Dran Computer Science Lab http://drancom.com/ ko Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:52:19 -0400 Tattertools 1.1.0.2 : Friends Byoungkwon (Kwon) An http://drancom.com/entry/ByoungkwonAlbertAn <p><font color="#0000ff" size="5"><font color="#000000"><strong>Byoungkwon (Kwon) An<br /></strong></font><font size="5"><font size="4"><br /><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/9954047929.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="User inserted image" /></div><br /><br /><font color="#000000"><font size="2">32-377 MIT<br />32 Vassar st.<br />Cambridge, MA 02139<br /><br />e-mail: dran at csail.mit.edu<br />web: <a href="http://www.drancom.com/">www.drancom.com</a><br /><br /><a href="http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" size="2">Distributed Robotics Lab</font></a><br /><a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab<br /></font></a><a href="http://www.mit.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">MIT</font><br /></a></font><br /></font></font></font><a href="http://www.drancom.com/0_bkan_cv.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" size="4"><strong>CV</strong></font></a></font><br /><br /><font color="#000000">*. 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)</font><br /><br /><a name="projects"><br /><font color="#000000"><strong><font size="4">Projects</font></strong><br /></font></a><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.drancom.com/0_bkan_projects.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff"><font size="3"><strong>Descriptions for Projects (pdf)</strong></font><br /></font></a><br /><a href="http://www.drancom.com/entry/Project01-01"><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/5309448684.jpg" width="140" height="78" alt="EM-Cube" /></div><br /></a><font size="4"><font size="4"><font color="#0000ff" size="3"><font size="4"><a href="http://www.drancom.com/entry/Project01-01#em-cube3"><font size="4"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">EM-Cube 3 : Cube-shaped Self-Reconfigurable Robots</font></font></a></font></font></font></font><font size="4"><a href="http://www.drancom.com/entry/Project01-01"><font size="4"><font color="#0000ff" size="3"><br /></font></font></a></font></font></p> <p><font color="#000000"><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/8508036104.jpg" width="140" height="146" alt="TR series" /></div><br /><br /><font size="4"><font size="4"><font color="#0000ff" size="3"><font size="4"><a href="http://www.drancom.com/entry/Project01-01#tf-series"><font size="4"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">TF-series : Micromachined Cube-shaped Self-Reconfigurable Robots</font></font></a></font></font></font></font><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/9650760896.jpg" width="140" height="201" alt="ME-Cube" /></div><br /><br /><br /><font size="4"><a href="http://www.drancom.com/entry/Project01-01#me-cube2"><font size="4"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">ME-Cube 2 : Cube-shaped Self-Reconfigurable Robots<br /></font></font></a></font><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.drancom.com/entry/Project01-01"><font color="#000000"><br /></font></a><font size="4"><font color="#000000"><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/5839325340.jpg" width="140" height="200" alt="EM-Cube1" /></div><a href="http://www.drancom.com/entry/Project01-01"><font size="4"><font color="#000000"><strong><br /></strong></font><font size="3"><br /></font></font></a></font></font></font><font size="4"><a href="http://www.drancom.com/entry/Project01-01#em-cube1"><font size="4"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">EM-Cube 1 : Cube-shaped Self-Reconfigurable Robots<br /></font></font></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/4282329305.jpg" width="140" height="101" alt="DTB Artificial Nervous System" /></div><br /></strong></font><font color="#000000" size="3"><a href="http://www.drancom.com/entry/Project02-01"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">Distributed-Table-based Artificial Nervous System<br /></font></a><br /><br /></font></font><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><strong><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/8094853549.jpg" width="140" height="116" alt="FET Transistor Nerve-Computer Interface" /></div><br /></strong></font><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.drancom.com/entry/Project03-01"><font color="#0000ff"><font size="3">Field Effect Transistor Nerve-Computer Interface (Patent:10-0765960, KR)</font><br /></font><br /><br /></a><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/4738868558.jpg" width="140" height="156" alt="User inserted image" /></div><br /><br />Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)<br />(Nanophysics Lab., Korea University)</font></font></font><font color="#000000"><br /><br /><br /><br /><font size="3">e-DNA and Stem Cell Algorithm : Transfomation Algorithm for &gt;1000 microscale regular solid shaped Self-Reconfigurable Robots </font><font color="#000000"><br /></font><br /><font color="#0000ff" size="3"><a href="http://www.drancom.com/0_bkan_projects.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">Descriptions for Projects (pdf)</font></a><br /><br /></font><a name="publications"><br /><strong>Publications<br /></strong></a></font></font><font color="#000000" size="2"><a name="publications"><br /></a></font></p><p><font color="#000000" size="2"><a name="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 </a><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/06/24/0914069107" target="_blank">url</a> <a href="http://www.drancom.com/paper/2010/paper1_programmableMatterByFolding.pdf" target="_blank">pdf</a><br /></font></p><p><font color="#000000" size="2"><a name="publications">Byoungkwon An, Daniela Rus, "Making Shapes from Modules by Magnification," Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2010 </a><a href="http://www.drancom.com/paper/2010/paper2_magnification.pdf" target="_blank">pdf</a><br /></font></p><p><font><strong><font><a name="publications"></a></font></strong></font><a name="publications"><font color="#000000" size="2">ByoungKwon An, "</font></a><font color="#000000" size="2"><a href="../../../paper/2008/bkan_icra2008_em-cube.pdf" target="_blank">EM-Cube: Cube-shaped, Self-Reconfigurable Robots Sliding on Structure Surface</a><a name="publications">," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008 &nbsp;</a><a href="../../../paper/2008/bkan_icra2008_em-cube.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">pdf</font></a></font></p><p><a name="publications"><br /></a><font><strong><font><a name="publications"></a></font></strong></font></p><p><font><strong><font><a name="publications"><font size="4"><strong><font color="#000000">Media <br /></font></strong></font></a></font></strong></font></p><p><font></font></p>June 28 2010 - Programmable Matter by folding featured in <a href="http://cp2test.msnbc.msn.com/id/37982669/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/" target="_blank">NBC</a>, <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100628/full/news.2010.317.html" target="_blank">Nature news</a>, and <a href="http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&amp;hl=en&amp;rlz=1G1GGLQ_KOKR315&amp;=&amp;q=programmable+matter+folding&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=g-p3&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=CB8D3MphtTPO_IJXggwTHj_j2BQAAAKoEBU_Q84Mc" target="_blank">100+ media</a>. <br /><br />Apr 2008 - EM-Cube featured in <a href="http://imnews.imbc.com/replay/nwtoday/article/2147302_5782.html" target="_blank">MBC </a>and <a href="http://news.search.naver.com/search.naver?ie=utf8&amp;se=0&amp;mobile=0&amp;tx=&amp;where=news&amp;query=%EC%95%88%EB%B3%91%EA%B6%8C+MIT&amp;sm=tab_tmr&amp;frm=mr" target="_blank">7+ media</a>. <br /><p><a name="publications"><font size="4"><strong><font color="#000000"><br /></font></strong></font></a></p><p><a name="publications"><font size="4"><strong><font color="#000000">Thesis <br /><br /></font></strong><font color="#000000"><font size="2">Bachelor of Science in Physics, February 2004<br />Thesis : "Scaling of Dynamic Surface Growth Model on Fractal Dimension"</font><br /><br /></font><strong><font color="#000000">Patents <br /></font></strong><br /><font size="2"><font color="#000000">ByoungKwon An, "FET (Field Effect Transistor) Nerve Electronic Chip", 10-0765960, KR <br /></font></font></font><br /><br /><font size="4"><strong><font color="#000000">Snowboard<br /></font></strong><br /></font><font color="#000000"><font size="2">Certified Snowboard Instructor, Canadian Association of Snowboard Instructors(Level 1)<br /></font></font><br /><br /><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/8661438310.jpg" width="400" height="302" alt="User inserted image" /></div></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p> <div style="text-align: right;"><br />(last update : 2010. 8. 19)</div> Byoungkwon (Kwon) An (Byoungkwon An) http://drancom.com/1 http://drancom.com/entry/ByoungkwonAlbertAn#entry1comment Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:37:04 -0400 Cube-shaped Generic Distributed Self-Reconfigurable Robots http://drancom.com/entry/Project01-01 <P><FONT size=5><FONT color=#000000><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>Cube-shaped Self-Reconfigurable Robots</STRONG></FONT><A href="http://drancom.com/0_bkan_1_cube-shaped_robots.pdf" target=_blank><br /><FONT color=#0000ff size=3><STRONG>Description for project, pdf</STRONG></FONT> </A></FONT></FONT><br /><A name=em-cube3><br /><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=6><STRONG>&lt; EM-Cube 3 &gt; <br /></STRONG></FONT><br /></FONT><FONT size=6><FONT size=3><FONT color=#0000ff><U><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/9363951037.jpg" width="500" height="371" alt="EM-Cube 3" /></div><br /></U><FONT color=#0000ff size=3><STRONG><A href="http://drancom.com/0_bkan_1_cube-shaped_robots.pdf" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff size=3><STRONG>Description for project, pdf</STRONG></FONT></A><U><FONT size=5> <br /></FONT><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="400" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.drancom.com/emcube.swf"> <param name="quality" value="high"><embed src="http://www.drancom.com/emcube.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br /><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/2648339610.jpg" width="250" height="167" alt="" /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></U></STRONG></FONT><br /><br /><FONT size=4><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG><FONT size=4><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>Locomotion video </STRONG></FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.drancom.com/video/0_bkan_emcu_loc.avi" target=_blank>(400kb,DivX)</A><br /></STRONG></FONT></FONT><br /><A name=tf-series><br /></FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT size=6><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>&lt; Microscale TF series &gt;</STRONG></FONT></FONT><br /><br /><FONT color=#000000><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/4577474405.jpg" width="500" height="370" alt="TR-series" /></div><br /><U><FONT size=3><FONT color=#0000ff><br /><FONT color=#0000ff size=3><STRONG><A href="http://drancom.com/0_bkan_1_cube-shaped_robots.pdf" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff size=3><STRONG>Description for project, pdf</STRONG></FONT><FONT size=5> </FONT><br /></A></STRONG></FONT><br /></FONT></FONT></U><br /><br /><A name=me-cube2><br /><STRONG><FONT size=6>&lt;ME-Cube 2&gt;</FONT></STRONG><br /><br /><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/2164107944.jpg" width="500" height="343" alt="ME-Cube 2" /></div><br /><br /><br /><U><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=3><STRONG><A href="http://drancom.com/0_bkan_1_cube-shaped_robots.pdf" target=_blank><U><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=3><STRONG>Description for project, pdf</STRONG></FONT><FONT size=5> </FONT></FONT></U><br /></A></STRONG></FONT></FONT></U><br /><A name=em-cube1><br /><STRONG><FONT size=6>&lt;EM-Cube 1&gt;</FONT></STRONG></FONT></P><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/6819513089.jpg" width="500" height="379" alt="EM-Cube 1" /></div><br /><br /><U><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=3><STRONG><A href="http://drancom.com/0_bkan_1_cube-shaped_robots.pdf" target=_blank><U><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=3><STRONG>Description for project, pdf</STRONG></FONT><FONT size=5> </FONT></FONT></U><br /></A></STRONG></FONT></FONT></U><br /><br /> <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">(last updated : 2007. 07. 28)</DIV> Projects (Byoungkwon An) http://drancom.com/3 http://drancom.com/entry/Project01-01#entry3comment Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:47:12 -0500 Distributed-Table-based (DTB) Artificial Nervous System http://drancom.com/entry/Project02-01 <STRONG><FONT color=#000000 size=5>Distributed-Table-based (DTB) <br />Artificial Nervous System</FONT></STRONG><A href="http://www.drancom.com/0_bkan_2_artificial_nervous_system.pdf" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff><br /><br /><FONT size=4><STRONG>One-page Description (pdf)</STRONG></FONT></FONT><FONT size=4><STRONG> </STRONG></FONT></A><br /><br /><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/3512165470.jpg" width="500" height="383" alt="DTB Artificial Nervous System" /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">(last updated : 2007. 7. 28)</DIV> Projects (Byoungkwon An) http://drancom.com/4 http://drancom.com/entry/Project02-01#entry4comment Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:47:02 -0500 Field Effect Transistor Nerve-Computer Interface http://drancom.com/entry/Project03-01 <P><FONT size=5><STRONG><FONT color=#000000>Field Effect Transistor Nerve-Computer Interface</FONT><br /></STRONG></FONT><br /><br /><A href="http://www.drancom.com/0_bkan_3_nerve-computer_interface.pdf" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff size=3><STRONG>One-page Description, pdf</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT size=3><STRONG> </STRONG></FONT></P> <P><div class="imageblock left" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img src="http://drancom.com/attach/1/8508201517.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="FET Nerve-Computer Interface" /></div></P><br /> <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">(last updated: 2007. 7. 28)</DIV> Projects (Byoungkwon An) http://drancom.com/5 http://drancom.com/entry/Project03-01#entry5comment Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:13:43 -0500