Journals

  1. D. Kim*, P. Y. Oh, “Human-Embodied Drone Interface for Aerial Manipulation: Advantages and Challenges,” Journal of Service Robots (JIST, Best Paper Finalist), 2024. [DOI]

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

  1. D. Kim*, P. Y. Oh, “Skywriting Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Proof-of-Concept Design,” IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2017. [DOI]
  2. D. Kim*, P. Y. Oh, “Lab automation drones for mobile manipulation in high throughput systems,” IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2018. [DOI]
  3. D. Kim*, P. Y. Oh, “Towards Micro-Plate Delivery using a re-sized Lab Automation Drone in High Throughput Systems,” IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (URAI), 2018. [DOI]
  4. D. Kim*, P. Y. Oh, “Toward Lab Automation Drones for Micro-plate Delivery in High Throughput Systems,” IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2018. [DOI]
  5. J. O. Choi, D. Kim*, “A New UAV-based Module Lifting and Transporting Method: Advantages and Challenges,” International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), 2019. [DOI]
  6. D. Kim*, P. Y. Oh, “Testing-and-Evaluation Platform for Haptic-based Aerial Manipulation with drones,” IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), 2020. [DOI]
  7. D. Kim*, P. Y. Oh, “Human-Drone Interaction for Aerially Manipulated Drilling using Haptic Feedback,” IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020. [DOI]
  8. D. Kim*, P. Y. Oh, “Toward Avatar-Drone: A Human-Embodied Drone for Aerial Manipulation,” IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2021. [DOI]
  9. D. Kim*, P. Y. Oh, “Aerial Manipulation using Embodied Human-Intelligence,” IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO), 2022. [DOI]
  10. A. Zagari, Z. Castrejon, D. Kim*, P. Y. Oh, “Cable-Driven Parallel Robot for Warehouse Monitoring Tasks,” IEEE Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), 2023. [DOI]
  11. J. Hughes, D. Kim, P. Manjunath, S. Henderson, “Toward Collaborative Aerial Swarming Architecture for Military Applications,” IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), 2023. [DOI]
  12. L. Stauffer, P. Manjunath, D. Kim*, C. Korpela, “Tactical Autonomous Maneuver Testbed for Multi-Agent Air-Ground Teams,” IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME), 2023. [DOI]
  13. D. Kim*, I. Monde, P. Manjunath, J. Davis, “Towards Virtual Reality-based tele-manipulation systems for military applications,” SPIE Defense and Sensing, 2024. [DOI]
  14. J. Beason, G. Hurlock, D. Kim*, P. Manjunath, “Dynamic, Decentralized, Task Allocation for UAS Swarms,” SPIE Defense and Sensing, 2024. [DOI]
  15. D. Kim*, P. Manjunath, E. Adeniran, J. Davis, “A Data Collection Scheme to Develop Future Autonomous Manipulation for Military Applications,” IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 2024. [DOI]
  16. D. Kim*, “Human-Embodied Aerial Manipulation for Nuclear Material Handling,” American Nuclear Society Winter Conference and Expo (ANS WC), 2024. [DOI]
  17. G. Park*, D. Kim, J. Yook, “Design of artificial intelligence air-to-ground guidance control device for wildfire extinguishing,” 2024 Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology (KIMST), 2024.
  18. J. Steckenrider*, D. Kim, P. Manjunath, “From Detection to Traversal: a Probabilistic Framework for UAS-Assisted Landmine Mapping and Circumvention,” IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2025. [DOI]
  19. G. Park, D. Kim*, T Nam, J. Yook, “Smart Air-to-Ground Guidance System using Deep Learning for Wildfire Response,” Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology (KIMST), 2025. [DOI]

Manuscript in Preparation

  1. D. Kim*, W. Yim, “3D Gradient Decent Algorithm for UAV Swarm Source Searching,” Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (JINT) (in Progress).

Posters

  1. D. Kim*, P. Y. Oh, “Parallel Manipulator-Gripper for Mobile Manipulating UAVs,” Annual Meeting of Inspecting and Preserving Infrastructure Through Robotic Exploration (INSPIRE), 2018. [PDF]
  2. D. Kim*, P. Y. Oh, “Human Collaborative Haptic-Based Mobile-Manipulating UAVs,” Annual Meeting of Inspecting and Preserving Infrastructure Through Robotic Exploration (INSPIRE), 2020. [PDF]
  3. G. Park, D. Kim*, J. Davis, C. Marchetti, J. Yook, “Toward a Deep Learning-guided Air-to-Ground Fire Extinguishing System for Wildfire Response,” IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR) , 2025. [PDF]

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