4 Original Books (Translations to French, Japanese, Chinese)

14 Patents

300 Papers

20,000 Citations to Koren's Papers

63 h-Index in Google Scholar

35 Ph.D Students

16 Post-doctoral Students

$50M Won in Grants and Managed

1988 — Koren developedCARMEL – the fastest

autonomous mobile robot at thattime. It was featured on CNN. In1992 CARMEL won the national

mobile-robot competition.

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Total Citations 2,200

Citations of the 1991 IEEE paper that describesthe CARMEL motion algorithm.

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Koren’s Impact(as of May 2016)

Koren’s Honors and Awards

William EnnorAward — 1999

Paul G. Goebel EndowedProf. of Engrg. — 1993

Eugene MerchantMedal — 2006

J.J. DuderstadtDistinguished University

Professor of Mfg. — 2010

NAE Member — 2004

CIRP Fellow — 1985

SME Fellow — 1987

ASME Fellow — 1990

IEEE Fellow — 2012

Hanasufa OutstandingInvestigator Cup — 2004

ReconfigurableManufacturing Systems

1978, Published a bookon Numerical Control.

1973, Koren invented the world's firstadaptive control for CNC machine tools.

CNC Interpolators,1975–1995

Koren with Aleksander Kwasniewski,president of Poland from 1995–2005,visited in 2006. More than 1000 prominentvisitors saw the ERC-RMS labs.

Koren supported 70 Ph.D. studentswith ERC funds.

Koren motivated 25 companies to support the ERC-RMS. Total ERC funding — $47 million.The ERC-RMS garnered the highest industry cost-sharing participation of all NSF ERCs.

— ERC-RMS Industry Meeting, 2004

2010, Koren published The Global ManufacturingRevolution describing the RMS concept. It was

translated to Chinese in 2015.

1990 — Koren invented an inflatable robot arm for deploymentin a low-gravity or hazardous environment.

(US Patent #5,065,640)

1991 — Koren invented theworld's first robotic snake

1984 — Koren designed anoriginal Assembly Robot

controlled by IBM PC.

Koren invented and designed theworld's-first ReconfigurableInspection Machine (RIM). The RIMwas integrated into a GM engineproduction line in Flint (2005).

SME Gold Medal— 2007

Koren invented and designed the world'sfirst Reconfigurable Machine Tool,demonstrated at the InternationalManufacturing Technology Show (IMTS)in Chicago, Illinois in 2002.

CNC1985 — Developed the world'sfirst nursing robot to serve

bedridden patients.

Nursing Robot

1993 — Developed adaptivewheelchair that autonomously

adjusts its speed to the environment.(US Patent #5,555,495)

1992 — Koren developed anavigation-belt that enablesgreater mobility for the blind.

“CARMEL garnered the attention of CNN and other media,and increased public interest in rehabilitation robotics.”

— Provost Phil Hanlon, U-M

1985, Koren published Robotics for Engineers.The publisher, McGraw Hill, translated it into

Japanese and French.

“The manufacturing research infrastructuredeveloped by the ERC-RMS is unique in the US, and

is one of the best in the world.”— Quoted from the final NSF report evaluating the ERC-RMS (2007)

1998–2006. Koren developed the preeminent manufacturing research infrastructure in the U.S.

1978, Koren developed adaptivecontrol for turning.

Yoram and Alina KorenThis conference room is dedicated in grateful appreciation to the leadershipand scholarship of Professor Yoram Koren, and to his wife Alina Koren.

1983, Koren published theworld's first CNC textbook(this was granted the SME

textbook award).

“Koren’s former students report that twenty years aftergraduating, they keep his books within reach because

they consult them regularly.” — Provost Phil Hanlon

Eugene Merchant, AlinaKoren, Helen Merchant and

Yoram, 2001

Yoram and Alina Koren(left), Sam and Daisy Wu(right), Madison WI, 1975

Rony, Mayan, Rily, Eytan andson, Shlomy Koren

…with daughter,Asi (Esther)

Robotics1980, Koren invented the Cross-Coupled Controller for multi-axes ultra-precise control by software. The CCC was implemented by CNC companies,and is also utilized to coordinate motion of mobile robots and helicopters.

The ASME CCC paper has 900 citations.

1976, Koren published the world's first paper on CNCinterpolators (IEEE Trans. on Computers)

“Prof. Koren was responsible for bringing controlmethodologies into the mainstream of manufacturing.”— Stephen Malkin, Distinguished University Professor, U-Mass.

“Koren's research on computer numericallycontrolled (CNC) systems established a scientific

approach to the development of CNC systems.”— Galip Ulsoy, Distinguished University Professor, U-M.

"Alina is Yoram's Strategic Advisor who alwayskeeps him on the right path." — Kon-Well Wang, ME Chair

Granddaughters, Ronyand Mayan

Family and Friends

1995, Developed a self-compensatingrotating cutting tool (the toolcontains computer, lasers, etc.)

1996: Yoram Koren established the ERC-RMS, the very first NSF-sponsored Engineering Research Center at U-M.

2007: NSF issued a report evaluating the ERC-RMSaccomplishments during 11 years. (See two quotes on this poster.)

1996–2012: Prof. Koren was the director of the ERC-RMS.

Total funding for the ERC-RMS was $47 million.

Grandson Eytan at theRMS lab — engineer of

the future.

Alina and Yoram Koren, 1964

“In 1983 Koren conceived the world's-first nursingrobot as a means for assisting bedridden patients.”

— Johann Borenstein, Research Professor, U-M

Yoram and Deputy Director,Galip Ulsoy celebrating the

inauguration of the ERC RMS,in July of 1996.

Stephen Malkin,Distinguished University

Professor at U-Mass. was acolleague of Koren and a

good friend.

"Yoram has been a great mentor and promoter of me, and hehas done the same for other colleagues." — Jack Hu, VP Research, U-M

“Koren's Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systemsapproach has become a whole new area of

global research."— Jun Ni, S.M. Wu Collegiate Prof. of Manufacturing Science

CIRP is the InternationalAcademy for Production

Engineering.Koren's 1999 RMS keynote

presentation is CIRP'smost-cited paper.

…with A. Niimi,President, Toyota,

N. America, 2003 CIRPRMS Conference.

…with Roman Krygier,Ford, Group VP forGlobal Manufacturing,2005 CIRP RMSConference.

“There is strong evidence of the effectiveness of the vision of the Centerdirector and his ability to execute the vision.”

— from the final NSF report (2007) evaluating Koren’s leadership role.

Prominent supporters of the ERC-RMS:Standing: John Schweikert (Executive

Director, Powertrain, GM), Mark Blair(Director, Manufacturing Eng., Ford)

Seated: Rick Collins (Director, AdvancedManufacturing eng., Chrysler)Susan Smyth (Chief Scientist,

Manufacturing, GM), Yoram Koren.