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Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Kiju Lee

Assistant Professor

Email: kiju.lee@case.edu
Phone: (216)-368-2943
Office Location: Glennan 615B

Kiju Lee received her B.S.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea in 2002, and the M.S.E. and the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2006 and 2008. In 2008, she joined the faculty of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Case Western Reserve University as an assistant professor. Dr. Lee was a recipient of Graduate Research Scholarship from the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation 2003-2005. Her research focuses on robotics and mechatronics including modular robots, theoretical principles and modeling of distributed systems and novel applications of robotics technology. Dr. Lee is the director of the Distributed Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (DIRL) which houses self-sufficient facilities and equipment for research, designing, testing and preliminary manufacturing.


Degrees

  • Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2008

  • M.S.E., Johns Hopkins University, 2006

  • B.S.E., Chung-Ang University, 2002

Research Areas

  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems

  • Modular and Distributed Systems

  • Robotic Self-replication/assembly

Teaching Interests

  • Spring 2009: EMAE 250 Computers in Mechanical Engineering

Articles

  • K. Lee, M. Moses and G.S. Chirikjian, “Robotic Self-Replication in Structured Environments: Physical Demonstrations and Complexity Measures,” International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 27, Issue 3-4, pp. 387-401, March 2008

  • K. Lee and G.S. Chirikjian, “Robotic Self-Replication from Low-Complexity Parts,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Vol. 14, Issue 4, pp. 34-43, December 2007

  • K. Lee, Y. Wang and G.S. Chirikjian, “O(N) Mass Matrix Inversion for Serial Manipulators and Polypeptide Chains using Lie Derivatives,” Robotica, Vol. 25, Issue 6, pp. 739-750, November 2007

  • K. Lee, M. Moses, G.S. Chirikjian, “Robotic Self-Replication in Structured and Adaptable Environments,” Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop on Self-reconfigurable Modular Robots, Philadelphia, August 2006.

  • K. Lee and G.S. Chirikjian, “A New Perspective on O(N) Mass-Matrix Inversion for Serial Revolute Manipulators,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, April 2005, pp. 4722-4726.

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