Mark Yim

Associate Professor, MEAM

Research Interests

• Modular reconfigurable robots and locomotion, PolyBot.
• MEMS and batch fabrication techniques.
• brute force digital time optimal control.

Representative Publications

• C. Eldershaw, M. Yim, Y. Zhang, K. Roufas and D. Duff, Motion planning with narrow C-space passages, In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS), Las Vegas, 2003.
• Y. Zhang, M. Yim, C. Eldershaw, D. Duff and K. Roufas, Scalable and reconfigurable configurations and locomotion gaits for chain-type modular reconfigurable robots, In IEEE Symposium on computational intelligence in robotics and automation (CIRA), Japan, 2003.
• Zhang, M. Yim, C. Eldershaw, D. Duff and K. Roufas, Phase Automata: a programming model of locomotion gaits for scalable chain-type modular robots, In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS), Las Vegas, 2003.
• M. Yim, Y. Zhang, K. Roufas, D. Duff and C. Eldershaw, Connecting and disconnecting for self-reconfiguration with PolyBot, In IEEE/ASME Transactions on mechatronics, special issue on Information Technology in Mechatronics, 2003
• M. Yim, K. Roufas, D. Duff, Y. Zhang, C. Eldershaw and S. Homans, Modular Reconfigurable Robots in Space Applications, In Autonomous Robot Journal, special issue for Robots in Space, Springer Verlag, 2003.

Contact Information

Office:	229A Towne
Phone:	215-898-5269
Email:	yim at host grasp.upenn.edu
Mail:	Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics University of Pennsylvania 297 Towne Bldg 220 S. 33rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Media Coverage

Technology Review Magazine TR100 Young Innovators award.

Modular Robotics features:

• "Changing Gears", Monuah Janah, Red Herring Magazine August 2000
• "Shape-Shifting Robots", Geoff Burchfield, Quantum ABC Television (Australia) August 17, 2000
• "Robot Watch: Hey PolyBot over here!", Fanella Saunders, Discover Magazine May 2000
• "Shape-Shifting Robots from Xerox", Daniel Sorid, New York Times March 9, 2000
• "Cutting Edge" by Jack P. Smith, ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, November 12, 1999
• "The Shape of Things to Come", by Elisabeth Weise, USA Today, September 29, 1999
• "@discovery.ca", by Alix MacDonald, producer, Discovery Channel Canada, May 13, 1999
• "Robots to the Rescue", by Jane Black, BBC News Online, Sci Tech. April 10, 1999
• "Mobots to the Rescue", by Bob Buderi, UPSIDE Magazine Today, March 12, 1999
• "Smaller Pieces, Smarter Robots", by Bob Sullivan, MSNBC November 27, 1998

• "High Tech Push to Make Small More Beautiful", John Markoff, (front page) New York Times, Jan. 27, 1997
• "Solutions" by Jack P. Smith, ABC World News Tonight July 29, 1997