Yoonseok Pyo
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolYoonseok Pyo, Ph.D. is a robotics engineer and seasoned leader with 13+ years designing service robot platforms at ROBOTIS, where he progressed from engineer to director and now VP. He blends deep academic training from Kyushu University and a JSPS research fellowship with hands-on expertise in embedded systems, ROS integration, and Dynamixel motor control demonstrated across prominent open-source projects like TurtleBot3, OpenCR, and DynamixelSDK. Yoonseok is equally comfortable shipping low-level firmware and orchestrating release management and documentation, having led numerous package releases, changelogs, and e-manual enhancements in both English and Korean. Based in Seoul, he focuses on open-source-based intelligent systems and service robotics, with a practical knack for bridging hardware protocols and ROS ecosystems—a skill reflected in his contributions to widely used robotics toolchains.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronic Engineering at Kwangwoon UniversityPh.D. Advanced Information Technology, Ph.D. Advanced Information Technology at Kyushu University
Korean, Japanese, English
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Github Skills (27)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ROBOTIS-GIT/turtlebot3
Jun 2016 - Sep 2019
ROS packages for Turtlebot3
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 13 reviews, 217 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Yoonseok primarily contributed to the `turtlebot3_node` package, adding initialization files and implementing core functionality. The code includes ROS (Robot Operating System) nodes for controlling the TurtleBot3, including joint state and odometry calculations, and publishing wheel speeds. This indicates a focus on the low-level control and sensor integration aspects of the robot.
gazeboroboticsros2robotros-packages
ROBOTIS-GIT/turtlebot3_simulations
May 2017 - Sep 2019
Simulations for TurtleBot3
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 4 reviews, 66 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Yoonseok primarily worked on updating and releasing binary packages for the TurtleBot3 simulations. Their contributions involved modifying CHANGELOG.rst files to reflect version updates and new features. They added and updated worlds, models, and launch files, and also refactored the code by merging packages. This involved the integration of ROS 2 migration and modification of related configuration files.
gazebopythonsimulationsrobotsimulation
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