Hunmin Kim

Postdoctoral Research Associate
The Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Office: Computing Applications Bldg, 605 East Springfield Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
Email: hunminkim3@gmail.com, hunmin@illinois.edu

Biography

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I am a postdoctoral research associate in The Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am affiliated with the Advanced Controls Research Laboratory at UIUC. I received my Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from The Pennsylvania State University (2018), and a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Pusan National University, Korea (2012).

Research Interest

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• Safe and optimal control of Cyber-physical Systems

• Security of Cyber-physical Systems

• Distributed control of multi-agent networks

• Game theory and mechanism design

• Estimation for stochastic dynamic systems

• Applications: Autonomous vehicle, unmanned aerial vehicle, and smart grid

Journal Publications

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• Robust Vehicle Lane Keeping Control with Proactive Adaptation
  H. Kim, W. Wan, N. Hovakimyan, L. Sha, and P. G. Voulgaris.
  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2021, Submitted.

• Constrained Attack-Resilient Estimation of Stochastic Cyber-Physical Systems
  W. Wan, H. Kim, N. Hovakimyan, and P. G. Voulgaris.
  Automatica, 2021, Submitted.

• On Data-driven Attack-resilient Gaussian Process Regression for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems
  H. Kim, P. Guo, M. Zhu, and P. Liu.
  Automatica, 2021, Submitted.

• Optimal Bi-level Lottery Design for Multi-agent Networks (Arxiv)
  H. Kim, and M. Zhu.
  IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2020, Submitted.

• Simultaneous Input and State Estimation for Stochastic NonlinearSystems with Additive Unknown Inputs
  H. Kim, P. Guo, M. Zhu, and P. Liu.
  Automatica, 11:108588, 2020.

• Distributed Robust Adaptive Frequency Control of Power Systems with Dynamic Loads
  H. Kim, M. Zhu, and J. Lian.
  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 65(11):4887-4894, 2020.

Conference Publications

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• Sampling Complexity of Path Integral Methods for Trajectory Optimization
  H. Yoon, C. Tao, H. Kim, N. Hovakimyan, and P. G. Voulgaris.
  American Control Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2021, Submitted.

• Control Barrier Function Augmentation in sampling-based Control Algorithm for Sample Efficiency
  C. Tao, H. Kim, H. Yoon, N. Hovakimyan, and P. G. Voulgaris.
  American Control Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2021, Submitted.

• Backup Plan Constrained Model Predictive Control
  H. Kim, H. Yoon, W. Wan, N. Hovakimyan, L. Sha, and P. G. Voulgaris.
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, TX, Dec. 2021, Accepted.

• Estimation and Planning of Exploration Over Grid Map Using A Spatiotemporal Model with Incomplete State Observations
  H. Yoon, H. Kim, K. Shrestha, N. Hovakimyan, and P. G. Voulgaris.
  IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, San Diego, CA, Aug. 2021, To appear.

• Safety Constrained Multi-UAV Time Coordination: A Bi-level Control Framework in GPS Denied Environment
  W. Wan, H. Kim, N. Hovakimyan, L. Sha, and P. G. Voulgaris.
  AIAA AVIATION Forum, Washington, D.C., pages 2464, Jun. 2021.

• Robust Vehicle Lane Keeping Control with Proactive Adaptation
  H. Kim, W. Wan, N. Hovakimyan, L. Sha, and P. G. Voulgaris.
  American Control Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, pages 136-141, May 2021.

• A Safety Constrained Control Framework for UAVs in GPS Denied Environment
  W. Wan, H. Kim, N. Hovakimyan, L. Sha, and P. G. Voulgaris.
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Jeju island, Korea, pages 214-219, Dec. 2020.

• On Data-driven Attack-resilient Estimation Using Gaussian Process Regression
  H. Kim, P. Guo, M. Zhu, and P. Liu.
  American Control Conference, Denver, CO, pages 2981-2986, Jul. 2020.

• Attack-resilient Estimation for Linear Discrete-time Stochastic Systems with Input and State Constraints
  W. Wan, H. Kim, N. Hovakimyan, and P. G. Voulgaris.
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, pages 5107-5112. Dec. 2019.

• Towards Resilient UAV: Escape Time in GPS Denied Environment with Sensor Drift
  H. Yoon, W. Wan, H. Kim, N. Hovakimyan, L. Sha, and P. G. Voulgaris
  IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, Cranfield, UK, 52(12), pages 423-428, Jan. 2019.

• Attack-resilient Estimation of Switched Nonlinear Cyber-Physical Systems
  H. Kim, P. Guo, M. Zhu, and P. Liu.
  American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, pages 4328-4333, May 2017.

• Optimal Incentive Design for Distributed Stabilizing Control of Nonlinear Dynamic Networks
  H. Kim and M. Zhu.
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, pages 2289-2294, Dec. 2015.

• Distributed Robust Frequency Regulation of Smart Power Grid with Renewable Integration
  H. Kim and M. Zhu.
  American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, pages 2347-2352, Jul. 2015.