Publications

2008

White, P.J., Yim, M., "Reliable External Actuation for Extending Reachable Robotic Modular Self-reconfiguration", Proc. of Intl. Symp. on Experimental Robotics, Athens Greece, 2008, TO APPEAR
Park, M., Chitta, S., Teichman, A., and Yim, M.,``Automatic Configuration Recognition Methods in Modular Robots,'' International Journal or Robotics Research, Vol. 27, No. 3-4, March/April 2008, pp.403-421, 2008

2007

Yim, M., Shen, W., Salemi, B., Rus, D., Moll, M., Lipson, H., Klavins, E. and Chirikjian, G. (2007) ``Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot Systems; Challenges and Opportunities for the Future,'' IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, March, 2007
Yim, M., Shen, W., Salemi, B., Rus, D., Moll, M., Lipson, H., Klavins, E. and Chirikjian, G. ``Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot Systems; Challenges and Opportunities for the Future,'' IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine to appear, March, 2007 [IEEE Xplore]
Sastra, J., Chitta, S. and Yim, M.,``Dynamic Rolling for a Modular Loop Robot,'' Intl. J. of Robotics Research Invited, Jan. 2007 [pdf]
Yim, M., Shirmohammadi, B., Sastra, J., Park, M., Dugan, M. and Taylor, C.J., ``Robustness and self-repair in modular robots'', Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Intl.Conf.on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Diego CA, 2007 [IEEE Xplore]
Yim, M., Shirmohammadi, B., Sastra, J., Park, M., Dugan, M. and Taylor, C.J., ``Towards Robotic Self-reassembly After Explosion'', Video Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Intl.Conf.on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Diego CA, 2007 [pdf]
Shirmohammadi, B., Taylor, C.J., Yim, M., Sastra, J., and Park, M., "Using Smart Cameras to Localize Self-Assembling Modular Robots,'' Proc. of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras ICDSC07, 2007 [pdf]
Yim, M., Shirmohammadi, B. and Benelli, D., ``Amphibious Modular Robot Astrobiologist,'' Proc. of SPIE, Unmanned Systems Technology IX Vol. 6561, April 2007.
White P. J., Yim M. (2007), "Scalable Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots Using External Actuation", IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS07), San Diego, 2007 [pdf]

2006

Yim, M., ``Earthbound Robotic Astrobiology: First Experiments,'' Proc. of 3rd Intl. Conf. on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI 2006), Seoul Korea, 2006
Park, M., Chitta, S., Teichman, A., and Yim, M.,``Automatic Configuration Recognition Methods in Modular Robots,'' Intl. J. of Robotics Research Invited, Nov. 2006 [pdf]
Sastra, J., Chitta, S., and Yim, M., ``Dynamic Rolling for a Modular Loop Robot,'' Proc. of Intl. Symp. on Experimental Robotics, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, 2006 [pdf]
Yim, M., ``Astronauts Must Program Robots,'' Proc.~AAAI Spring Symposium: To Boldly Go Where No Human-Robot Team Has Gone Before, Stanford CA, 2006
Yim, M., Hinden, R., Conley, C., Wang, C.K., Roufas, K., Eldershaw, C., ``Open Loop Climbing with Modular Robots,'' Video Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Orlando, FL 2006

2005

White, P.J., V. Zykov, J. Bongard and H. Lipson, ``Three dimensional stochastic reconfiguration of modular robots," in Proc. of Robotics Science and Systems. Cambridge, MA, 2005. [pdf]
Yim, M., Eldershaw, C., Zhang, Y., Duff, D., ``Limbless Conforming Gaits with Modular Robots'' To be published in Experimental Robotics IX, Advanced Robotics Series, eds, Ang, M.H., Jr. and Khatib, O. Spinger, 2005

2004

Zhang, Y., Golovinsky, A., Yim, M., and Eldershaw, C., ``An XML-based scripting language for chain-type modular robotic systems,'' 8th Conf. on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2004
Zhang, Y., Yim, M., Ackerson, L., Duff, D. and Eldershaw, C., ``STAM: A system of tracking and mapping in real environments,'' IEEE J. on Wireless Communications Vol.11, No.6, pp 87-96, Dec. 2004 [IEEE Xplore]
Golovinsky, A., Yim, M., Zhang, Y., Eldershaw, C. and Duff, D., ``PolyBot and PolyKineticTM System: A Modular Robotic Platform for Education,'' Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA), New Orleans, April 26-30, 2004
White, P.J., Kopanski, K., Lipson, H., "Stochastic Self-Reconfigurable Cellular Robotics," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2888-2893 Vol.3, 2004 [pdf]

2003

Zhang, Y., Yim, M., Eldershaw, C., Duff, D. and Roufas, K., ``Scalable and reconfigurable configurations and locomotion gaits for chain-type modular reconfigurable robots'', Proc. of the IEEE Symp. on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA), Japan, 2003
Yim, M., Eldershaw, C., Zhang, Y. and Duff, D., ``Self-Reconfigurable Robot Systems: PolyBot,'' J. of the Robotics Society of Japan Vol.21, No.8, Nov. 2003
Zhang, Y., Roufas, K., Eldershaw C., Yim, M., and Duff, D., ``Sensor Computation in Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots'', Experimental Robotics VIII, Advanced Robotics Series, Bruno Siciliano Ed. Springer, 2003 [pdf]
Zhang, Y., Yim, M., Eldershaw, C., Duff, D. and Roufas, K., ``Phase Automata: a programming model of locomotion gaits for scalable chain-type modular robots'', Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, 2003 [IEEE Xplore]
Eldershaw, C., Yim, M., Zhang, Y., Roufas, K. and Duff, D., ``Motion planning with narrow C-space passages'', Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. 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 [pdf]
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. [pdf]

2002

Zhang, Y., Yim, M., Roufas, K., Eldershaw, C., and Duff, D., ``Attribute/Service Model: Design Patterns for Distributed Coordination of Sensors, Actuators and Tasks'', Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Embedded System Codesign (ESCODES), San Jose, CA, Sept. 24, 2002 [pdf]
Yim, M., Zhang, Y., Roufas, K., Duff, D., and Eldershaw, C., ``Connecting and Disconnecting for Chain Self-Reconfiguration with PolyBot,'' IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Special Issue on Self-Reconfigurable Robots Vol.7, No.4, pp 431-441, Dec. 2002 [IEEE Xplore]
Yim, M., Duff, D.G. and Roufas, K.D, ``Walk on the wild side,'' IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Special Issue on Distributed Robotics, Vol.8, No.4, Dec. 2002 [IEEE Xplore]
Agrawal, S.K., Kumar, S., and Yim, M., ``Polyhedral Single Degree-of-freedom Expanding Structures: Design and Prototypes,'' ASME J. of Mechanical Design, Vol.124, No.3, pp 361-590, Sept. 2002 [IEEE Xplore]
Yim, M., Zhang, Y. and Duff, D., ``Modular Reconfigurable Robots, Machines that shift their shape to suit the task at hand,'' IEEE Spectrum Magazine cover article, Feb. 2002
Zhang, Y., Eldershaw, C., Yim, M., Roufas, K. and Duff, D., ``A Platform for studying locomotion systems: Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots'', Proc. of NIST workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS), Gaithersburg, MD, Aug. 13-15, 2002
Eldershaw, C., Yim, M., Duff, D., Roufas, K. and Zhang, Y., ``Modular self reconfigurable robots'', Proc. of Robotics for Future Land Warfare Workshop, DSTO Edinburgh, Australia, May 23-24, 2002. [pdf]
Vassilvitskii, S., Suh, J.W. and Yim, M., ''A Complete, Local and Parallel Reconfiguration Algorithm for Cube Style Modular Robots'' Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA), Washington D.C., May 11-15, 2002 [pdf]
Vassilvitskii, S., Kubica, J., Rieffel, E., Suh, J.W. and Yim, M., ''On the General Reconfiguration Problem for Expanding Cube Style Modular Robots'' Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA), Washington D.C., May 11-15, 2002 [pdf]
Suh, J.W., Homans, S.B., and Yim,M., ''Telecubes: Mechanical Design of a Module for Self-Reconfigurable Robotics'' Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA), Washington D.C., May 11-15, 2002 [pdf]
Zhang, Y., Roufas, K., Yim, M., and Eldershaw, C., ``Massively Distributed Control Nets for Modular, Self-Reconfigurable Robots,'' Proc. of AAAI Spring Symposium Series, March 25-27 2002 [pdf]

2001

Yim, M., Duff, D.G., Roufas, K., Zhang, Y. and Eldershaw, C., ``Evolution of PolyBot: A modular reconfigurable robot'', Proc. of COE/Super-Mechano-Systems Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, Nov., 2001 (invited) [pdf]
Roufas, K., Zhang, Y., Duff, D. and Yim, M,``Six Degree of Freedom Sensing for Docking Using IR RED Emitters and Receivers'', Experimental Robotics VII, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 271, eds Daniela Rus and Sanjiv Singh, Springer, 2001 [pdf]
Nguyen, A., Guibas L.J., Yim, M., ``Controlled Module Density Helps Reconfiguration Planning,'' Algorithmic and Computational Robotics: New Directions: The Fourth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations, (WAFR) eds Donald, B; Lynch, K; Rus, D; A.K.Peters, 2001 [pdf]
Yim, M., Zhang, Y., Lamping, J., Mao, E., ``Distributed Control for 3D Shape Metamorphosis,'' Autonomous Robots, Vol.10, No.1 pp 41-56, Jan. 2001 [pdf]
Zhang, Y., Roufas, K.D. and Yim, M. ``Software architecture for modular self-reconfigurable robots'' Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Maui, HI, Oct. 29 - Nov. 3, 2001 [pdf]
Yim, M, Duff, D.G., and Zhang, Y., ``Closed-chain motion with large mechanical advantage'' Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Maui, HI, Oct. 29 - Nov. 3, 2001 [pdf]
Yim, M., Roufas, K., Duff, D., Zhang, Y., and Homans, S., ``Modular Reconfigurable Robots in Space Applications'' Proc. of the 10th Intl. Conf. on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 22-25, 2001 [pdf]
Agrawal, S.K., Kumar, S., Yim, M. and Suh, J.W., ``Polyhedral Single Degree-of-freedom Expanding Structures,'' Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA), Seoul, Korea, May 21-26, 2001 [pdf]
Yim, M., Homans, S. and Roufas, K., ``Climbing with Snake-like Robots'' Proc. of the IFAC Workshop on Mobile Robot Technology, Jejudo, Korea , May 21-22, 2001 [pdf]
Agrawal, S.K., Kissner, L. and Yim, M., ``Joint Solutions of Many Degrees-of-freedom Systems Using Dextrous Workspaces'', Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA), Seoul, Korea May 21-26, 2001 [pdf]
Eldershaw, C. and Yim, M., ``Motion planning of legged vehicles in an unstructured environment,'' Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA), Seoul, Korea, May 21-26, 2001 [pdf]
Suh, J.W., Yim, M., and Homans, S., ``Design Tradeoffs for a Modular, Self-reconfigurable Robot, The Mechanical Design of Telecubes,'' Proc. of Workshop on Self-reconfigurable Robots, at ICRA 2001, Seoul, Korea, May 22, 2001 (invited)

2000

Yim, M., Goldberg, D. and Casal, A., ``Connectivity Planning for Closed-Chain Reconfiguration,'' SPIE, Sensor Fusion and Decentralized control in Robotic Systems III Volume 4196, Nov. 2000 [ps]
Yim, M., Reich J., and Berlin, A.A., ``Two Approaches to Distributed Manipulation'' Distributed Manipulation eds Bohringer K., and Choset, H., Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2000 [ps]
Yim, M., Chow, M., and Dunbar B., ``Eat, Sleep Robotics'', Robots for Kids eds Druin, A., Hendler J., Morgan Kaufman publishers Academic Press, 2000
Yim, M., Duff, D.G., Roufas, K.D., and Kissner, L., ``PolyBot: Demonstrations of a modular reconfigurable robot,'' Video Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA) San Francisco, CA, April 24-27, 2000
Yim, M., Duff, D.G., and Roufas, K.D., ``PolyBot: A Modular Reconfigurable Robot,'' Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA) pp. 514-520, San Francisco, CA, April 24-27, 2000 [pdf]
Yim, M., Duff, D.G., and Roufas, K.D., ``Modular Reconfigurable Robots, An Approach To Urban Search and Rescue,'' Proc. of the Human Welfare-friendly Robotic Systems Workshop (HWRS), Taejon, Korea, Jan. 2000 (invited) [pdf]

1999

Casal, A. and Yim, M., ``Self-Reconfiguration Planning For a Class of Modular Robots,'' SPIE Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems II, Sept. 1999 [pdf]
Chase, J., Yim, M., and Berlin, A A. ``Optimal Stabilization of Column Buckling'', ASCE J. of Engineering Mechanics, v125 n9, pp 987-993, Sept. 1999
Chase, J., Yim, M., and Berlin, A., ``Integrated Centering Control of Inertial Actuation Systems,'' Control Engineering Practice v7 n9, pp 1079-1084, 1999
Chase, J., Yim, M., Berlin, A., Olivier, M., MacLean, B., and Jacobsen, S., ``MEMS-Based Control of Structural Dynamic Instability,'' J. of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, v9 n7, pp 547-586, July 1999

1994

Yim, M., ``New Locomotion Gaits,'' Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA) San Diego, CA, 1994 [IEEE Xplore]
Yim, M., ``Locomotion Gaits with Polypod,'' Video Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA) Best Video Award San Diego, CA, 1994

1993

Yim, M., ``A Reconfigurable Modular Robot with Many Modes of Locomotion,'' Proc. of JSME Intl. Conf. on Advanced Mechatronics, Tokyo, Japan, 1993