Hello all, I am a Ph.D candidate in Aeronautics and Astronautics at University of Washington, advised by Prof. Behcet Acikmese. In a nutshell, I am interested in anything moving autonomously and any theory about convergence. For my Ph.D. I have been focusing on robust motion planning and control, training neural network policy via imitation learning, and their applications to robotic systems like commercial aircrafts, reusable rockets, mobile robots, and manipulators.
You can find my CV below (updated 01.30.2024).
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News
🖨️ New work on computation of funnel synthesis has been submitted.
đź“°Â My internship work at MERL will be presented at ACC2024.
đź“°Â Our work on joint synthesis is accepted to International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.
🥇 Our SciTech paper I co-authored has been recognized with the AIAA Best Paper Award (link).
🎖️ I have been awarded Amazon Fellowship from the UW+Amazon Science Hub (announcement).
Publications
- Taewan Kim and Behcet Acikmese, “Sufficient LMI Copositivity Conditions for Funnel Synthesis of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems”, 2024 (submitted) [paper].
- Taewan Kim, Purnanand Elango, and Behcet Acikmese, “Joint Synthesis of Trajectory and Controlled Invariant Funnel for Discrete-time Systems with Locally Lipschitz Nonlinearities”, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2024 [paper].
- Taewan Kim, Purnanand Elango, Taylor P. Reynolds, Behcet Acıkmese, and Mehran Mesbahi “Optimization-based Constrained Funnel Synthesis for Systems with Lipschitz Nonlinearities via Numerical Optimal Control”, LCSS 2023 [paper].
- Abhinav G. Kamath, Purnanand Elango, Taewan Kim, Skye Mceowen, Yue Yu, John M. Carson, Mehran Mesbahi, and Behcet Acikmese, “Customized Real-Time First-Order Methods for Onboard Dual Quaternion-based 6-DoF Powered-Descent Guidance”, AIAA SciTech 2023 [paper][Best paper award].
- Taewan Kim, Purnanand Elango, Danylo Malyuta, and Behcet Acıkmese, “Guided Policy Search using Sequential Convex Programming for Initialization of Trajectory Optimization Algorithms”, ACC 2022 [paper][video].
- Taewan Kim, Chungkeun Lee, Hoseong Seo, Seungwon Choi, Wonchul Kim, and H. Jin Kim, “Vision-based Target Tracking for a Skid-steer Vehicle using Guided Policy Search with Field-of-view Constraint”, IROS 2018 [paper].
- Taewan Kim, Wonchul Kim, Seungwon Choi, and H. Jin Kim, “Path Tracking for a Skid-steer Vehicle using Model Predictive Control with On-line Sparse Gaussian Process”, IFAC 2017 [paper].