Dohyeon Lee

I am an undergraduate student in the Department of IT Convergence Engineering at POSTECH in South Korea. I am currently serving in the Republic of Korea Army to fulfill my mandatory military duty (until December 2025).

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Research

I'm interested in robotics, control, motion planning, deep learning. Representative papers are highlighted.
(Equal contributions are denoted by *)

A Highly Maneuverable Flying Squirrel Drone with agility-improving Foldable Wings
Dohyeon Lee*, Jun-Gill Kang*, Soohee Han
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025
project page / video / arxiv

Develop general trajectory tracking controller of flying squirrel with learned wing dynamics.

A Highly Maneuverable Flying Squirrel Drone with Controllable Foldable Wings
Jun-Gill Kang*, Dohyeon Lee*, Soohee Han
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
project page / video / arxiv

Build and control non-linear dynamics governed flying squirrel inspired quadrotor using reinforcement learning.


Project

Reachability-Aware MPPI for aggressive maneuvers
08.2025-Current

• Environment estimation from the sample history of MPPI.
• Obtain the reachable set using an empirical gramian based method.

Development of highly maneuverable Flying Squirrel Drone
06.2022-06.2025
video

• Implement integral backstepping based Lyapunov stable controller for drone.
• Implement adaptive Kalman filters for state estimation under aggressive maneuvers.
• Collect data using Mocap and GNSS for training neural net dynamics model.
• Implement simulation for full SE(3) dynamics model using MATLAB using ode45 integrator.

Skills : Linkage system design, 3D CAD, Hardware design, GNSS, Mocap, Learning from demonstration

Sloshing control with Physics-Informed RNN by 6-axis manipulator
08.2023 - 02.2024
Related achievement: 1st place, 2023 Undergraduate Group Research Program, POSTECH
video

• Development of 6-axis manipulator hardware and stabilization of low-level control system.
• Proposal and Implementation of a Physics-Informed RNN for water state observer.
• Implement LQR controller and velocity motion planning of manipulator for water sloshing control.

Skills : 3D CAD, 3D printing, Physics-Informed Learning, ROS2

Whole-body control of quadrupedal robot with arm by off-policy RL
06.2023-08.2023
video

• implement off-policy (SAC) and on-policy (PPO) RL to a Legged-manipulator robot in the Isaac Gym.
• Designed a learning pipeline for whole-body control of a legged-manipulator robot using a VAE and replay buffer of an off-policy RL.

Skills : OSC(operational space controller), Isaac Gym, RL

Development of Glidable Flying Squirrel Drone
02.2022-06.2022
video

• Develop Glidable drone with foldable wings.
• Simulating gliding drone with matlab.

Skills : 3D CAD, 3D printing, Kalman Filter

Quadruped-wheel robot control with impedance control
08.2021-01.2022
Related achievement: 1st place, 2021 Undergraduate Group Research Program, POSTECH
video

• Development of quadruped-wheel robot hardware and stabilization of low-level control system.
• Balancing control with inverse kinematics.
• Application of impedance control to the robot legs.

Skills : 3D CAD, 3D printing, CAN protocol, UDP protocol, simulating impedance control with matlab

Development of self-driving platform using mecanum wheel and 2D lidar
11.2020-02.2021
Related achievement: 3rd place, 2021 ICT Convergence Project Contest, devicemart
video

• Directly implement mapping and A* algorithms with Python.
• Development SLAM algorithm from scratch.
• Hardware development.

Skills : 3D CAD, 3D printing, ROS1


In the Media

About Flying Squirrel Drone Research
International Media Coverage: TechXplore(Cover Article) , NEW ATLAS(Cover Article) , heise online , TechieTonics(Personal Interview), ...
Domestic Media Coverage: SBS(Korea Major Media) , YTN(Korea Major Media) , ...


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