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 
- Accomplishing high-level tasks with modular robots, Jing, G. | Tosun, T. | Yim, M. | Kress-Gazit, H., Autonomous Robots, 2018
- Variable Topology Truss: Hardware Overview, Reconfiguration Planning and Locomotion, Jeong, S. | Kim, B. | Park, S. | Park, E. | Spinos, A. | Carroll, D. | Tsabedze, T. | Weng, Y. | Seo, T. | Yim, M. | Park, F.C. | Kim, J., 2018 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, UR 2018, 2018
- Stakeholders’ Perceptions Sought to Inform the Development of a Low-Cost Mobile Robot for Older Adults: A Qualitative Descriptive Study, Sefcik, J.S. | Johnson, M.J. | Yim, M. | Lau, T. | Vivio, N. | Mucchiani, C. | Cacchione, P.Z., Clinical Nursing Research, 2018
- Scalability of cyclic control without blade pitch actuators, Paulos, J. | Yim, M., AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, 2018, 2018
- Modular robot connector area of acceptance from configuration space obstacles, Eckenstein, N. | Yim, M., IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2017