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Sixty Years and Going Strong

Emeritus Prof. Harry H. Hilton reached a remarkable milestone in September 2009 — his 60th continuous year at the University of Illinois.

College Honors Archambault

The university, college, and Department of Aerospace Engineering welcomed Colonel Lee J. Archambault, BS 82, MS 84 AE, a distinguished United States Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut, back to campus during the Foundation weekend Oct. 2-4.

AE undergrad wins National Student Role Model Award

AE undergraduate Joseph Gonzalez has been selected as the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers’ National Student Role Model of the Year

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Soon-Jo Chung

Assistant Professor

sjchung@illinois.edu		 Return to: Faculty
Office address Mailing Address Research Group
317 Talbot Lab
217-244-2737		 306 Talbot Lab
104 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL  61801		 Aerospace Robotics and Control Group
Research Areas
Aerospace systems, autonomous systems, and robotics. In particular, nonlinear control theory; cooperative control and synchronization of multi-vehicle systems; neurobiologically inspired control of flapping flight and robot locomotion; robust nonlinear control of robots and high performance aerospace vehicles; formation of flying UAVs/MAVs and spacecraft; innovative concepts for space systems; space tethers; control experimentation and instrumentation; vision-based SLAM and path planning in GPS-denied environments.

 

Education:

  • Sc.D. Estimation and Control, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
  • M.S. Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
  • B.S. Aerospace Engineering, summa cum laude, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1998

Academic Positions:

  • 2009-present: Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois
  • 2007-2009: Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University
  • 2008-2009: Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
  • 2000-2002, 2003-2007: Graduate Research Assistant, MIT Space Systems Laboratory
  • 2002-2003: Research Engineer, New Initiative Office, National Optical Astronomical Observatories, Tucson, AZ

Major Honors and Awards:

  • AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2008)
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (2008)
  • Finalist, Best Student Paper, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) Conference (2006)
  • Outstanding Reviewer, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (2006)
  • KAIST Action Committee Presidential Award - fourth highest honor graduate, out of 600 (1998)
  • Ranked 1/120, Mechanical/Aerospace/Nuclear Engineering, KAIST, class of 1998
  • Summa Cum Laude, Highest Distinction, KAIST (1998)
  • AT&T Asia/Pacific Leadership Award (2000)
  • Outstanding Faculty in College of Engineering, Iowa State University VEISHEA (2009)
  • Most Interesting Line of Research Award, Dept. Aerospace Eng., Iowa State, Fall 2008, Spring 2009
  • Most Inspiring Professor Award, Dept. Aerospace Eng., Iowa State, Fall 2008, Spring 2009

Selected Publications: 

  • S.-J. Chung, and J.-J. E. Slotine, "Cooperative Robot Control and Concurrent Synchronization of Lagrangian Systems," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 686-700, June 2009.
  • S.-J. Chung, M. Dorothy, and J. R. Stoner, "Neurobiologically Inspired Control of Engineered Flapping Flight," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, under review. Also, Proc. of the 2009 AIAA Infotech at Aerospace and Unmanned Unlimited Conference and Exhibit, Seattle, WA, 6-9 April 2009, AIAA-2009-1929.
  • K. Celik, S.-J. Chung, M. Clausman, and A. K. Somani, "Monocular Vision SLAM for Indoor Aerial Vehicles," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, under review. Also, Proc. of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, Oct. 2009.

  • K. Seo, S.-J. Chung, and J.-J. E. Slotine, "CPG-based Control of a Turtle-like Underwater Vehicle," Autonomous Robots, special issue in "Control of Locomotion: From Animals to Robots,” conditionally accepted, 2009.

  • S.-J. Chung, U. Ahsun, and J.-J. E. Slotine, "Application of Synchronization to Formation Flying Spacecraft: Lagrangian Approach," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 512-526, Mar.-Apr. 2009.  
  • S.-J. Chung, and D. W. Miller, "Propellant-Free Control of Tethered Formation Flight, Part 1: Linear Control and Experimentation," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 571-584, May-June 2008.
  • S.-J. Chung, J.-J. E. Slotine, and D. W. Miller, "Propellant-Free Control of Tethered Formation Flight, Part 2: Nonlinear Underactuated Control," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 1437-1446, September-October 2008.
  • S.-J. Chung, J.-J. E. Slotine, and D. W. Miller, "Nonlinear Model Reduction and Decentralized Control of Tethered Formation Flight," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 390-400, 2007.
  • S.-J. Chung, D. W. Miller, and O. L. de Weck, "ARGOS Testbed: Study of Multidisciplinary Challenges of Future Spaceborne Interferometric Arrays," Optical Engineering, Vol. 43, No. 9, pp. 2156-2167, September 2004.