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KIST Participates in CES 2024 (January 17, 2024)
- Date : 2024-04-02
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KIST Participates in CES 2024
KIST took part in the world's largest IT exhibition, CES 2024, which was held in Las Vegas, USA, from January 9th to January 12th. This marks the fourth time that KIST has participated in CES as an institute, having previously taken part in 2020, 2022, and 2023. At this year's CES, KIST exhibited 9 promising future technologies in fields such as AI, robotics, and smart farms. Eureka Park, where the KIST booth was located, is an exhibition space for showcasing innovative technologies.
Representing KIST's Center for Neuromorphic Engineering, Senior Researcher Jae-wook Kim presented the neuromorphic chip “FirstClass,” which is capable of improving autonomous driving comfort. FirstClass is an AI semiconductor that mimics the cerebellar neural network responsible for the natural movements of the human body. It learns the driving preferences of the human driver in real time, leading to smoother, customer-tailored autonomous driving experiences similar to human driving.
Representing KIST’s Center for Artificial Intelligence, Principal Researcher Hee-dong Ko showcased the “CSI-Based Human Activity Recognition and Activity Intensity Estimation Technology.” The Wi-ESP system utilizes WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) and ESP32-based ultra-small IoT modules to detect and record users' activities and their intensity. Through the collection and learning of CSI signals and maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) data, the system converts them into the user's Metabolic Equivalent of Task (MET) values without the need for wearable devices, enabling the estimation of the user's activity intensity for recording health status information in daily life.
Representing KIST's Center for Intelligent & Interactive Robotics, Senior Researcher So-na Kwak presented the “CollaBot.” CollaBot is a robotic library system consisting of multiple pieces of furniture, such as bookshelves and chairs. It utilizes multiple robotic products to collaborate, recognize the surrounding environment or user information, and provide necessary services to users. For example, in a space equipped with CollaBot, when the user searches for a book on his or her mobile phone, the bookshelf containing the book pushes the book out, while chairs functioning as ladders or carts, depending on the height of the shelf, deliver the book to the user.
The smart farm technology presented by KIST is a convergence technology developed between the Clean Energy Research Division and the Gangneung Institute of Natural Products. It was developed through a joint effort between the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, and the Rural Development Administration under the Smart Farm Cross-Departmental Innovation Technology Development Project. It brings together various technologies, such as “Selective Light Transmission Solar Panel Greenhouse Technology,” “3D Plant Scanning Robot Technology,” “Plant Growth Measurement Technology and AI Greenhouse Control Technology,” “Optimal Cultivation Environment Decision-Making Technology Based on Plant Condition,” and “Compound Nutrient Platform Technology.”
The “Selective Light Transmission Solar Panel Greenhouse Technology,” presented by Clean Energy Research Division Director Byoung-Koun Min, Principal Researcher Philip Lee, and Senior Researcher Tae-Hee Kim, involves installing light-transmitting solar panel modules on the roof or walls of a greenhouse to permit the selective transmission of light wavelengths required for crop production while simultaneously producing electricity.
Representing KIST's Smart Farm Research Center, Principal Researcher Taek-Sung Lee's “3D Plant Scanning Robot Technology” overcomes the limitations of conventional 3D image-based phenotypic data extraction, which is vulnerable to external factors such as natural light and surface reflections, by utilizing the NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields) algorithm, a generative 3D image AI learning method, to precisely measure and extract plant growth information.
Meanwhile, Principal Researcher Soo-Hyun Park presented the Smart Farm Research Center's “Plant Growth Measurement Technology and AI Greenhouse Control Technology,” which is a depth image sensor-based plant growth point and growth index extraction and utilization technology that monitors and models plant growth and growth states in smart farm greenhouses and proposes optimal conditions for maintaining plants based on an AI model.
Another Smart Farm Research Center technology, presented by Principal Researcher Hyoung-Seok Kim, is the “Optimal Cultivation Environment Decision-Making Technology Based on Plant Condition,” which monitors the physiological states of plants using installed internal radiation, temperature, humidity, CO2, and leaf temperature sensors and diagnoses the current nutrient state of the plants, suggesting conditions for optimal cultivation in smart farm greenhouses using an AI model.
Principal Research Ju-Young Lee, also from the Smart Farm Research Center, showcased the “Compound Nutrient Platform Technology,” which is currently being implemented and involves a fertilizer balance management software technology that utilizes drainage analysis to ensure the stable nutrient absorption patterns of industrial crops, including algorithms for calculating nutrient balance management and visible nutrient status visualization based on drainage analysis from sensors installed around the plants.
Lastly, the startup company iSEN, located in the Hongneung Special Zone, exhibited its wireless gait analysis technology. A remote patient monitoring device, the “iSEN Tracker” is a smart wearable medical device that enables easy gait measurement in a clinic without the need for angle gauges or goniometers. It also links to iSEN’s “Care App” and “Web Dashboard,” enabling personalized knee care for patients according to their recovery stage.
The then-current President of KIST, Dr. Seok-Jin Yoon, expressed his pride in KIST technologies and products from innovative companies supported by KIST being showcased to the world at CES 2024, stating, “We will spare no effort in building global partnerships so that KIST-developed technologies can be transferred and commercialized not only domestically, but internationally as well.”