Personnel

PI

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Post-Doctoral Researchers

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PhD Students

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MSc Students

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Researchers

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Alumni

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Post-Doctoral Researchers

• Karen-Lee Bar-Sinai
• Tom Shaked
• Huaquan Ying (Co-Advised with Prof. Rafael Sacks)

PhD

• Oren Elmakism, PhD Student, “Autonomous Robotic Collaboration for Environmental Applications”. Graduated 2024
• Amit Prigozin, Phd Student, “Hyper-Flexible Elastic Manipulator: Design, Modelling and Control”, Graduated 2023
• Omer Nir, Phd Student, “Planning and Control for Legged Dynamic Locomotion Over Extreme Terrain”, Graduated 2022
• Adar Gaathon, Phd Student, Technion’s Autonomous Systems Program (TASP), Development of a Robotic Leg and Minimalistic Control Methods for Increased Robustness of a Running Robot, Graduated 2021
• Victor Bloch (Chernishev), Phd Student, “Methods for Simultaneous Orchard and Harvesting Robot Design”, Graduated 2017

MSc

• Ari Meles-Braverman – Co-advised by Alon Wolf, MSc Student, Mechanical Engineering, “Design, Simulation, and Experiments in Push Manipulation of Aggregates and Manipulator Geometry Analysis for Autonomous Construction Site Preparation”
• Ori Manasherov, MSc Student, Technion Autonomous Systems Program (TASP), “Multi-Agent Target Allocation for Artificial Pollination Tasks”
• Noah Paul, MSc Student, Technion Autonomous Systems Program (TASP), ” VRT-SLIP: A Minimalistic Model for Continuous Robotic Running on Rough Terrain”
• Alon Spinner, MSc Student, , Technion Autonomous Systems Program (TASP), “Online As-Built Building Information Model Update for Robotic Monitoring in Construction Sites”
• Amit Ross – co-advised by Yizhar Or, MSc Student, Mechanical Engineering, Hybrid Robot Manipulator Obstacle-Aided Locomotion: Modeling, Path Planning and Simulation, Graduated June 2021
• Alexei Pevzner, MSc Student, Technion’s Autonomous Systems Program (TASP), Automated 3D Point Cloud Sensing and Real-Time Dynamic Projection for Operation Monitoring and Quality Assessment”,Graduated 2021
• Moran Barenboim, MSc Student, Technion’s Autonomous Systems Program (TASP), A Steerable, Minimally Actuated, Underground Robot, Graduated 2020
• Omer Shalev, MSc Student, Technion’s Autonomous Systems Program (TASP), Robot Navigation in Orchards Using Top-View Imagery, Graduated July 2019
• Shirel Josef, MSc Student, Technion’s Autonomous Systems Program (TASP), Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Unknown Rough Terrain, Graduated 2019
• Mark Levin, , MSc Student, Technion’s Autonomous Systems Program (TASP), “Design of an Agricultural Modular Task-Based Robot”, Graduated 2018
• Gal Tibi, MSc Student, Technion’s Autonomous Systems Program (TASP), “Design of thin, multi-layered, electrically driven, thermal expansion based actuators for soft robotic applications”, Graduated 2018 – Now working for an agricultural robotics startup
• Adar  Gaathon, MSc Student, Technion’s Autonomous Systems Program (TASP), “Improving Stability and Reaching Absolute Destinations for the Conservative SLIP Model”, Graduated 2016 – stayed as a PhD student in the lab
• Ron Ben Shaul, Masters Project Student (TASP), “Autonomous ground vehicle navigation in orchards”, Graduated 2017.
• Gilad Refael, MSc Student, Technion’s Autonomous Systems Program (TASP), “Design and Modeling of a Minimalistic Robotic Swimmer”, Graduated 2016
• Sharon Temtsin, MSc Student, “Autonomous Pile Disassembly for Urban Search and Rescue Missions”, Graduated 2015
• Uri Drach, MSc Student – co-advised with Ilan Halachmi, Volcani ARO, “Autonomous Fetching Mechanism in Robotic Dairy Farm”, Graduated 2015
• Gilad Gat, MSc Student – co-advised with Samuel Gan-Mor – Volcani ARO, “Greenhouse Vehicle Steering Using an Overhead Guide”, Graduated March 2015
• Avi Turgeman, MSc Student (TASP) – co-advised with Shraga Shoval, “Sensor Data Fusion of a Redundant Dual Platform Robot for Terrain Mapping”, Graduated January 2015
• Naty Shemer, MSc Student, Technion’s Autonomous Systems Program (TASP), “Minimalistic Control Strategies for Damped and Undamped SLIP-based Dynamic Running Robots”, Graduated January 2015

BSc and Staff

• Aviv Nevo, Civil and Env. Eng. – Lab Engineer – 2016 – 2018
• Philip Yizhou Huang – – University of Toronto – Summer Intern 2018
• Daniyar Akhmedjanov – University of Toronto – Summer Intern 2017
• Gabriel Arpino – University of Toronto – Summer Intern 2016
• Aaron Kogon – University of Toronto – Summer Intern 2016
• Alon Danay, Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Lab Engineer – 2011 – 2016
• Jenny Lam – University of Toronto – Summer Intern 2015
• Wen Bo Li – University of Toronto – Summer Intern 2014
• Oni Ornan – University of Toronto – Summer Intern 2012