineers, Daejeon, Korea, April 2017. |
| 24 | Jiyoung Park, Myungjoon Lim, Keumju Lee, Hyosoon Kweon, Byungchul Kim, Kyu-Jin Cho, Hyeon Choi, Usability assessment of a glove type writing assistive device for people with spinal cord injury, International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and assistive technology, Midview city, Singapore, August 2015. |
| 25 | Byungchul Kim, Daeyoung Lee, Kyu-Jin Cho, Development of tendon maintain system for tendon-driven wearable device, The Korean Society of Precision Engineering, Jeju Island, Korea, May 2015. |
| 26 | Byungchul Kim, Hyunki In, Kyu-Jin Cho, Strap driven system for hand soft exoskeleton, International Biomedical Engineering Conference, Gwangju, Korea, November 2014. |
| 27 | Byungchul Kim, Daeyoung Lee, Jisuk Kim, Hyunki In, Kyu-Jin Cho, Usability assessment of a glove type writing assistive device for people with spinal cord injury, Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of Korea, Jeonju, Korea, April 2012. |
Theses and Dissertations
| 28 | Byungchul Kim, “Tendon-Driven Hand Wearable Robot using Slider-Tendon Linear Actuator”, Doctoral Dissertation, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. [pdf] |
| 29 | Byungchul Kim, “A user-friendly assistive glove for SCI people performing natural writing posture”, Master’s thesis, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. |