I Made Aswin Nahrendra

Postdoctoral Researcher at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

About Me

I am a postdoctoral research in the Urban Robotics Lab. at KAIST. I obtained my Ph.D in the School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics Program, KAIST. During my PhD course, I worked with Prof. Hyun Myung at the Urban Robotics Lab. My current research interests lie in the area of control, reinforcement learning, and the interplay between them for highly resilient field robotics applications.

Education

Ph.D.

Electrical Engineering and Robotics Program

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Sep. 2019 - Feb. 2024

M.S.

Electrical Engineering

Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia

Aug. 2018- Jul. 2019

B.S.

Electrical Engineering

Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia

Aug. 2014 - Jul. 2018

Research Experience


Postdoctoral Researcher

KAIST, Rep. of Korea

Sep. 2024 - present


Research Intern

Sony AI, Japan

Jan. 2024 - Jul. 2024


Graduate Research Assistant

KAIST, Rep. of Korea

Sep. 2019 - Feb. 2024

Research Highlights


DreamWaQ++: Obstacle-aware Quadrupedal Locomotion with Resilient Multi-modal Reinforcement Learning

I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Byeongho Yu, Minho Oh, Dongkyu Lee, Seunghyun Lee, Hyeonwoo Lee, Hyungtae Lim, and Hyun Myung

under review

Paper Project


DreamWaQ: Learning Robust Quadrupedal Locomotion With Implicit Terrain Imagination via Deep Reinforcement Learning

I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Byeongho Yu, and Hyun Myung

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023

Paper Project


Robust Recovery Motion Control for Quadrupedal Robots via Learned Terrain Imagination

I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Minho Oh, Byeongho Yu, Hyungtae Lim, and Hyun Myung

Experiment-oriented Locomotion and Manipulation Research Workshop @ Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2023

Paper Project


Retro-RL: Reinforcing Nominal Controller with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Tilting-Rotor Drones

I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Christian Tirtawardhana, Byeongho Yu, Eungchang Mason Lee, and Hyun Myung

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2022

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS), 2022 [Oral presentation]

Paper

Selected Publications


DreamFLEX: Learning Fault-Aware Quadrupedal Locomotion Controller for Anomaly Situation in Rough Terrains

Seunghyun Lee, I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Dongkyu Lee, Byeongho Yu, Minho Oh, and Hyun Myung

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025

Project


TRG-planner: Traversal Risk Graph-Based Path Planning in Unstructured Environments for Safe and Efficient Navigation

Dongkyu Lee, I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Minho Oh, Byeongho Yu, and Hyun Myung

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025

Paper Project


3D LiDAR Map-Based Robust Localization System Leveraging Pose Divergence Detection and Relocalization

Seungjae Lee, Minho Oh, I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Wonho Song, Byeongho Yu, Kevin Christiansen Marsim, Dongwan Kang, and Hyun Myung

IEEE 21st International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 2024

Paper


TOSS: Real-time Tracking and Moving Object Segmentation for Static Scene Mapping

Seoyeon Jang, Minho Oh, Byeongho Yu, Seungjae lee, I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Hyungtae Lim, and Hyun Myung (Best paper award)

11th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA), 2023

Best paper award

Paper

Awards


Winner

Team DreamStep of KAIST

https://quadruped-robot-challenges.notion.site/ICRA-2023-Quadruped-Robot-Challenges

Autonomous Quadrupedal Robot Challenge in ICRA 2023, London

Role: Robust locomotion control using DreamWaQ and DreamRiser


Best Work Award

Team QAIST++ of KAIST

https://urobot.kaist.ac.kr/announcement/?uid=346&mod=document&pageid=1

KROC 2023 RED Show

Autonomous Flying Drone for Unmanned Reconnaissance in Cluttered Situations

Role: Design and control of collision-robust drone platform


The Only Team that Finished the Whole Course

Team QAIST++ of KAIST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GliSRAUgi2s

Future Challenge Defense Technology Contest 2022

Role: Design and control of collision-robust drone platform

Other Publications

I Made Aswin Nahrendra -  - References on request