Research

Infrastructure-Aware Navigation for Autonomous Mobile Robots

My research focuses on enabling autonomous mobile robots to understand and safely traverse signalized urban intersections by combining communication, robotic navigation, perception, and simulation.

Core Direction

Research Focus

SPaT/R2X-based Navigation

Communication-assisted crosswalk navigation using signal phase and remaining-time information from roadside infrastructure.

ROS 2 / Nav2 Safety Systems

Integration of localization, obstacle awareness, signal-aware decision logic, and safe velocity control for mobile robots.

Intersection Intelligence

Infrastructure-aware scene understanding for pedestrians, vehicles, traffic lights, occlusions, and complex crossing situations.

Current Progress

Recent Work

Recent work connects field experiments and simulation. The goal is to move from a signal-aware crossing algorithm toward a reproducible robotic system that can be tested in both real and digital-twin environments.

SPaT/R2X AMR Crosswalk Navigation

Developed a time-aware crosswalk decision framework using SPaT remaining-time information and a Time-to-Cross criterion.

SPaT · R2X · TTC · Pedestrian Signal · AMR

Delivery Robot ROS 2 Integration

Configured LiDAR, IMU, camera, odometry, joint states, and ROS 2 communication for a Delivery Robot simulation pipeline.

ROS 2 · Isaac Sim · LiDAR · Camera · Delivery Robot

Fast-LIO2 and Nav2 Navigation Pipeline

Applied LiDAR-based SLAM and navigation components for map generation, localization, and autonomous driving tests.

Fast-LIO2 · Nav2 · SLAM · LiDAR

VLM-based Intersection Understanding

Preparing infrastructure-camera and simulation scenarios for future VLM-based interpretation of urban intersections.

VLM · Infrastructure Camera · Intersection Scene Understanding