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Byoungkwon (Kwon) An

32-377 MIT
32 Vassar st.
Cambridge, MA 02139

e-mail: dran at csail.mit.edu
web: www.drancom.com

Distributed Robotics Lab
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
MIT

CV

*. The Dran Computer Science Lab is B. An's private Lab he established with his MSX computer when he was 6 years old. (since 1987)


Projects
Descriptions for Projects (pdf)

EM-Cube 3 : Cube-shaped Self-Reconfigurable Robots

TF-series : Micromachined Cube-shaped Self-Reconfigurable Robots

ME-Cube 2 : Cube-shaped Self-Reconfigurable Robots

EM-Cube 1 : Cube-shaped Self-Reconfigurable Robots

Distributed-Table-based Artificial Nervous System

Field Effect Transistor Nerve-Computer Interface (Patent:10-0765960, KR)

Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
(Nanophysics Lab., Korea University)



e-DNA and Stem Cell Algorithm : Transfomation Algorithm for >1000 microscale regular solid shaped Self-Reconfigurable Robots

Descriptions for Projects (pdf)


Publications

Hawkes, E., An, B., Benbernou, N. M., Tanaka, H., Kim, S., Demaine, E. D., Rus, D., Wood, R. J. "Programmable matter by folding," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010 url pdf

Byoungkwon An, Daniela Rus, "Making Shapes from Modules by Magnification," Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2010 pdf

ByoungKwon An, "EM-Cube: Cube-shaped, Self-Reconfigurable Robots Sliding on Structure Surface," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008  pdf

Media

June 28 2010 - Programmable Matter by folding featured in NBC, Nature news, and 100+ media.

Apr 2008 - EM-Cube featured in MBC and 7+ media.

Thesis

Bachelor of Science in Physics, February 2004
Thesis : "Scaling of Dynamic Surface Growth Model on Fractal Dimension"

Patents

ByoungKwon An, "FET (Field Effect Transistor) Nerve Electronic Chip", 10-0765960, KR


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