Mark Yim
Professor and Director of Integrated Product Design
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM)
Honors and Awards: Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching - 2009
Research Expertise: Robotics | Mechanical Systems | Mechanical Design
Mark's research interests began with modular robots that are made up of identical active components that can be arranged to form many different configurations, ranging from a snake robot to a humanoid to a 17 legged centipede. These systems can also self-reconfigure, changing the robot's shape to suit the task. In addition to self-reconfiguring and self-assembling robots, Mark has also started work on flying robots, and task specification, working to figure out how to specify a task so that a robot configuration can optimally satisfy that task.
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Education:
PhD Mechanical Engineering 1994 - Stanford University
MS Mechanical Engineering 1989 - Stanford University
BS Engineering Mechanics 1987 - Johns Hopkins University
Recent Publications 
- Design and characterization of the EP-Face connector, Tosun, T. | Davey, J. | Liu, C. | Yim, M., IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016
- A theory on grasping objects using effectors with curved contact surfaces and its application to whole-arm grasping, Seo, J. | Yim, M. | Kumar, V., International Journal of Robotics Research, 2016
- Design of a spherical robot arm with the Spiral Zipper prismatic joint, Collins, F. | Yim, M., Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2016
- Assembly sequence planning for constructing planar structures with rectangular modules, Seo, J. | Yim, M. | Kumar, V., Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2016
- Friction binding study and remedy design for tethered search and rescue robots, Specian, A. | Yim, M., SSRR 2015 - 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2016