Kok-Meng Lee
Professor
Education
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985
- S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982
- B.S., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1980
Research Areas and Descriptors
Background
In 1979 Dr. Lee conducted radiation research as an undergraduate assistant at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he modeled and simulated the nongray particulate radiation in an isothermal cylindrical medium. At MIT, he designed high-performance fluidic amplifiers and fluid signal transmission systems and investigated analytically and experimentally the effects of temperature changes on fluid power control systems for flight backup control applications. Dr. Lee began at Tech in 1985 as an Assistant Professor.
Research
Since 1985, Dr. Lee's interest in dexterous actuators and sensors for high-precision motion control systems and manufacturing automation has led to some of the first detailed studies on the creation of a three degrees-of-freedom ball-joint-like variable-reluctance spherical motor and a means to provide noncontact direct sensing of roll, yaw, and pitch motion in a single joint. He then developed a flexible integrated vision system for real-time, multi-degrees-of-freedom motion control systems. His vision-based motion control research has found several unique manufacturing automation applications, including highprecision servotrack writing, robotic pickup of moving objects, automated transfer of live broilers to moving shackles, and the automated de-boning process in poultry processing applications. Dr. Lee's work has been sponsored by Maxtor Corporation, Lucent Technologies, the U. S. Poultry and Eggs Association, and the Georgia Agricultural Technology Research Program (ATRP).
Distinctions
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow, 2005
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Fellow, 2005
- Kayamori Best Paper Award, 2002 and 2000
- Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics conference General Co-Chair, 1997
- Manufacturing Automation Technical Committee Chairman, 1996-1998
- Transactions on Mechatronics Technical Editor, 1995-1999
- Transactions on Robotics and Automation Associate Editor, 1994-1998
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow, 2005
- Science Applications International Corporation
- Ph.D. Student Paper Award (Advisor to Zhi Zhou), 1994
- M.S. Student Paper Award (Advisor to Joseph F. Scheuring), 1993
- Woodruff School Faculty Fellow, 1994-1999
- The 4th Annual Rensselaer CIMAT Conference Best Paper Award, 1994
- Invention Club of America New Technology Award, 1992
- National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1989-1993
- Best M.S. Thesis Award (Advisor to Joseph F. Scheuring), 1994
- Junior Faculty Research Award, 1989
Patents
- Automated Fee-Gripping System, U.S. Patent 7,134,956, November 2006.
- Automated Transfer of Live Objects to Shackle Line Method and Apparatus, U. S. Patent No. 6,623,346, September 23, 2003.
- Method and Apparatus for Measuring Angular displacement of an Actuator Arm Relative to a Reference Position, U. S. Patent No. 6,188,484, with Harry Douglas Garner Jr. and Rafael Victor Andino, February 13, 2001.
- Real-Time Vision System and Control Algorithm for a Spherical Motor, U.S. Patent 5,416,392, with R. Blenis and T. L. Pao, May 16, 1995
Representative Publications
- K.-M. Lee and D. Zhou. 2004. A Real-Time Optical Sensor for Simultaneous Measurement of 3-DOF Motions. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 9(3), 499- 507.
- Z. Y. Wei, et al. 2004. Free Surface Flow in High Speed Fiber Drawing with Large-Diameter Glass Preforms. ASME Journal of Heat Transfer 126(5), 713-722.
- Z. Y. Wei, et al. 2004. Modeling of Advanced Melting Zone for Manufacturing of Optical Fibers. ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering 126(4), 750-759.
- K.-M. Lee, R. A. Sosseh, and Zhiyong Wei. 2004. Effects of the Torque Model on the Control of a VR Spherical Motor. Control Engineering Practice 12/11, 1437-1449.
- K-M. Lee. 2001. Design Criteria for Developing an Automated Live-Bird Transfer System. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation 17(4), 483-490.
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