Publications

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2026

Position: Modular Safety Guardrails Are Necessary for Foundation-Model-Enabled Robots in the Real World

Joonkyung Kim⁺, Wenxi Chen⁺, Davood Soleymanzadeh⁺, Yi Ding, Xiangbo Gao, Zhengzhong Tu, Ruqi Zhang, Fan Fei, Sushant Veer, Yiwei Lyu^*, Minghui Zheng^*, and Yan Gu^*

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Position Track, 2026

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Gaussian Mixture-Based Inverse Perception Contract for Uncertainty-Aware Robot Navigation

Bingyao Du, Joonkyung Kim, and Yiwei Lyu^*

American Control Conference (ACC), 2026

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2025

Merry-Go-Round: Safe Control of Decentralized Multi-Robot Systems with Deadlock Prevention

Wonjong Lee, Joonyeol Sim, Joonkyung Kim, Siwon Jo, Wenhao Luo, and Changjoo Nam^*

IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025

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CARE: Enhancing Safety of Visual Navigation through Collision Avoidance via Repulsive Estimation

Joonkyung Kim⁺, Joonyeol Sim⁺, Woojun Kim, Katia Sycara, and Changjoo Nam^*

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025

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Escaping Local Minima: Hybrid Artificial Potential Field with Wall-Follower for Decentralized Multi-Robot Navigation

Joonkyung Kim, Sangjin Park, Wonjong Lee, Woojun Kim, Hyunga Choi, Nakju Doh, and Changjoo Nam^*

Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025

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2023

Room for me?: Mobile Navigation for Entering a Confined Space Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Joonkyung Kim and Changjoo Nam^*

Int. Conf. on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 2023

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2026

Capability-Aware Heterogeneous Control Barrier Functions for Decentralized Multi-Robot Safe Navigation

Joonkyung Kim, Yanze Zhang, Wenhao Luo, and Yiwei Lyu^*

Preprint, 2026

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2025

Safe Interval RRT* for Scalable Multi-Robot Path Planning in Continuous Space

Joonyeol Sim, Joonkyung Kim, and Changjoo Nam^*

Preprint

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