Chonnam National University Wins 'Presidential Award' at Robot Commercialization Idea Competition

Students of Chonnam National University receiving the Presidential Award at the '2021 International Robot Contest and Robot Commercialization Idea Competition.' Photo by Chonnam National University

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Cho Hyung-joo] Chonnam National University announced on the 7th that it won the Presidential Award at the '2021 International Robot Contest and Robot Commercialization Idea Competition.'

Castle Zero team, composed of students from Chonnam National University, won the Presidential Award, the Gold Prize, in the 'Zeus Industrial Robot ZERO Mission Challenge' category of this competition hosted by the Korea Robot Industry Promotion Agency (Director Son Woong-hee) on October 30, beating 22 teams nationwide.

They perfectly executed the task of recognizing and picking up Jenga blocks with an industrial vertical multi-joint robot to form dominoes, and received high scores by presenting a control technique that generates the robot's path based on vision.

The Castle Zero team consisted of graduate students An Si-heon and Chen Long-wan, undergraduate student Jeong Go-woon (Department of Mechanical Engineering (double major), Medical Robot and Intelligent Control Laboratory, supervised by Professor Go Seong-young), and graduate student Woo Young-joo (Department of Artificial Intelligence Convergence, Human-Media Laboratory, supervised by Professor Jeong Hee-yong).

Chonnam National University supports about 20 graduate students annually through the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy’s ‘Robot-based Innovation Leading Professional Training Project’ and fosters excellent robot specialists through various educational programs such as industry-academia projects, field training, and short-term education.

Professor Go Seong-young said, "The Chonnam National University team was the only one to succeed in the designated mission, and in the autonomous mission, they were recognized for their creativity by controlling the robot through a human-robot interface using vision." He added, "I am proud of the students who have worked hard and challenged themselves, and I will guide them to achieve even more results."

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