Dongheui Lee is currently an assistant professor (since October 2009) at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. She is the head of Dynamic Human Robot Interaction for Automation System Lab. She received her B.S. and M.S degree at the department of mechanical engineering, Kyunghee University, Korea, in 2001 and 2003, respectively. She worked as a research scientist at the Advanced Robotics Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Korea from 2001 to 2004. In 2007, she received her PhD degree at the department of Mechano‐Informatics, the University of Tokyo, Japan. After receiving PhD degree she joined the center of Information and Robot Technology at the University of Tokyo as a project assistant professor.
Selected Awards
2009, Finalist for the “KUKA Service Robotics Best Paper Award” at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation for the paper “Mimetic Communication with Impedance Control for Physical Human-Robot Interaction”, D. Lee, Ch. Ott and Y. Nakamura.
2007, Grant Awardee for IEEE-RAS / IFRR School of Robotics Science on Learning, Lazise, Italy
2006-2007, Hirose Scholarship Awardee, Japan
2005-2006, KRF (Korea Research Foundation) Grant Awardee
2005, Best mimetic Award from International School of Robotics Science (ISRS)
2005, Grant Awardee for International School of Robotics Science (ISRS), University of Tokyo
2005, University of Tokyo Academic Research Activities Supporting Grant Award for the paper “Probabilistic Model of Whole-body Motion Imitation from Partial Observations” D. Lee and Y. Nakamura, In Proc. of The 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR'05)
2004-2005, KOSEF (Korea Science and Engineering Foundation) Grant Awardee
2004-2005, MEXT Grant Awardee, JASSO (Japan Student Services Organization)
2004, 1st Position Price Award Rescue Robot League Competition, RoboCup2004
2000-2001, Overseas Research Survey Project Grant Awardee for the research survey on “Environmental Oriented Villages in Europe”, Kyung Hee University
1996-2000, Scholarship 11 times from Kyung Hee University
Research Interests
Dongheui Lee’s research interests include human motion understanding, physical human robot interaction, machine learning in robotics, humanoid robots, human-robot collaboration, probabilistic robotics, motion recognition and tracking, incremental life-long learning mechanism, and mobile robot navigation.
Selected Publications
Lee, Dongheui; Ott, Christian: Incremental kinesthetic teaching of motion primitives using the motion refinement tube. Autonomous Robots 31 (2-3), 2011, 115-131.
Medina-Hernández, J.R.; Lawitzky, M.; Mörtl, A.; Lee, D.; Hirche, S.: An Experience-Driven Robotic Assistamt Acquiring Human Knowledge to Impruve Haptic Cooperation. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011.
Lee, D.; Ott, C.; Nakamura, Y.: Mimetic Communication Model with Compliant Physical Contact in Human--Humanoid Interaction. The International Journal of Robotics Research 29 (13), 2010, 1684-1704.
Lee, D.; Nakamura, Y.: Mimesis Model from Partial Observations for a Humanoid Robot. The International Journal of Robotics Research 29 (1), 2009, 60-80.
Kunori, H.; Lee, D.; Nakamura, Y.: Associating and Reshaping of Whole Body Motions for Object Manipulation. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'09), 2009.
Kulic, D.; Lee, D.; Ott, C.; Nakamura, Y.: Incremental Learning of Full Body Motion Primitives for Humanoid Robots. Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS'08), 2008.
Kulic, D.; Lee, D.: Motion Capturing from Monocular Vision by Statistical Inference Based on Motion Database: Vector Field Approach. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'07), 2007.
Lee, D.; Chung, W.: Discrete-Status-Based Localization for Indoor Service Robots. IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron. 53 (5), 2006, 1737-1746.
An, Sang-ik; Lee, Dongheui: Prioritized Inverse Kinematics with Multiple Task Definitions. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, 2015 mehr…BibTeX
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Hu, K.; Ott, Ch.; Lee, D.: Online Iterative Learning Control of Zero-Moment Point for Biped Walking Stabilization. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 mehr…BibTeX
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Saveriano, Matteo; An, Sang-ik; Lee, Dongheui: Incremental kinesthetic teaching of end-effector and null-space motion primitives. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, 2015 mehr…BibTeX
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Shile Li; Seongyong Koo; Dongheui Lee: Real-time and model-free object tracking using particle filter with Joint Color-Spatial Descriptor. 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, 2015 mehr…BibTeX
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2014
An, S.; Lee, D.: Prioritizrd Inverse Kinematics using QR and Cholesky Decompositions. IEEE International Confernece on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 mehr…BibTeX
An, Sang-ik; Lee, Dongheui: Prioritized inverse kinematics using QR and cholesky decompositions. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, 2014 mehr…BibTeX
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Koropouli, Vasiliki; Gusrialdi, Azwirman; Lee, Dongheui: ESC-MRAC of MIMO systems for constrained robotic motion tasks in deformable environments. 2014 European Control Conference (ECC), IEEE, 2014 mehr…BibTeX
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Magnanimo, Vito; Saveriano, Matteo; Rossi, Silvia; Lee, Dongheui: A Bayesian approach for task recognition and future human activity prediction. The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE, 2014 mehr…BibTeX
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Saveriano, Matteo; Lee, Dongheui: Safe motion generation and online reshaping using dynamical systems. 2014 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), IEEE, 2014 mehr…BibTeX
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2013
Seongyong Koo; Dongheui Lee; Dong-Soo Kwon: Multiple object tracking using an RGB-D camera by hierarchical spatiotemporal data association. 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE, 2013 mehr…BibTeX
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2012
Hu, K.; Ott, C.; Lee, D.: Online Human Walking Imitation in Task and Joint Space based on Quadratic Programming. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012 mehr…BibTeX
Hu,K.; Lee, D.: Prediction-based Synchonized Human Walking Motion Imitation by a Humanoid Robot. Automatisierungstechnik 60, 2012, 705-714 mehr…BibTeX
Medina Hernández, J.R.; Lee, D.; Hirche, S.;: Risk -Sensitive Optimal Feedback Control for Haptic Assistance. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Automation (ICRA), 2012 mehr…BibTeX