About Us
We are an autonomous driving research group in the High-assurance Mobility Control Lab (HMCL) at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, consisting of undergraduate and graduate students.
Our work focuses on autonomous racing challenges such as high-speed decision making, precision control, competitive interactions, and risk-aware maneuvers. We view autonomous racing as a high-fidelity experimental environment that demands real-time performance, resilience, safety, and robustness from autonomous systems.
We adopt racing as our primary testbed and operate a simulation–experiment–competition pipeline to evaluate our algorithms using metrics such as lap time, stability, overtaking strategy, and collision avoidance. Our goal is to build autonomous racing systems with strong reliability, scalability, and generalization, validated through real racing performance and competitive testing.
Advisor
Cheolhyeon Kwon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, UNIST
Office: +82(0)52-217-2433
E-mail: kwonc@unist.ac.kr
Homepage: https://hmc.unist.ac.kr
Competition Management
- 2026 IFAC Roboracer Grand Prix, Busan, Korea (upcoming)
- 2026 Roboracer PNU-HYUNSONG Championship, Busan, Korea
- 2025 4th Korea Championship, Incheon, Korea
- 2024 3rd Korea Championship, Jeju, Korea
- 2024 IV Roboracer Grand Prix, Jeju, Korea
- 2023 2nd Korea Championship, Yeosu, Korea
Resources
🔗 UNICORN Racing GitHub
github.com/HMCL-UNIST/UNICORN
🏠 HMCL Homepage
hmc.unist.ac.kr
📺 HMCL YouTube
youtube.com/@hmcl-nd9bj
Contact
Lab Address
112-i104, 50, UNIST-gil, Eonyang-eup, Ulju-gun, Ulsan, Republic of Korea