Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOKR20250113003
- Term of Validity
- 13 January 2025 - 13 January 2026
- Company's Country
- South Korea
- Type of partnership
- Investment agreement
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
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1. Path Planning and Tracking System for Autonomous Tractors
A virtual navigation simulator for autonomous tractors reduces development time and costs.
2. Phase-Patterned Liquid Crystal Elastomer
This elastomer controls transparency, hiding patterns on skin contact and revealing them after cooling, enabling reuse. - Full Description
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The company is a Korean non-profit organization that supports and manages research and development projects conducted by the university, the most prestigious university in Korea, founded in 1946.
The company was established in 2003 to support research and development activities at the university, including funding, intellectual property management, technology transfer, and commercialization. It also operates various programs to promote industry-academia collaboration and encourage entrepreneurship among the university's researchers and students.
In addition to managing intellectual property, the company also provides funding for research projects at the university. The company offers various grant programs to support basic and applied research, as well as programs to encourage interdisciplinary research and international collaboration.
Overall, the company plays a crucial role in promoting research and development activities at the university and facilitating technology transfer between academia and industry. Licensing opportunities (Patent Assignment/Exclusive license/Non-exclusive license) are available for all technologies developed at the university. - Advantages and Innovations
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1. Path Planning and Tracking System for Autonomous Tractors Using Virtual Navigation Devices
Develops a hardware system for autonomous agricultural machinery with GPS and IMU-based sensor fusion, achieving centimeter-level positioning accuracy for farming operations.
Offers a patented 3D farming tractor simulator (exhibited at CES 2024) to predict and analyze autonomous machinery performance in virtual environments, ensuring environmental suitability and practicality.
Creates a device and method for precise automatic turning in headlands, enabling machines like rice transplanters to follow paths while compensating for signal delays, enhancing efficiency.
Designs path generation algorithms for irregular paddy fields, supporting straight-line driving, headland turning, and circular navigation, boosting productivity and reducing labor.
2. Phase-Patterned Liquid Crystal Elastomer
Develops elastomers to control isotropic phases and transparency by adjusting laser variables, enabling customizable optical and mechanical properties.
Uses secondary cross-linking in tensioned or heated states to control elastomer phases for enhanced functionality.
Achieves phase transitions at 34°C, enabling patterns to disappear on skin contact and reappear when cooled, allowing reuse.
Demonstrates remote encoding of patterns with light and mechanical movement, applicable in actuators, soft robotics, sensors, optical devices, and damping systems. - Stage of Development
- Lab tested
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- IPR status
- IPR granted
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
- The company always keep licensing opportunities open for passionate partners. The company eagerly awaits contact from companies interested in their technology and seeks to collaborate through various partnership programs, such as technology transfer and joint research
- Type and Size of Partner
- Big company
- SME 11-49
- SME 50 - 249
- Type of partnership
- Investment agreement
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Research and development cooperation agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 07001001 - Agriculture Machinery / Technology
- Market keywords
- 03008004 - Other electronics related (including alarm systems)
- Targeted countries
- All countries