Yongho Na
Researcher at Hyundai Motor Company (현대자동차)
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolYongho Na is a robotics-focused software engineer and researcher with eight years of experience building embedded and control software for manipulators and actuators. Based in Seoul, he progressed from hands-on development at ROBOTIS—where he contributed to well-known open-source projects like OpenCR and OpenManipulator, improving Dynamixel actuator control and adding path-drawing and vacuum gripper support—to research work at Hyundai Motor Company. He holds a master’s in Mechatronics and brings deep familiarity with ROS, embedded control modules, and low-level actuator communication. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic debugger who prefers refining core control logic over flashy features, and his contributions show a pattern of improving reliability and interoperability in robot control stacks.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Korea UniversityBachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Kwangwoon University
Github Skills (7)
robot10
embedded10
c-language10
dx10
cprogramming-language10
arduino10
ros10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ROBOTIS-GIT/open_manipulator
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
OpenManipulator for controlling in Gazebo and Moveit with ROS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 8 PRs, 90 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Yongho primarily updated and debugged the OpenManipulator library, focusing on core functionality related to the Dynamixel actuators. Their work involved modifications to the `Chain.h`, `Dynamixel.cpp`, and `Chain.cpp` files. These changes included debugging functions, error checks, and minor updates to the Dynamixel initialization process. The commits demonstrate the user's focus on refining the low-level control and communication with the robot's actuators.
gazeboroboticsros2robotarduino
ROBOTIS-GIT/OpenCR
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Software for ROS Embedded board (a.k.a. OpenCR). OpenCR means Open-source Control Module for ROS.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 55 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Yongho primarily worked on the `OpenManipulator` library, adding functionality for controlling the robot's joints, including updating joint control logic. They implemented a line-drawing path for the manipulator and added a "drawLine" function. They appear to be involved in a chain example, which involves communication with a Processing application, along with some modifications to support vacuum gripper.
roboticssource-controlros2arduinodynamixel
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