Robotics · Humanoid · VLA

Seokmin Yoon

M.S. student at Sungkyunkwan University, working with the Robotics & Intelligent Systems Lab, advised by Prof. Hyungpil Moon.

I study how robots can learn useful behavior from vision and demonstration. My current interests are vision-language-action models, viewpoint-robust imitation learning, and whole-body humanoid teleoperation.

How can a robot policy stay reliable when the camera moves, the object is occluded, or the embodiment changes?

My work sits between robot learning and systems engineering. I am particularly interested in policies that understand where they are looking, actively seek better observations, and transfer what they learn to real humanoid platforms.

PERCEPTIONactive vision
camera conditioning
LEARNINGVLA models
imitation learning
EMBODIMENTteleoperation
humanoid control

Research log

Small updates from ongoing work.

  1. Integrating hand and arm control into a humanoid VR teleoperation pipeline.

  2. Studied visual subgoal generation and hierarchical manipulation policies.

  3. Investigated camera conditioning for view-invariant imitation learning.

  4. Reviewed active perception methods for VLA-based robotic manipulation.

Agibot humanoid robot operating beside a tensile-testing apparatus through VR teleoperation
OngoingAgibot · VLA

Agibot VR Teleoperation & Tensile-Test Automation

Implemented VR teleoperation for an Agibot humanoid platform and developed an automated tensile-testing workflow with a π0.5 policy.

My contribution Agibot VR teleoperation integration and π0.5 task development for tensile-test automation.

Humanoid robot in a logistics simulation workcell with conveyor belts and boxes
Sep 2025–PresentHumanoid · Simulation · VLA

Development of a K-Logistics Humanoid Robot Integrated with a High-Sensitivity Robotic Hand Based on a Multimodal AI Foundation Model

Developing a K-logistics humanoid robot that combines a high-sensitivity robotic hand with multimodal AI foundation models. The work deploys imitation-learning and vision-language-action policies for robot manipulation.

My contribution Built an Isaac Sim environment and task assets that reproduce the real workcell, enabling demonstration-data augmentation for policy training.

Vision language action model pipeline RGBLANGOPENVLAACTION
Research prototypeVLA · PyTorch

Adapting OpenVLA to Robot Data

An end-to-end study of dataset preparation, fine-tuning, inference, and robot-side evaluation. The goal is to identify which assumptions fail when a generalist VLA meets a custom robot setup.

Focus Data representation, camera setup, and deployment failure analysis.

Multiple cameras observing a robot task VIEW AVIEW BTASK
Research directionActive vision

Camera-Robust Robot Learning

Exploring robot policies that remain reliable as viewpoint and occlusion change. This work connects camera conditioning, active perception, and task-aware view selection.

Research question Should the policy become view-invariant, or should the robot learn where to look?

Education

M.S. Student in Intelligent Robotics Engineering

Sungkyunkwan University
Robotics & Intelligent Systems Lab

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Major GPA 4.33 / 4.5

Dual Major, Mobility SW/AI Convergence

Major GPA 4.33 / 4.5

Experience

Robotics R&D Intern · Doosan Robotics

Vision Group, Robot Dynamics & Motion Control Team

  • 01
    Unstructured Depalletizing

    Developed box segmentation and dimension-estimation components for depalletizing unknown box configurations.

  • 02
    Automated Data Collection & Labeling

    Implemented an image-data collection pipeline with automated data gathering and auto-labeling workflows.

  • 03
    VLA Manipulation with Doosan Robots

    Built data-gathering and visualization workflows, and evaluated manipulation in simulation using VR teleoperation.

Honors & Awards

Outstanding Intern

Doosan Robotics · Excellent internship evaluation

Outstanding Leadership

ROKEY Bootcamp · Recognized for team performance and leadership

President's Award

Graduated top of the class

National Science & Engineering Scholarship

Ministry of Science and ICT

Research stack

PyTorch, VLA, imitation learning, computer vision

ROS 2, teleoperation, manipulation, humanoid control

Python, Linux, Git, SolidWorks, robot data pipelines

Interested in robot learning, VLA systems, or humanoid?

yosmon@g.skku.eud