MORIN Lab civilian marine robotics
MORIN Lab marine robotics

Mobile Robotics &
Intelligence Laboratory

Intelligent autonomy for mobile systems
in complex and uncertain environments.

Mobile Robotics &
Intelligence Laboratory

Intelligent autonomy for mobile systems
in complex and uncertain environments.

MORIN Lab at KAIST

Mobile Robotics & Intelligence Laboratory (MORIN Lab) conducts research on intelligent control, autonomy, and decision-making for vehicles and mobile robotic systems.

Our work spans dynamics, guidance, navigation, control, estimation, and learning-based methods, with a particular emphasis on marine robotic systems and autonomous vehicles.

We develop fundamental algorithms and practical technologies that enable mobile robots to operate safely, robustly, and intelligently in complex and uncertain environments. While much of our research is motivated by marine applications—including autonomous surface and underwater vehicles—the methods we develop are broadly applicable to ground, aerial, and other mobile robotic systems.

For inquiries, please contact jinwhan@kaist.ac.kr.

Research Highlights

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  • Makespan Minimization for Multi-Robot Task Allocation with Balance-Aware Pointerformer

    Hakmo Son, Haggi Do and Jinwhan Kim*

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Early Access, 2026.

  • CROCS: Camera-Radar Online Alignment via Conic-Section-Constrained Scalar Field Correlation

    Sol Han and Jinwhan Kim*

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Early Access, 2026.

  • Terrain-Based Global Tracking Without Prior Pose Information using Multibeam Echosounder Measurements

    Qianyi Zhang and Jinwhan Kim*

    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 75, pp. 7506113-7506113, 2026