Taewan Kim

I'm a Ph.D student in Aeronautics and Astronautics at University of Washington, advised by Prof. Behcet Acikmese. I enjoy learning both the theory behind control systems and the practical skills needed for performance-aware programming.

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Research

I'm interested in control and optimization. Most of my research is to formulate optization problems to compute trajectory, controlled invariant funnels, and feedback control using robust control theory.

Guaranteeing continuous-time invariance between discrete node points is challenging. This paper addresses the issue, and surprisingly, a matrix copositivity structure emerges.

Why not compute the trajectory itself as well? This paper does exactly that.

This reveals that funnel synthesis is essentially a trajectory optimization problem involving matrix variables. By applying numerical optimal control techniques, we can compute funnels that are less conservative compared to existing synthesis approaches.

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