Seunghwan Um

Hi there! I'm a PhD student at Robotics Innovatory, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, under the supervision of Prof. Hyouk Ryeol Choi

My research focuses on designing versatile robotic gripper for logistics.

These days, I'm interested in developing a robotic system that can interact with the external environment for grasping or manipulation, so I'm considering various methods from gripper design to imitation learning.

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Research

Overcoming Heavy Clutter: Utilizing the Hybrid Grasping Network and Gripper
Seunghwan Um, Yeong Gwang Son, Tat Hieu Bui, Ho Sang Jung, Hyouk Ryeol Choi*
IROS 2024 Workshop: Benchmarking via Competitions in Robotic Grasping and Manipulation
★Best Extended Abstract
Workshop page / Youtube / Paper

A robotic bin-picking system evaluated in the 9th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) at ICRA 2024.

Development of Adaptive Gripper Enhancing Power Grasp Range and Linearity
Issac Rhee, Chun Soo Kim, Heeyeon Jeong, Seung Jae Moon, Seunghwan Um, Yeong Gwang Son, Yong Bum Kim, Ho Sang Jung, Hyouk Ryeol Choi*
IEEE Access, 2024
Paper

Gripper design that applies a Grasshopper mechanism to improve fingertip movement. It also allows the fingertips to move towards the palm of the gripper after grasping an object, thereby expanding the range of object sizes that can be adaptively grasped.

ReC-Gripper: A Reconfigurable Combined Suction and Fingered Gripper for Various Logistics Picking and Stowing Tasks
Seunghwan Um, Heeyeon Jeong, Chun Soo Kim, Issac Rhee, Hyouk Ryeol Choi*
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Presented in ICRA 2024
Paper

Reconfigurable gripper to handle the objects in the bin and shelf environment simultaneously.
I validated the gripper's performance in experiment at shelf, and competition like bin environment.

Award

Bronze Prize of Samsung Humantech
Seunghwan Um, Yeong Gwang Son, Juyong Hong, Chun Soo Kim, Hyouk Ryeol Choi*
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., 2025
News / Humantech site

2nd Place in the Competition
Yeong Gwang Son, Seunghwan Um, Juyong Hong, Chun Soo Kim, Hyouk Ryeol Choi*
9th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) at ICRA, 2024
News / Competition page

We participated 9th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) at ICRA 2024
with ReC-Gripper and Extended CoAS-Net.
Best Prize in the Contest
3D Design for the Future, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE), 2023
Bronze Prize in the Competition
The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME), 2021
Encouragement Prize in the Contest
Creative and Intelligent Robot Contest (CIRO), 2021
[1st Team], Seunghwan Um, Hyungjin Park, Jaehyeon Nam, Boseok Kim, Yohan Ahn, Minsu Kong, Changho Lee, hyunju Kwak, Joonmyung Choi*
[2nd Team] Boseok Hong, Youngsu Jeong, Euichan Kim

Team leader of Wall Climbing Car (WCC) [Undergraduate Project]

Personal Project

Admittance Control with RB10
Seunghwan Um, Jaeyoon Shim
Code (TBD) / Page


I got help from YeongGwang Son to build homepage. Inspired by Jon Barron's website.

I've received a lot of research help from Jehyeok Kim who is my cousin. I always cheer him on and am very proud of him.