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Overview

Yong-Lae Park is affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, particularly focusing on biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, control and systems engineering, cognitive neuroscience, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their research covers several specialized topics, including:

  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

A frequent contributor to leading journals and conferences, Yong-Lae Park has published numerous papers in venues such as:

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Advanced Intelligent Systems
  • Advanced Materials
  • Soft Robotics
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Among recent significant publications are:

  • Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots (2020), published in Science Robotics
  • Review of machine learning methods in soft robotics (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • Heterogeneous sensing in a multifunctional soft sensor for human-robot interfaces (2020), published in Science Robotics
  • Modeling and Control of a Soft Robotic Fish with Integrated Soft Sensing (2021), published in Advanced Intelligent Systems
  • Triboresistive Touch Sensing: Grid-Free Touch-Point Recognition Based on Monolayered Ionic Power Generators (2022), published in Advanced Materials

Collaborations play a notable role in their work, with frequent co-authors including Sudong Lee, Sohee John Yoon, Myungsun Park, DongWook Kim, and Gyowook Shin. These collaborations have contributed to the diversity and depth of their research output.

Best Publications

  • Design and Fabrication of Soft Artificial Skin Using Embedded Microchannels and Liquid Conductors

    Yong-Lae Park;Bor-Rong Chen;R. J. Wood

  • Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots

    Benjamin Shih;Dylan S. Shah;Jinxing Li;Thomas George Thuruthel

  • Hyperelastic pressure sensing with a liquid-embedded elastomer

    Yong-Lae Park;Carmel Majidi;Rebecca Kramer;Phillipe Bérard

  • Design and control of a bio-inspired soft wearable robotic device for ankle-foot rehabilitation.

    Yong-Lae Park;Bor-rong Chen;Néstor O Pérez-Arancibia;Diana Young;Diana Young

  • Wearable soft sensing suit for human gait measurement

    Yiğit Mengüç;Yong-Lae Park;Hao Pei;Daniel Vogt

  • A Soft Strain Sensor Based on Ionic and Metal Liquids

    Jean-Baptiste Chossat;Yong-Lae Park;Robert J. Wood;Vincent Duchaine

  • Real-Time Estimation of 3-D Needle Shape and Deflection for MRI-Guided Interventions

    Yong-Lae Park;Santhi Elayaperumal;Bruce Daniel;Seok Chang Ryu

  • Design and Characterization of a Soft Multi-Axis Force Sensor Using Embedded Microfluidic Channels

    Daniel M. Vogt;Yong-Lae Park;Robert J. Wood

  • Review of machine learning methods in soft robotics

    Daekyum Kim;Daekyum Kim;Sang-Hun Kim;Taekyoung Kim;Brian Byunghyun Kang

  • A soft wearable robotic device for active knee motions using flat pneumatic artificial muscles

    Yong Lae Park;Jobim Santos;Kevin G Galloway;Eugene C Goldfield

  • Heterogeneous sensing in a multifunctional soft sensor for human-robot interfaces

    Taekyoung Kim;Sudong Lee;Taehwa Hong;Gyowook Shin

  • Soft wearable motion sensing suit for lower limb biomechanics measurements

    Yigit Menguc;Yong-Lae Park;Ernesto Martinez-Villalpando;Patrick Aubin

  • Design of a Lightweight Soft Robotic Arm Using Pneumatic Artificial Muscles and Inflatable Sleeves

    Preston Ohta;Luis Valle;Jonathan King;Kevin Low

  • The Curious Robot: Learning Visual Representations via Physical Interactions

    Lerrel Pinto;Dhiraj Gandhi;Yuanfeng Han;Yong Lae Park

  • Bio-inspired active soft orthotic device for ankle foot pathologies

    Yong-Lae Park;Bor-rong Chen;Diana Young;Leia Stirling

  • Design and Control of a Bio-inspired Human-friendly Robot

    Dongjun Shin;Irene Sardellitti;Yong-Lae Park;Oussama Khatib

  • Wearable soft artificial skin for hand motion detection with embedded microfluidic strain sensing

    Jean-Baptiste Chossat;Yiwei Tao;Vincent Duchaine;Yong-Lae Park

  • Force Sensing Robot Fingers using Embedded Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors and Shape Deposition Manufacturing

    Yong-Lae Park;K. Chau;R.J. Black;M.R. Cutkosky

  • A Soft Wearable Robotic Ankle-Foot-Orthosis for Post-Stroke Patients

    Junghan Kwon;Ji-Hong Park;Subyeong Ku;YeongHyeon Jeong

  • Improving Soft Pneumatic Actuator fingers through integration of soft sensors, position and force control, and rigid fingernails

    John Morrow;Hee-Sup Shin;Calder Phillips-Grafflin;Sung-Hwan Jang

  • ELASTIC STRAIN SENSOR

    Wood Robert J;Park Yong-Lae;Majidi Carmel S;Chen Bor-Rong

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Wood
Robert J. Wood Harvard University
Carmel Majidi
Carmel Majidi Carnegie Mellon University
Radhika Nagpal
Radhika Nagpal Princeton University
Mark R. Cutkosky
Mark R. Cutkosky Stanford University
Conor J. Walsh
Conor J. Walsh Harvard University
Michael T. Tolley
Michael T. Tolley University of California, San Diego
Kyu-Jin Cho
Kyu-Jin Cho Seoul National University
Cameron N. Riviere
Cameron N. Riviere Carnegie Mellon University
Fumiya Iida
Fumiya Iida University of Cambridge
Oussama Khatib
Oussama Khatib Stanford University

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