{"id":157212,"date":"2024-02-13T16:48:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T07:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/?post_type=research-achieve&#038;p=157212"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:38:23","slug":"professor-hyunchul-shims-joint-research-team-won-second-place-at-the-3rd-mbzire-international-robotics-challenge","status":"publish","type":"research-achieve","link":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/research-achieve\/professor-hyunchul-shims-joint-research-team-won-second-place-at-the-3rd-mbzire-international-robotics-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Hyunchul Shim&#8217;s joint research team won second place at the 3rd MBZIRE International Robotics Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color: #000000\"> Professor Hyunchul Shim&#8217;s joint research team won second place at the 3rd MBZIRE International Robotics Challenge<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color: #000000\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-157214\" src=\"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" title=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&lt;Professor Hyunchul Shim&#8217;s Joint Research Team Picture&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color: #000000\">At the recent 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0MBZIRC hosted at Abu Dhabi, UAE, the joint team by Prof. Hyunchul Shim(EE) and Jinwhan Kim (KAIST ME) won 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0place in Feb 8, 2024, winning $650K USD.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color: #000000\">This competition requires USV and UAV perform a joint mission to retrieve designated objects from \u201cillegal\u201d boat on actual sea absolutely without GPS.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color: #000000\">For this, Prof. Shim developed vision-based navigation technology and autonomous robot based retrieval system while Prof. Kim\u2019s team developed radar-based autonomous USV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color: #000000\">During the competition, there were numerous difficulties including the ship\u2019s mechanical problems and many unforeseen problems from operating actual high sea, but 20 graduate students in our team were able to overcome these problems, winning 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Prof Shim said, \u201cthere were so many problems not only in technical side but also in operational side, we were able to win a real competition, not some small scale competition, and I\u2019d like to thank Prof. Kim and all the students did their best and more\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>389<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":157214,"template":"","research_category":[],"class_list":["post-157212","research-achieve","type-research-achieve","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-achieve\/157212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-achieve"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/research-achieve"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"research_category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_category?post=157212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}