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Prof. Won-Tae Kim gave a presentation at Denmark GINP Robotics 2026 under the session "Korea - Denmark - India Robotics R&D, Market Insight Session." He presented "Korean Robotics R&D Insights for Danish and Indian SMEs" on May 4, 2026.
Ph.D. candidates Jun-Hyung Kwon and Young-Hun Lee, along with M.S. students Min-Seok Lee, Chan-Woo Jeong, Seong-Min Kim, and Ju-Sung Moon, attended a seminar in the ETRI International Cooperation Conference Room on April 29, 2026.
Smart CPS Lab hosted an invited seminar on AI Ethics by WaMetics CEO Jun-Sung Bang on April 28, 2026.
Prof. Won-Tae Kim chaired the first meeting of the Virtual-Physical Convergence Industry Forum on April 23, 2026.
Smart CPS Lab hosted an invited seminar on AI technology for smart cities by ETRI Division Director Won-Jong Kim on April 21, 2026.
Ph.D. candidate Young-Hun Lee's paper "LLM-Based Adaptive Control Code Generation Framework with Digital Twin-Integrated Verification for Heterogeneous Robot Systems" was published in MDPI Applied Sciences on April 16, 2026. This work was conducted in collaboration with Tae-Min Nam, Deun-Sol Cho, and Won-Tae Kim.
Ph.D. candidate Tae-Min Nam's paper "DDS-over-TSN Framework for Time-Critical Applications in Industrial Metaverses" was published in MDPI Applied Sciences on April 8, 2026. This work was conducted in collaboration with Seong-Jin Yun and Won-Tae Kim.
Ph.D. candidate Jun-Hyung Kwon attended the 71st regular meeting of the TTA Metaverse Content Project Group (PG610) on April 8, 2026, and proposed two standardization items.
Ph.D. candidate Young-Hun Lee gave a presentation at the first workshop of the Metaverse Standard Specialized Laboratory on April 8, 2026.
Prof. Won-Tae Kim gave a presentation on LLM-based process optimization for robot-centered autonomous production systems at AI-ICT Convergence Korea on April 1, 2026.
The National Research Foundation of Korea core technology project (Type B), "Multimodal Tacit Knowledge Digitalization and Neuro-Symbolic Work Intelligence for Transferring Manufacturing Skills to Industrial Humanoids," was finally selected and will run from March 2026 to February 2031.
Prof. Won-Tae Kim, Ph.D. candidate Jun-Hyung Kwon, and Ph.D. candidate Young-Hun Lee of SmartCPS Lab participated in the ITU-T Q9/21 international standards meeting, secured approval for a new recommendation on the existing work item FSTR.MV-MML, and successfully proposed the new work item HSTP.IMV-CS. SmartCPS Lab now leads two work items on the international standardization stage.
We are pleased to announce that APPARATUS AND TECHNIQUE FOR LINK ADAPTATION BASED ON INTERFERENCE RECOGNITION (12568444) has been granted as a patent.
Ph.D. candidate Jae-Min Cho demonstrated Physical AI technology during Vice Minister Kwon Chang-jun's "On-Site Visit for Strengthening Youth AI Talent Development."
Prof. Won-Tae Kim was appointed as a policy advisory committee member of the Korea National Railway, serving from November 2025 through October 31, 2027.
"Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Adaptive Scheduling for Wireless Time-Sensitive Networking" was selected as an Editor's Choice paper by Sensors.
With a newly registered international patent on December 2, 2025, SmartCPS Lab now holds a total of five international patents. 1. APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF SIMULATING ROBOT ARM MOTION PLANNING, TO WHICH CURRICULUM-BASED DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING APPLIES 2. METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPATIAL REUSE BASED ON INTERFERENCE RECOGNITION 3. METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL TWIN-BASED BEAMFORMING 4. AI DIFFERENTIATION BASED HW-OPTIMIZED INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS FOR DEVELOPING INTELLIGENT DEVICES 5. NETWORK CONTROL METHOD FOR HANDOVER IN MOBILE TSN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
SmartCPS appeared on KBS2's "Good Morning Korea," where the lab introduced its conversational robot control technology.
We warmly welcome seven new graduate students and three undergraduate researchers joining the lab in 2026.
At the 2025 summer conference of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Ph.D. candidates Deun-Sol Cho, Tae-Min Nam, and Jae-Min Cho received the Best Paper Award for their paper on an AI convergence use case for factory control and robot control in a software-defined factory for automotive manufacturing.
The research team led by Prof. Won-Tae Kim of KOREATECH Department of Computer Engineering participated in Hyundai Motor E-FOREST Tech Day 2025 and presented worker-collaborative Physical AI robot technology.
Ph.D. candidate Jun-Hyung Kwon participated as a speaker in a KMF 2025 global conference session and gave a talk on industrial metaverse technologies and standardization trends.
At ACK 2025 and the workshop on on-device AI functions, performance, and software platform technologies, M.S. candidate Young-Hun Lee presented on "An LLM-Based Adaptive Control Code Generation Framework for Heterogeneous Robots."
Prof. Won-Tae Kim attended a Korea-Denmark Robotics Research Workshop organized to identify Horizon Europe (FP9) international collaborative projects and engaged in technical exchange with faculty members from leading Danish universities such as SDU.
While preparing for the Hyundai E-FOREST demonstration with Hyundai Motor staff, Smart CPS Lab shared its Physical AI technology roadmap and showcased voice-recognition-based robot control and heterogeneous robot Job file TDL conversion technology.
Ph.D. candidate Jun-Hyung Kwon participated in the ITU-T SG21 regular meeting and presented a standards proposal.
Prof. Won-Tae Kim delivered an invited seminar hosted by RIST on SmartCPS Lab's R&D strategy and current technology status.
At the Metaverse International Standard Technology Workshop hosted by ETRI, KOREATECH, and the Korea Metaverse Industry Association at Sono Felice Convention, Prof. Won-Tae Kim served as chair and led in-depth discussions on international standardization trends and future directions for metaverse technologies.
Researchers from the ETRI Pangyo Center visited the campus, toured research facilities such as the Future Learning Center and Araedome, and held project meetings.
Prof. Won-Tae Kim participated in the 2025 Army SW Development Conference jointly hosted by the Republic of Korea Army Headquarters and the Korea Software Industry Association and presented on digital twin-based defense weapon-system software development strategies in the era of AI transformation.
SmartCPS attended The 7th International Conference on Materials and Intelligent Manufacturing (ICMIM 2025) held in Singapore.
Prof. Won-Tae Kim and Ph.D. candidate Jun-Hyung Kwon attended the ITU-T Study Group 21 Working Party 4 Q9/21 rapporteur meeting and contributed the technical paper "Metaverse Maturity Levels."
Ph.D. candidate Jin-Woo Kwon gave a presentation at the "ITRC Joint Workshop" held at Jeju Shinhwa World.
Ph.D. candidate Jun-Hyung Kwon gave a presentation at the kickoff workshop for the KEIT project "Development of Core Technologies for an On-Device AI Application SW Function/Performance Verification Framework."
On June 5, 2025, at the Autonomous Manufacturing World Show 2025 held at COEX in Seoul, Prof. Won-Tae Kim delivered a presentation on a digital twin-based software-defined factory architecture for future autonomous manufacturing processes.
At the 35th Joint Conference on Communications and Information (JCCI), M.S. candidates Young-Hun Lee, Min-Cheol Lee, and Rubab Anwar gave oral presentations on their respective research in metaverse and digital twin technologies.
Graduation photos of the lab members were posted to celebrate the graduation of Seong-Jin Yun, Hanjin Kim, Gil-Jong Shin, Tae-Min Nam, Jae-Min Cho, and Yeon-Jae Jang.
Prof. Won-Tae Kim gave a presentation titled "Designing Hyper-converged Infrastructure for Exo-Gap Digital Transformation" at HSN (The 35th Transforming from High Speed Network to Hyper-converged Service and iNfrastructure).
Dr. Hanjin Kim received the Minister of Employment and Labor Award upon graduation.
At the kickoff workshop for the KEIT project "Development of Core Technologies for an On-Device AI Application SW Function/Performance Verification Framework," Ph.D. candidate Jun-Hyung Kwon gave a presentation.
At ITRC Festival 2025, Ph.D. candidate Jin-Woo Kwon and undergraduate researchers Seong-Min Kim and Min-Seok Lee showcased research outcomes on a digital twin system for efficient energy management.
SmartCPS won a new Hyundai Motor collaborative project titled 'Development of Core Technologies for SDF-Based AI Autonomous Manufacturing to Advance the Automotive Industry.' The project aims to develop advanced AI-based autonomous manufacturing technologies based on the concept of the software-defined factory (SDF) and validate them in Hyundai Motor manufacturing processes. Through collaboration with Hyundai Motor, ETRI, KITECH, KIMM, UNIST, and the Ulsan Metropolitan Government, the project targets validation at Hyundai Motor's Ulsan plant in 2027. SmartCPS Lab will conduct research on key technologies including large-language-model-based adaptive planning for SDF manufacturing processes, deep-reinforcement-learning-based SDF manufacturing scheduling, and MLOps workflows.
Ph.D. candidate Deun-Sol Cho and M.S. candidate Jae-Min Cho of SmartCPS Lab published their paper 'A Generative Digital Twin for Continually Enhancing the Intended Functional Safety of Cyber-Physical Systems' in IEEE Transactions on Reliability, one of the top journals in the reliability field, reporting their research results on digital twin technology for assuring autonomous CPS reliability.
This seminar served as a venue for introducing international standardization status and technologies related to the metaverse and for exchanging views and information among academia, industry, and research communities on key issues in international standardization.
Postdoctoral researcher Young-Jin Kim and Ph.D. candidate Hanjin Kim of SmartCPS Lab published their paper 'Advanced Fire Emergency Management Based on Potential Fire Risk Assessment with Informative Digital Twins' in Automation in Construction, a leading journal in urban engineering, reporting their research on digital twin technology for highly reliable fire detection.
At the 2024 promising technology briefing for the Cheonan-Asan Strong Small and Medium Research and Development Special Zone in Chungnam, the lab introduced two technologies: 'Distributed Simulation-Based Advanced Driver Assistance System' for advanced driver assistance systems for reliable autonomous driving, and 'Autonomous Virtual Commissioning-Based AI Adaptation Platform, System, and Method for Intelligent System Development' for autonomous robotic systems.
The lab participated in the kickoff meeting for establishing the First Basic Plan for Promotion of the Virtual Convergence Industry, convened to secure new growth engines for the future metaverse industry.
SmartCPS Lab successfully won the national R&D project for the Metaverse Standard Specialized Laboratory, aimed at securing leadership in international standardization and strengthening domestic standardization capabilities through early conceptualization of core metaverse technologies and standards development. Through joint research with the ETRI Standards Research Division and the Korea Metaverse Industry Association, the lab will pursue international standardization for future metaverse innovation technologies such as metaverse levels and industrial metaverses, including the definition of standard concepts and the development and proposal of technical reports.
Prof. Won-Tae Kim gave a workshop presentation for the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy project "Development of Core Technologies for SDF-Based AI Autonomous Manufacturing to Advance the Automotive Industry."
Prof. Won-Tae Kim received a Service Award from the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
At the "Workshop on Open Smart Edge Device Development Platform Technology Achievements," the lab presented its work on developing a high-fidelity simulation framework for functional and performance verification of smart edge devices.
Prof. Won-Tae Kim gave a presentation on a digital twin-based industrial metaverse platform and related standards at the "Metaverse International Standard Technology Workshop."
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced 26 flagship AI autonomous manufacturing projects. In this initiative, backed by a combined public-private investment of KRW 3.7 trillion, SmartCPS will help build a flexible mixed-model manufacturing system that optimizes process planning and scheduling using AI and robots and adjusts logistics and production paths in real time according to demand.
Ph.D. candidate Deun-Sol Cho and M.S. candidate Jae-Min Cho of SmartCPS Lab received acceptance for their paper "Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework using Automated Curriculum scheme for Accurate Motion Planning," an outcome of the research project on an industrial-convergence metaverse-based automotive manufacturing process optimization framework, in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, a top journal in AI and CPS.
The seminar presented insights into a classification system for metaverse technology types based on the defined development stages of the metaverse and the technical requirements for each stage.
M.S. candidate Gil-Jong Shin and Ph.D. candidate Seong-Jin Yun of SmartCPS Lab published their paper 'A Novel Policy Distillation with WPA Based Knowledge Filtering Algorithm for Efficient Industrial Robot Control' in IEEE Access, reporting research on reinforcement-learning-based control model optimization for autonomous CPS.
A seminar was held on industrial metaverse and AI technologies for autonomous production systems, focusing on the definition of industrial metaverse development stages and the technical requirements for each stage.
At a government-hosted Global ICT Standards Conference, the lab delivered a seminar on industrial metaverse technologies, covering future development directions, current technology readiness, and standardization issues for the next generation of industrial metaverses.
SmartCPS developed collaborative robot control technology with a high success rate by applying curriculum learning methodology to deep reinforcement learning and applied the technology to a Hyundai Motor pilot line.
At the 2nd Cheonan Science and Technology Innovation Promotion Summit Forum, the lab joined a panel discussion and shared insights on the future direction of the metaverse, industrial development, and digital transformation technologies.
The lab visited KEPCO KDN headquarters and delivered a seminar on digital twin technologies to around 400 employees and staff members from related organizations.
At the forum titled 'Virtual Worlds Communicating with Reality: The Development Strategy of Digital Twins,' hosted by KISTEP, the lab participated in a panel discussion, presented a roadmap for the evolution toward autonomous digital twins, and emphasized the need to develop core enabling technologies.
At KOREATECH's conference on core technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the lab delivered a seminar on CPS and the future of digital twins in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, introducing the current state of CPS and digital twin technologies for future smart manufacturing and sharing insights on future directions.
The lab participated as a panelist in the Public Safety Drone Seminar hosted by the Korea National Police University and shared practical know-how related to drone technologies.
The team developed a smart fire monitoring system that uses composite sensors, a Raspberry Pi, and a deep-learning-based fire assessment algorithm, earning the Excellence Award at the 1st KETI Mobius 2.0 IoT Service Developers Contest.
The lab was invited to the 2016 Seoul Knowledge Expo hosted by the Seoul Business Agency and delivered a technical seminar on CPS/IoT technology trends for smart cities.