2025 NEWS
December 2025
Award at CO-SHOW Event
We won the NRF Chairman's Award (2nd Prize) at the "Drone 3-Challenge Olympic Competition" during the CO-SHOW event.
Nov. 2025
Our lab’s joint research with NASA JPL on next-generation space exploration robots (follow-up studies related to the EELS project) was featured in multiple media outlets.
-Professors News (교수신문): https://www.kyosu.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=148652
-Robot News (로봇신문): https://www.irobotnews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=43335
-Sisa Magazine (시사매거진): https://www.sisamagazine.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=521956
September 2025
New M.S. Student
Taeseung Woo joined the lab as an M.S. student.
September 2025
Papers Published
Two papers published: "Autonomous Drone Last-Mile Delivery via Urban Balconies" in Journal of ICROS (Authors: Ho Jun Lee, Ju Hyuk Lee, Hyeonjeong Heo) and "Emergency Landing Site Selection for Urban Air Mobility Using Geographic Information and Vision Data" in Journal of KSAS (Authors: Hyeonjeong Heo, Jihyeong Ryu).
September 2025
Awards / Competition Highlights
Finalist in the 23rd Korean Robot Aircraft Competition (AAM Tech Challenge). Winner of President Award at the 7th National Capstone Design Competition (Team: Kangmin Kim, Jihyeong Ryu, Soyeon Park, Jiyoung Yoo).
August 2025
B.S. Graduation
Congratulations to Kangmin Kim on his B.S. graduation. He will continue his career at the ARRF as a MS student.
July 22, 2025
KR Patent Registered
Our patent "Method and Apparatus for Tracking a Ground Target Using a Drone Equipped with a Camera" has been registered (Registration No. 10-2838963).
June 2025
Papers Presented
Two papers presented at ICROS Annual Conference: "Attack Drone System for Neutralizing Enemy Fighter Aircraft" (Author: Jin Wan Kim) and "Automatic Coordinate and Path Assignment for Indoor Drones Using Clustering and the Hungarian Algorithm" (Authors: Kangmin Kim, Jihyeong Ryu, Minji Jeon).
June 2025
Awards
Best Paper Award at ICROS Annual Conference for "Autonomous Drone Last-Mile Delivery via Urban Balconies" (Authors: Ju Hyuk Lee, Ho Jun Lee, Hyeonjeong Heo, Prof. Kyuman Lee). Encouragement Award at KSCAS Undergraduate Paper Competition for "Indoor Drone Art Show: English Word Brushwriting Using Clustering and the Hungarian Algorithm" (Team: Kangmin Kim, Jihyeong Ryu, Minji Jeon, Prof. Kyuman Lee).
June 1, 2025
New B.S. Students
We welcome Jiyoung Yoo to our lab!
May 2025
ICUAS 2025 UAV Competition: KNU ARRF Finalist featured in AeroStream News.
(https://aerostream.fer.hr/aerostream/news?@=32arl)
April 2025
Papers Presented (Apr. 2025) at KSASS(The Korean Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences)
Six papers presented at conferences: "Aerodynamic Analysis of a Spoiler Designed for High-Speed Vehicles" (Author: Yonggyun Moon), "Early Wildfire Suppression Using Smart Drones" (Authors: Ho Jun Lee, Jeonghoon Song, Jinmo Lee), "Technology Trends in Multi-Object Tracking for Counter-UAS" (Author: Seongjin Oh), "Dynamic ROI Mechanism-Based Terrain Relative Navigation for UAV Localization" (Author: Mohomad Aqeel Abdhul Rahuman), "Optical-Flow-Based Ground Hazard Detection Algorithm for Air Mobility" (Author: Jeonghoon Song), and "Active Visual-Inertial Navigation for Drones Based on Feature-Centric Tracking" (Author: Ju Hyuk Lee).
March 1, 2025
New B.S. Students
We welcome Soyeon Park to our lab!








