Myun Joong Hwang, PhD

 

 

 

 

Phone: 1-216-310-0779

 

Research Associate at MeRCIS Lab

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

E-mail: mjhwang@case.edu

       hwangmj@gmail.com     

 

Case Western Reserve University

                                                                                                                                                                                      July 1, 2009

 

Education

Mar. 2003 – Aug. 2007

Ph.D. in Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Korea

Thesis : "Motion Planning of Bimanual Robotic Assembly"

Advisor: Doo Yong. Lee

Dissertation Committee: Doo Yong Lee (chair), Pyung-Hun Chang, Jun Ho Oh, Youngjin Park, Sunghee Choi

Mar. 2001 – Feb. 2003

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Korea

Thesis : "Compliant Motion Planning of Two-Arm Robot via Human Demonstration"

Advisor: Doo Yong Lee

Mar. 1997 – Feb. 2001

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Korea

Mar. 1995 – Feb. 1997

Gyeonggi Science High School

 

Research Experience

Jan. 2008 – present

 

 

Sep. 2007 – Nov. 2008

Research Associate at MeRCIS Lab. (Prof. M. Cenk Cavusoglu)

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Korea

Sep. 2007 – Feb. 2008

Part-time Instructor at Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Hannam University, Daejeon, Korea

- Introduction to Robotics

- Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering and Electronics

May 2005 – Jul. 2005

Visiting Scholar at Robotics Lab. (Prof. James E. Bobrow)

Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,

University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Research subject : "Motion planning of bimanual robotic task"

Jan. 2001

Research Student at Electrical Lab.,

Korea Delphi Automotive Systems Corporation, Daegu, Korea

Research subject : "Research on position control of stepping motor"

 

Awards and Honors

Jan. 2008 – Dec. 2008

Grant from Korea Research Foundation (KRF-2007-D000012)

Aug. 2004

Excellent Teaching Assistant Award from Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST

"Applied Electronics (Professor: Doo Yong Lee)", Spring semester, 2004.

Feb. 2001

Creative Undergraduate Research Award with Scholarship from KAIST

"Study on Dual Peg-in-Hole (Advisor: Prof. Doo Yong Lee)", 2001.

Mar. 1997 – Aug. 2007

Full Scholarship from Government.

Feb. 1997

One Year Earlier Graduation, Gyeonggi Science High School

 

 

Teaching Assistant Experience

Sep. 2006 – Dec. 2006

Modeling and Control of Engineering Systems (Prof. Doo Yong Lee)

Mar. 2006 – Jun. 2006

Applied Electronics (Prof. Jung Kim)

Sep. 2005 – Dec. 2005

Introduction to Robotics (Prof. Doo Yong Lee)

Mar. 2004 – Jun. 2004

Applied Electronics (Prof. Doo Yong Lee)

Sep. 2003 – Dec. 2003

Automatic Control (Prof. Doo Yong Lee)

Mar. 2003 – Jun. 2003

Applied Electronics (Prof. Doo Yong Lee)

 

Research Interests

- Image-guided robotic system for small animal biopsy

- Motion planning and control of bimanual robot (dual arm manipulator)

- Adaptive modeling and force control of robotic task

- Medical robotics, Surgical robot

 

Patent

[P-1] S. H. Han, G. J. Woo, D. Y. Lee, M. J. Hwang, H. R. Jung, J. U. Jung, "Welding Simulator," Korea, no. 10-0876425, 2008.

 

 

Selected Publications

International Journal

[IJ-1] M. J. Hwang, D. Y. Lee, and S. Y. Chung, "Motion Planning of Bimanual Robot Using Adaptive Model of Assembly," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals, vol. E91-A, no.12, pp.3749-3756, Dec. 2008.

 

International Conference

[IC-10] M. J. Hwang, Ozkan Bebek, Fan Liang, Baowei Fei and M. Cenk Cavusoglu, "Kinematic Calibration of a Parallel Robot for Small Animal Biopsies, " To appear in proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) , St. Louis, MO, USA, October 11-15, 2009.

[IC-9] Ozkan Bebek, M. J. Hwang, Baowei Fei and M. Cenk Cavusoglu, "Design of a Small Animal Biopsy Robot, " Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society , pp. 5601-5604, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 20-24, 2008.

[IC-8] M .J. Hwang, N. S. Park, and D. Y. Lee, "Motion Planning Based on Multiple Kinematic Performance Measures for Bimanual Robotic Tasks," Proceedings of the International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems 2007, pp. 572-577, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 17-20, 2007.

[IC-7] S. J. Kwak, M. J. Hwang, and D. Y. Lee, "Optimal Post-Process of Industrial Solid Freeform Fabrication System," Proceedings of the International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems 2007, pp. 2578-2582, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 17-20, 2007.

[IC-6] M. J. Hwang, D. Y. Lee, and S. Y. Chung, "Motion Planning of Bimanual Robot for Assembly," Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 240-245, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 7-10, 2007.

[IC-5] D. Y. Lee, S. Y. Chung, M. J. Hwang, and N. S. Park, "Adaptive Modeling of Assembly using Augmented Petri Nets," Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, pp. 3600-3605, New York, NY, USA, July 11-13, 2007.

[IC-4] M. J. Hwang, N. S. Park, S. J. Kwak, and D. Y. Lee, "Task-Compatibility-Based Motion Planning for Bimanual Assembly," Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 4481-4486, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 8-11, 2006.

[IC-3] M. J. Hwang, S. Y. Chung, and D. Y. Lee, "Assembly Approach for Bimanual Robots," Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, pp. 1482-1487, Monterey, CA, USA, July 24-28, 2005.

[IC-2] M. J. Hwang, S. Y. Chung, and D. Y. Lee, "Compliant Motion Planning for Two Manipulators via Human Demonstration," Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, pp. 423-428, Kobe, Japan, July 20-24, 2003.

[IC-1] S. Y. Chung, M. J. Hwang, and D. Y. Lee, "Multi-Step Event Identification for Assembly in Unstructured Environment" Proceedings of the 2002 FIRA Robot World Congress, pp. 198-203, Seoul, Korea, May 26-29, 2002.

 

Domestic Journal (in Korean)

[DJ-2] M. J. Hwang, S. Y. Chung, and D. Y. Lee, "Motion Planning of Bimanual Robot using Bimanual Task Compatibility," Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems vol. 14, no. 7, July 2008.

[DJ-1] S. Y. Chung, M. J. Hwang, and D. Y. Lee, "On-line Modeling of Robot Assembly with Uncertainty," Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems Engineering, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 878-886, October 2004.

 

Domestic Conference (in Korean)

[DC-4] S. J. Kwak, M. J. Hwang, N. S. Park, D. Y. Lee, and J. H. Lim, "Optimal Layering Thickness for Industrial SFFS," Proceedings of Korea Society of Mechanical Engineering Fall Conference, pp. 1-6, Muju, Korea, Nov. 1-3, 2006.

[DC-3] D. Y. Lee, S. J. Kwak, M. J. Hwang, N. S. Park, and Y. J. Baek, "Optimal Process Control of Industrial SFFS," Proceedings of Korea Society of Mechanical Engineering Spring Conference, pp. 636-641, Jeju, Korea, June 7-9, 2006.

[DC-2] D. Y. Lee, S. J. Kwak, M. J. Hwang, N. S. Park, S. J. Kim, and D. S. Kim, "Temperature Control of Build-room for SLS Process of Industrial SFFS (Sold Freeform Fabrication System)," Proceedings of Korea Society of Mechanical Engineering Spring Conference, pp. 1484-1487, Busan, Korea, May 25-27, 2005.

[DC-1] N. S. Park, M. J. Hwang, and D. Y. Lee, "PC-based Controller for Industrial Solid Freeform Fabrication System," Proceedings of Korea Society of Precision Engineering Fall Conference, pp. 73-77, Busan, Korea, Oct. 21-22, 2004.