Guidance and Control
Guidance laws and control-system design for aerospace vehicles.
Welcome! I'm Yongjin Kim.
I am an electrical engineering student interested in guidance and control, trajectory optimization, and nonlinear and adaptive control for aerospace systems.
02 / Research
Areas of interest
My interests center on aerospace guidance, trajectory design, and control under nonlinear and changing flight conditions.
Trajectory Optimization
Optimal trajectory generation under vehicle dynamics and mission constraints.
Nonlinear and Adaptive Control
Robust flight control across nonlinear dynamics and changing operating conditions.
Digital Hardware
RTL accelerators and compute-efficient architectures for embedded systems.
03 / Projects
Selected engineering work
Each entry separates implemented work from ongoing development and documented study.
Flight systems
Rocket Avionics and Validation
Built telemetry ground software and developed an STM32F405 replay platform for repeatable avionics firmware validation.
Navigation
INS/GNSS Integrated Navigation
Evaluated a loosely coupled extended Kalman filter using reference position, velocity, and attitude data.
View repositoryDigital hardware
Tiny Neural Network Accelerator
Implemented FC1-Norm-ReLU-FC2 inference with a reusable 4x4 weight-stationary systolic array.
View repositoryEmbedded optimization
Zynq FFT Software Optimization
Completed and benchmarked a 64-point radix-2 DIF FFT on a Zybo Z7-20, comparing direct DFT, C FFT, and ARM implementations.
View studyComputer architecture
Five-Stage Tiny CPU
Implemented a 16-bit pipelined CPU with arithmetic, memory, branch instructions, and multi-stage data forwarding.
View architecture
Computer vision
Vision-Based Drone Following
Demonstrated live YOLO person detection and bounding boxes on Tello video.
View prototype
Embedded vision
WineQueen
Developed YOLOv8 bottle-mouth detection and Arduino-driven control software for automated wine sealing and opening.
View project04 / Experience
Education and experience
ASEC Rocket Team
Electronics Team Member, Konkuk University
Intelligent Navigation and Control Laboratory
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Konkuk University
Konkuk University
B.S. Candidate, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Recognition4th Place / Sponsor Award34th NURA Rocket Competition
05 / Contact
For research and engineering conversations, reach me by email or through the profiles below.