Undergraduate students from the Department of Electronics Engineering at Kookmin University's College of Creative Engineering have won the Best Paper Award at the Korea Electromagnetic Wave Society 2024 Summer Meeting.

At the 2024 Summer Conference of the Korea Electromagnetic Wave Society, held at the Alpensia Resort in Pyeongchang from August 21-23, Park Hyunsoo (20), Kim Taehoon (19), Kim Jaehyun (20), and Yoo Eugene (20) of the Department of Electronic Engineering, under the guidance of Professor Jang, Byung-Jun (Department of Electronic Engineering, College of Creative and Information Technology, Kookmin University), won the Best Paper Award for their research on 'Logistics Automation Robot Using UWB Only'.

The researchers aimed to develop an indoor logistics robot that tracks its current location in real time through TWR (Two-Way-Ranging) using UWB (Ultra-Wideband) in an indoor warehouse environment and moves to pre-assigned target coordinates. The researchers noted that UWB has higher positioning accuracy than other communication methods such as Wi-Fi or Blue Tooth indoors. Based on this, they implemented an autonomous robot that uses RGB sensors to navigate to pre-assigned destination coordinates based on the color of each item. The robot does not use LiDAR or cameras, but only UWB, which is advantageous in terms of volume and cost.