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Amir Shapiro March 2013

CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Personal Details

Name: Amir Shapiro

Date and place of birth: October 24, 1971, Haifa, Israel

Marital status: MarriedChildren: Five-three sons and two daughtersRegular military service: August 5, 1990 – July 29, 1993

Address and telephone numbers at work: Department of Mechanical EngineeringBen-Gurion University of the NegevP.O.Box 653 Beer-Sheva, Israel. 84105Tel.: Int.-972-8-647-7165Lab: Int.-972-8-647-7029Fax: Int.-972-8-647-2813Mobile: Int.-972-50-2029614

Address and telephone number at home:

11 Bosmat St., Metar 85025

Tel: Int.-972-77-9339383

Email address: [email protected]

Education

B.Sc. 1993-1997 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Graduated Cum LaudeM.Sc. 1997-2000 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

Name of advisor: Prof. Elon Rimon

Title of thesis: Design and Control of a Planar Spider Robot

Ph.D. 2000-2004 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

Name of advisor: Prof. Elon Rimon

Title of thesis: Design and Control of an Autonomous Spider

Like Robot for Motion in 2D Tunnels Environments

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Employment History

2011 – present Senior Lecturer, tenuredDepartment of Mechanical Engineering,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

2005 – present Director, the Robotics Laboratory,Department of Mechanical Engineering,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

2005 – 2011 LecturerDepartment of Mechanical Engineering,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

8-9 /2008 Visiting Researcher - Robotics grasps analysis Department of Mechanical Engineering,Caltech – California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

7-8 /2007 Visiting Researcher – Robotics grasps analysisDepartment of Mechanical Engineering,Caltech – California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

2005 - 2006 Post Doctoral Fellow – BioRoboticsRobotics Institute,Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

2004 - 2005 Post Doctoral FellowDepartment of Mechanical Engineering,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

3-9/2004 LecturerDepartment of Industrial Engineering and Management,Ariel University Center.

1997 - 2004 Teaching Assistant – Robotics, Mechatronics, and ProjectsFaculty of Mechanical Engineering,Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

1996 - 1997 Research Assistant – Tribology and contact mechanicsFaculty of Mechanical Engineering,Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

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• Professional Activities (in reverse chronological order)

(a) Positions in academic administration

2010 – Present Head, Department projects committee, Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU

2012- Present Member, Department computing committee, Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU

2009- Present Member, Department programs committee, Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU

2009 Head, Department seminars committee, Dept. of Mech. Eng., BGU

2007 – 2010 Member, Department pedagogy committee, Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU

2007 – 2009 Member, Department projects committee, Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU

2008 – 2009 Member, Department laboratories committee, Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU

2007 – 2008 Member, Department seminars committee, Dept. of Mech. Eng., BGU

2004-Present Head, Robotics Laboratory,Dept. of Mech. Eng., BGU

(b) Professional functions outside universities/institutions

2011- Co-Organizer of the Innovation 2013 conference, June 2013 Beer-

Sheva, Israel

2013- Associate Editor of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and

Automation (ICRA 2013), Germany.

2012- Member and Speaker on the Robotics section of the DLD conference,

October 2012, Tel Aviv, Israel

2012- Chairman of the "Kinematics & Dynamics" session of the Israeli

conference on Mechanical Engineering (ICME 2012) Tel-Aviv, Israel,

October 2012.

2012- Chairman of the "Grasp Planning" session of the eighth IEEE

International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

(CASE 2012) Seoul Korea, August 2012.

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2012- Chairman of the "Climbing Robots" session of the IEEE International

Conference on Robotics and Automation St. Paul MN, May 2012.

2011- Co-Organizer and Speaker of the Innovation 2011 conference, May

2011 Beer-Sheva, Israel

2011- Chairman of the “Control Systems in Robotics and Automation” session

of the Advanced Industrial Control (AIC) conference , May 2011, Beer

Sheva, Israel.

2011- Member and Speaker on the Robotics section of the KinnerNet

conference, March 2011, Ohalo, Israel

2010- Organizer of the First European CROPS Workshop on Sensing and

Mechanical Design, Dec 19, 2010, Wageningen, Netherlands.

2010- Chairman of the “Dynamics and Control” session of the 3rd Israeli

Conference on Robotics, Herzlia, Israel , 10-11 November, 2010.

2010- Chairman of the “Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robot” session of

the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and

Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, 18-22 October 2010.

2010- Chairman of the “UAV's" session of the first AUVSI-IEEE joint

Conference on Robotics, Beer Sheva, Israel, 6 October 2010.

2010- Chairman of the “Robotics and Autonomous Systems” session of the

31st Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2-

3 June 2010.


conference, Ohalo, Israel

2010- Organizer and Speaker on the Innovation 2010 conference, April 2010

Beer-Sheva, Israel

2010- Judge at the FIRST robotics competition, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2010- Chairman of the “Robotics” session of the Advanced Industrial Control

(AIC) conference , March 2010, Beer Sheva, Israel.

2010- Member and Speaker on the Robotics Panel at the Festival delle

Scienze, January 2010, Rome Italy


conference, Ohalo, Israel


2009- Member and Speaker on the Robotics Panel at the DLD (Digital, Life, Design) conference, Munich, Germany

2008- Organizer of the SLO-IL project meeting, Bled, Slovenia

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2008- Chairman of the “Robot Design” session at the second Israeli

Robotics Conference, Herzelia, Israel

2008- Chairman of the “Robot Design” session at the ESDA 2008, 9th

Biennial ASME Conference on Engineering Systems Design and

Analysis, Haifa, Israel

2008- Organizer of a Robotics Workshop, Ben Gurion University, Beer-

Sheva, Israel


2007- Organizer of the Dutch-Israeli Agricultural Science and Technology

workshop on new approach to future farming: small and light-weight

agrobots

2007- Chairman of the “Intelligent Transportation Systems” session at the

2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation, Rome,

Italy


2006- Chairman of the “Navigation” session at the 2006 IEEE

International Conference on Robotics & Automation, Orlando, FL

(c) Significant professional consulting

2011 – 2012 Roboteam, Development of robots, sensor fusion, motion

planning, and control of robots.

2008 - 2009 Aero Ice Free- Development of deicing system for UAV wings

1999-2001 GeBA Gene Bio Application – Development of automated

visual guided gene extraction system

2001-2002 Ter-Arme – Numerical solution for the curve of the Ben-

Gurion Airport – Modein tunnel

d) Editor or member of editorial board of scientific or professional journals

2011 – present Editor – Springer, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems.

2009-present Member of the Editorial board of the Electronic Colloquium

on Design Thinking Research

2008- 2009 Co-Editor of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial

Intelligence Special Issue on Multi-Robot Coverage, Search,

and Exploration

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2006-Present Member of the Editorial Consultant Board of the International

Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

(f) Membership in professional/scientific societies

2004-Present Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics

Engineering (IEEE)

1999-Present Member of the Israeli Association for Automatic Control

(IAAC)

1998-Present Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering

(ASME)

• Educational activities

(a) Courses taught

Undergraduate level – BGU: Theory of Machines, Kinematics and

Dynamics of Robots, Mechatronics, Senior

projects

Graduate level – BGU: Robot Motion Planning and Control,

Advanced Subjects in Robotics

Undergraduate level – Ariel University center:

Engineering Design, Robot Design and Programming

Undergraduate level – Technion: Mechatronics

Research students

M.Sc. Students2007 - Shahar Sarid – Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Multi Robot Motion Planning.2008 - Yaron Levinson – Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, (Co supervised with Prof. R. Segev),

On the kinematics of Octopus arm.

2009 - Pavel Zilberman – Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Development of a Four Legged

Walking Robot.

2009 - Alon Ohev Zion – Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, (Co-advised with: Prof. B.Z. Sandler,

and Prof. V. Portman), Balancing Spatial Inverted Pendulum.

2009 - Alon Capua – Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Motion analysis of an Under-Constrained

Cable Suspended Robot.

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2009 - Eran Korkidi – Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Image Based Visual Servoing of a Date

Palm Trees Sprayer.

2011- Hanoch Efraim - Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Quad-Rotor hovercraft, structure, state

estimation, and control.

2012- Avi Manor – Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Modeling and Motion planning for a vector

thrusters based quad-rotor.

2012- Shlomo Shemesh - Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Control and Motion Planning of a

UAV Quadrotor.

****- Jonathan Fuchs - Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Grasp Design and Analysis with

Application to Fruits harvesting.

2013 - Eddie Zisser - Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Modeling and , Non-linear control

of Servo Pneumatic system with Application to Quadruped Robot.

****- Yelena Bleich - Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Optimal Design of Boundary

Conditions of Elastic Objects to Achieve Desired Deformations.

****- Guy Zeidner - Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Inertial, Magnetic, and Visual based SLAM with application to Vineyard Sprayer.

****- Yam Geva - Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Motion planning for walking robots.

****- Nir Levi - Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Quasi-static locomotion and dexterity of a humanoid robot.

****- Hagai Balshai - Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, On the development of a BaMPer-Balance Measure and Perturbation System.

Ph.D. Students

2012- Shahar Sarid – Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, (Co supervised with Prof. Y. Edan), Motion Planning for Heterogeneous group of Robots. Submitted on June 2011

****- Alon Capua – Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Control of Reduced Order of Very Large

Scale Systems. (Co supervised with Prof. N. Berman).

****- Alon Ohev Zion – Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Robotic Grasp of Deformable Objects.

****- Hanoch Efraim – Dept. of Mech. Eng, BGU (Co supervised with Dr. Gera Weiss),

Vision based state estimation and motion planning.

****- Oded Medina - Dept. of Mech. Eng, BGU, motion planning and control and

actuation of a compliant manifold.

****- Avishai Sintov - Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU, Automatic Design of a Gripper for

Grasping Objects of Various Shapes.

**** - Eddie Zisser - Dept. Mech. Eng., BGU.

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• Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships

(a) Honors, Citation Awards (including during studies)

2011 The Volunteering Award in Education from Metar's Municipality

2008 Development of Spider Robot included in Israel 60’s book

2006 Biography included in Who's Who in Science

2005 BGU Dean of engineering award for excellence in teaching

2004 The Barazani prize for outstanding Ph.D. thesis

2003 The Salim and Rachel Benin scholarship

2001 Technion excellence scholarship

2000 Technion excellence scholarship

1999 Special Gutwirth scholarship for excellence

1996 Included in the Technion President's List

1993-1996 Included in the Technion Dean's List

1990 The Ministry of Education excellence scholarship

(b) Fellowships

2004 The Israeli Council for Higher Education (VATAT) Post-

Doctoral fellowship

1997 – 2004 Technion graduate student’s fellowship

• Scientific Publications

H-Index: 8

(a) Editorship of collective volumes

1) G. Kaminka, A. Shapiro, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Special Issue on Multi-Robot Coverage, Search, and Exploration, 52(2-4), April 2008

(b) Chapters in collective volumes

1) E. Rimon, S. Shoval, A. Shapiro, “Design of a Spider Robot Based on

Second-Order Immobilization Theory”, The 9th International Symposium

on Robotics Research, pages 15-22, J. Hollerbach and D. Koditschek

Editors, Springer Verlag, 1999.

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2) S. Sarid, A. Shapiro, “H-MRSTM: Competitive Search Algorithm for

Heterogeneous Group of Robots”, Emerging Technologies, Robotics and

Control Systems, Third edition, pages. 209-216, Editor: Salvatore

Pennacchio, International Society for Advanced Research 2009.

3) (*) Yam Geva and Amir Shapiro, "Automatic Tree Tracking System for

Date Palm Trees Sprayer", Handbook of Robotics, Springer Verlag 2013.

(c) Refereed articles and refereed letters in scientific journals

1) E. Rimon, S. Shoval and A. Shapiro, “Design of a Quadruped Robot for

Motion with Quasistatic Force Constraints”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Journal of Autonomous Robots, Volume 10 (3) May 2001,

pages 279-296.

Number of citations: 4, Journal Impact Factor: 1.235

2) A. Shapiro, E. Rimon, S. Shoval, “Immobilization Based Control of Spider

Robots in Tunnels Environment”, SAGE Publications, The International

Journal of Robotics Research, Volume 20 (3) March 2001, pages 209-227.


3) A. Shapiro, "The Future is Here – Making Walking Machines: Planar

Spider Robot", Machines & Industry Magazine published by Medium -

Professional Magazines Network, Volume 92, May 2004, pages. 39-41,88.

(Editor refereed, in Hebrew).

Number of citations: 0, Journal Impact Factor: ??

4) A. Shapiro, "Stability of second-Order Asymmetric Linear Systems With

Application to Robot Grasping", ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics,

Volume 72 (6),November 2005, pages. 966-968.


5) A. Shapiro, E. Rimon “PCG: A Foothold Selection Algorithm for Spider

Robot Locomotion in 2D Tunnels”, SAGE Publications, International

Journal of Robotics Research, Volume 24 (10) , November 2005 pages.

823-844.


6) Amir Shapiro, Shraga Shoval, "Design and Locomotion of a Semi-passive

Mobile Platform", Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Volume 25, Jul

2006, Pages 319 – 330.


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7) Shahar Sarid, Amir Shapiro, “Classifying the Multi Robot Path Finding

Problem into a Quadratic Competitive Complexity Class”, Springer-Verlag

Dordrecht publishers, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence,

Volume 52(2-4):169–203, April 2008.

Number of citations: 0, Journal Impact Factor: 0.8938) Shapiro Amir, Korkidi Eran, Demri Amnon, Riemer Raziel, Edan Yael,

Ben-Shahar Ohad, “Toward Elevated Agrobotics: An Autonomous Field

Robot for Spraying and Pollinating Date Palm Trees”, Wiley Blackwell publishers, Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 26 (6/7) : 572-590, June/July

2009.

Number of citations: 2, Journal Impact Factor: 3.5809) Shahar Sarid, Amir Shapiro, “H-MRSTM: A Competitive Search Algorithm

for Heterogeneous Group of Robots”, International Journal of Factory

Automation, Robotics and Soft Computing, Issue 3: 51-58, July 2009.


10) Uri Kartoun, Amir Shapiro, Helman Stern, Yael Edan, “Physical

Modeling of a Bag Knot in a Robot Learning System”, IEEE Transactions

on Automation Science and Engineering, Volume 7 (1): 172-177, January

2010.

Number of citations: 0, Journal Impact Factor: 1.47111) A. Shapiro, E. Rimon, S. Shoval, “On the Passive Force Closure Set of

Planar Grasps and Fixtures”, SAGE Publications, International Journal

of Robotics Research, Volume 29 (11): 1435-1454, September 2010.

Number of citations: 0, Journal Impact Factor: 3.10712) Amir Shapiro, Itshak Melzer, “Balance Perturbation System to Improve

Balance Compensatory Responses During Walking in Elderly Persons”,

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Volume 7 (1):

32, July 2010.

Number of citations: 0, Journal Impact Factor 2.12

13) Ron Berenstein, Ohad Ben Shahar, Amir Shapiro, Yael Edan, “Grape clusters and foliage detection algorithms for autonomous selective vineyard sprayer”, Springer-Verlag publications, Intelligent Service Robotics journal, Special Issue on Agricultural Robotics, Volume 3 (4): 233-243, October 2010.


Number of citations: 0, Journal Impact Factor ??

14) (*)Raziel Riemer, Amir Shapiro, “Biomechanical Energy Harvesting from

Human Motion: Theory and Applications”, IEEE Journal of

NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2011, 8:22.


15) (*) Avishai Sintov, Tomer Avramovich, Amir Shapiro, "Design and

Motion Planning of an Autonomous Climbing Robot with Claws", the

Journal of Robotics and Autonomous systems, Volume 59, Issue 11,

November 2011, Pages 1008–1019.


16) (*) Shraga Shoval, Amir Shapiro, "Dual Tracked Mobile Robot for Motion

in Challenging Terrains", Journal of Field Robotics, 28 (5), 769-791

September 2011.

Number of citations: 0, Journal Impact Factor 3.58017) (*) A. Shapiro, E. Rimon, A. Ohev-Zion, “On the Mechanics of Natural

Compliance in Frictional Contacts and its Effect on Grasp Stiffness and

Stability”, SAGE Publications, International Journal of Robotics

Research, Accepted for publication, October 2012.

Number of citations: 0, Journal Impact Factor: 3.10718) (*) Alon Capua, Yaakov Nissim, Ziv Brand, and Amir Shapiro, "H∞ Robust

Control via Singular Value Decomposition as a Design Tool for Continuous

Dynamic Systems " accepted to the Journal of Research and Applications in

Mechanical Engineering (JRAME) , October 2012.

19) (*) Amir Shapiro, Yam Geva, Hagay Balshay, Ilan Kurz, Yoav Gimmon, Itshak Melzer, "Balance perturbation system to improve balance compensatory responses during walking in old persons", accepted to the International journal of Physical Medicine

and Rehabilitation, March 2013.

(d) Other refereed publications * *These conferences are highly prestigious and considered equivalent to journal

papers (some are even more competitive than several journals).

1) (*) Avishai Sintov, Srinivas Raghothama, Roland Menassa and Amir

Shapiro, "A Common 3-finger grasp Search Algorithm for a Set of Planar


Objects", The eighth annual IEEE International Conference on Automation

Science and Engineering (CASE 2012), August 20-24, 2012, Seoul, Korea.

(acceptance rate 69%)

2) (*) Yam Geva, Amir Shapiro, “A Combined Potential Function and Graph

Search Approach for Free Gait Generation of Quadruped Robots”, IEEE

International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), May 2012,

Minnesota, USA. (acceptance rate 40%)

3) (*) Shahar Sarid, Amir Shapiro, Elon Rimon, Yael Edan, “Classifying The

Heterogeneous Multi Robot Online Search Problem Into Quadratic Time

Competitive Complexity Class”, IEEE International Conference on

Robotics & Automation (ICRA), May 2011, Shanghai, China. (acceptance

rate 49%)

4) Alon Capua, Amir Shapiro, Shraga Shoval, “SpiderBot: A Cable

Suspended Mobile Robot”, a Video presentation at the IEEE International

Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), May 2011, Shanghai,

China. (acceptance rate 55.6%)

5) Shahar Sarid, Amir Shapiro, “A Time Competitive Heterogeneous Multi

Robot Path Finding Algorithm”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Intelligent Robots and Systems, (IROS 2010), October 18-22, 2010, Taipei,

Taiwan.(acceptance rate 49.6%)

6) A. Capua, A. Shapiro, S. Shoval, "Motion Planning Algorithm for a

Mobile Robot Suspended by Seven Cables", IEEE International Conferences

on Cybernetics & Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Automation &

Mechatronics (CIS-RAM 2010),pages 504-509, Singapore 28-30 June

2010.

7) A. Capua, A. Shapiro, S, Shoval, “Motion Analysis of an

Underconstrained Cable Suspended Mobile Robot”, IEEE conference on

Robotics and Biomimetics, pages: 788-793, December 2009, Guilin China.

8) S. Shoval, A. Shapiro, "Slippery Model for a Semi-Passive Mobile

Platform Subjected to External Wrench", IEEE International Conferences

on Cybernetics & Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Automation &

Mechatronics (CIS-RAM 2008), pages: 749-754, Chengdu, China 3-6 June

2008.

9) A. Degani, A. Shapiro, H. Choset, M.T. Mason, “A Dynamic Single

Actuator Vertical Climbing Robot”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

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Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages: 2901-2906, November 2007 San

Diego, CA, USA. (acceptance rate 49%)

Number of citations: 7

10) A. Shapiro, A. Greenfield, H. Choset, "Frictional Compliance Model

Development and Experiments for Snake Robot Climbing", IEEE

International Conference on Robotics & Automation, pages: 574-579, April

2007, Rome Italy. (acceptance rate 43.7%)


11) S. Sarid, A. Shapiro, Y. Gabriely, "MRBUG: A Competitive Multi Robot

Path Finding Algorithm", IEEE International Conference on Robotics &

Automation, pages: 877-882, April 2007, Rome Italy. (acceptance rate

43.7%)


12) S. Sarid, A. Shapiro, Y. Gabriely, "MRSAM: A Quadratically

Competitive Multi-Robot Online Navigation Algorithm", IEEE International

Conference on Robotics & Automation, pages: 2699-2704, May 2006,

Orlando, FL, USA. (acceptance rate 38.7%)

13) A. Shapiro and S. Shoval, “Design and Locomotion of Semi-

Passive Mobile Platform”, The 5th International Conference on Field and

Service Robotics, pages: 319-330, July 29-31 2005, Port Douglas

Australia.

14) A. Shapiro, E. Rimon, J. W. Burdick, “On the Mechanics of

Natural Compliance in Frictional Contacts and its Effect on Grasp Stiffness

and Stability”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation,

pages: 1264-1269, April 2004, New Orleans, LA, USA. (acceptance rate

58.8%)


15) A. Shapiro and E. Rimon, “PCG: A Foothold Selection Algorithm

for Spider Robot Locomotion in 2D Tunnels”, IEEE International

Conference on Robotics & Automation, pages: 2966-2972, September

2003, Taipei, Taiwan. (acceptance rate 60.5%)


16) A. Shapiro, E. Rimon, J. W. Burdick, “Passive Force Closure and

its Computation in Compliant-Rigid Grasps”, IEEE/RSJ International


Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages: 1769-1775, November 2001 Maui, Hawaii, USA.


17) A. Shapiro, E. Rimon, S. Shoval, “Immobilization Based Control

of Spider Robots in Tunnel Environments”, The IEEE International


Seoul Korea. (acceptance rate 64.5%)


18) S. Shoval, E. Rimon, A. Shapiro, “Design of a Spider-Like Robot

for Motion with Quasistatic Force Constraints”, The IEEE International


Detroit USA.

(e) Peer reviewed conference papers in conference proceedings

1) Amir Shapiro, Yam Geva, Hagay Balshay, Ilan Kurz, Yoav Gimmon, Itshak Melzer, "Balance perturbation system to improve balance compensatory responses during walking in old persons", Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, August 19-21, 2013,

Las Vegas, NV,USA

2) E. Zisser, A. Shapiro, R. Riemer, Pneumatic Actuation – New Approach in

Analytical Analysis and Modeling, The 32nd Israeli Conference on

Mechanical Engineering (ICME 2012), October 17-18, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

3) H. Efraim, A. Shapiro, Special Quadrotor Structure with Inherent Negative

Velocity Feedback, The 32nd Israeli Conference on Mechanical

Engineering (ICME 2012), October 17-18, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

4) Yam Geva, Amir Shapiro, Combined Potential Function and Graph Search

Approach for Free Gait Generation of Quadruped Robots, The 32nd Israeli

Conference on Mechanical Engineering (ICME 2012), October 17-18, Tel-

Aviv, Israel.

5) O. Medina, B. Ben Moshe, A. Shapiro, and N. Shvalb, An Actuated

Flexible Manifold, The 32nd Israeli Conference on Mechanical

Engineering (ICME 2012), October 17-18, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

6) Avishai Sintov, and Amir Shapiro, On the Computation of a Common

3-finger Grasp for a Set of 3D Objects, The 32nd Israeli Conference on

Mechanical Engineering (ICME 2012), October 17-18, Tel-Aviv, Israel.


7) A.Ohev-Zion, A.Miller, A.Sintov, A.Shapiro, Experimental Validation of Compliant Contact Model, The 32nd Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering (ICME 2012), October 17-18, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

8) Boris Rozbaum, Alon Capua, Ziv Brand, Amir Shapiro, Control and Optimization of Heat Sources, The 32nd Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering (ICME 2012), October 17-18, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Winner of Best Student Poster Award.

9) Hagai Balshai, Oren Erez, Yam Geva, Itzik Meltzer, Amir Shapiro, Development of a device for improving the recovering ability from perturbations during paced walking of the Elderly, The 32nd Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering (ICME 2012), October 17-18, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

10) Avi Manor, Amir Shapiro, "Design and Control of a Fully

Actuated Quadrotor Unmanned Air Vehicle" International conference on

Unmannd Systems AUVSI 2012, page 81, March 20-22, Tel-Aviv, Israel

11) Alon Capua, Yaacov Nissim, Ziv Brand, Amir Shapiro, "H_inf

Robust Control via Singular Value Decomposition as a Design Tool for

Continuous Dynamic Systems, TSME International Conference on

Mechanical Engineering, October 19-21 2011, Krabi, Thailand.

12) Alon Ohev Zion, Amir Shapiro, “Grasping of Deformable

Objects”, 12th conference Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems

(TAROS), August 2011, Shefilled, UK.

13) Alon Ohev Zion, Amir Shapiro, “Optimal Grasping of Deformable

Objects”, Advanced Industrial Control (AIC) conference , May 2011, Beer

Sheva, Israel.

14) Hanoch Efraim, Amir Shapiro, “Attitude Estimation of VTOL

MAV”, Advanced Industrial Control (AIC) conference , May 2011, Beer

Sheva, Israel.

15) Alon Capua, Ziv Brand, Amir Shapiro, Guy Rodnay, “Singular

Value Decomposition, a Design Tool for Continuous Dynamic Systems”,

Advanced Industrial Control (AIC) conference , May 2011, Beer Sheva,

Israel.

16) Raziel Riemer, Amir Shapiro, “ Choosing optimal gear and generator for

a knee biomechanical energy harvester”, 3rd Israeli Conference on

Robotics, Herzlia, Israel , 10-11 November, 2010


17) Alon Capua, Amir Shapiro, Shraga Shoval,“ SpiderBot - a Walking Cable

Suspended Robot that Emulates Spider-Man”, 3rd Israeli Conference on

Robotics, Herzlia, Israel , 10-11 November, 2010.

18) Alon Ohev-Zion, Amir Shapiro, “Derivation and control of a spatial

Nonlinear Ballbot System”, 3rd Israeli Conference on Robotics, Herzlia,

Israel , 10-11 November, 2010.

19) Shahar Sarid, Amir Shapiro, Yael Edan , “Algorithm for finding a path to

a target with heterogeneous group of robots”, 3rd Israeli Conference on

Robotics, Herzlia, Israel , 10-11 November, 2010.

20) S. Sarid, A. Shapiro, Y. Edan “H-MRSTM: Hetrogenous Multi Robot Time

Competitive Motion Planning Algorithm, Performance Analysis and

Simulations”, AUVSI-IEEE joint conference, Beer Sheva, Israel, October

6, 2010

21) H. Efraim, A. Shapiro, “On the Development of Autonomous Glider”,

AUVSI-IEEE joint conference, Beer Sheva, Israel, October 6, 2010

22) E. Zisser, A. Shapiro, R. Riemer, H. Guterman, “On the Development of

an Autonomous Pneumatically Driven Quadruped Robot”, AUVSI-IEEE

joint conference, Beer Sheva, Israel, October 6, 2010

23) A. Capua, A. Shapiro, S. Shoval, “An Algorithm for Gait Planning of an

Underconstrained Cable Suspended Mobile Robot”, AUVSI-IEEE joint

conference, Beer Sheva, Israel, October 6, 2010.

24) Shahar Sarid, Amir Shapiro, Yael Edan, “Algorithm and Simulations for

Finding a Target With Robots With Different Velocities”, The 31st Israeli

Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2-3 June 2010.

25) Hanoch Efraim, Amir Shapiro, , “Autonomous Thermal Soaring”, The 31st

Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2-3 June

2010.

26) Alon Ohev-Zion, Amir Shapiro, “Nonlinear Modeling and Control of

BallBot System”, The 31st Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering,

Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2-3 June 2010.

27) Alon Capua, Ziv Brand, Amir Shapiro, Guy Rodnay, “A Generic Tool

Based on Singular Value Decomposition for Heat Source Design”, The 31st

Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2-3 June

2010.


28) Yam Geva, Amir Shapiro, Ohad Ben-Shahar, Yael Edan, “Visual

Tracking of Date Palm Trees for Targeted Spraying”, The 31st Israeli

Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2-3 June 2010.

29) A. Capua, A. Shapiro, S. Shoval, “Motion Analysis and Automatic Gait

Algorithm for an Underconstrained Cable Suspended Mobile Robot”,

Advanced Industrial Control (AIC) conference , March 2010, Beer Sheva,

Israel.

30) A. Ohev-Zion, A. Shapiro, “Stabilization of an Underactuated Robot on a

ball”, Advanced Industrial Control (AIC) conference , March 2010, Beer

Sheva, Israel.

31) A. Shapiro, “On the Development of Wall Climbing Robots”, Israeli

Conference of Robotics (ICR), Nov 2008, Tel Aviv, Israel

32) E.Korkidi, A. Shapiro, O.Ben-Shahar, “Visual Servoing of A Pan Tilt

Spraying Head For Accurate Spraying Of Date Palm Trees” Israeli


33) R. Berenstein, O. Ben Shachar, A. Shapiro, Y. Edan, A. Bechar, “Image

processing algorithms for selective vineyard robotic sprayer”, Israeli


34) A. Ohev-Zion, B.Z. Sandler, A. Shapiro., "The 3-D Inverted Pendulum

with Oscillating Pivot" Israeli Conference of Robotics (ICR), Nov 2008,

Tel Aviv, Israel

35) Y. Levinson, R. Segev, A. Shapiro, “Notes on the Kinematics of an

Octopus’s Arm”, Proceedings of the 9th Biennial ASME Conference on

Engineering Systems Design and Analysis ESDA2008, July 7-9 2008

Haifa, Israel.

36) A. Wolf, A. Shapiro, A.Mor, “MBARS2: A new design for a 3 degrees-of-

freedom parallel structure for joint arthroplasty”, Proceedings of the 9th

Biennial ASME Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis

ESDA2008, July 7-9 2008 Haifa,Israel.

37) A. Shapiro, E. Korkidi, A. Rotenberg, G. Furst, H. Namdar, B. Sapir, M.

Mishkin, O. Ben-Shahar, Y. Edan, “A Robotic Prototype for Spraying and

Pollinating Date Palm Trees”, Proceedings of the 9th Biennial ASME

Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis ESDA2008, July

7-9 2008 Haifa,Israel.


38) S. Sarid, A. Shapiro, and Y. Gabriely, "Online Motion Planning Algorithm

for a Group of Robots Obtaining a Common Goal" Israeli Conference of

Robotics (ICR), June 2006, Tel Aviv, Israel.

39) S. Shoval, A. Shapiro, A. Novak, S. Papo, "3D Spider Robot for Motion in

Congested Environments" Israeli Conference of Robotics (ICR), June 2006,

Tel Aviv, Israel

40) A. Shapiro, I. Mahpoda and H. Zuk, “A Snail Inspired Wall Climbing

Robot for Counter Terrorism Duty”, The 30th Israeli Conference on

Mechanical Engineering, May 29-30 2005, Tel-Aviv Israel.

41) S. Shoval and A. Shapiro, “A Semi-Passive Mobile Platform for Motion on

Slippery Surfaces”, The 30th Israeli Conference on Mechanical

Engineering, May 29-30 2005, Tel-Aviv Israel.

42) A. Shapiro, E. Rimon, S. Shoval, “Design of a Spider Robot for Motion

with Quasistatic Force Constraints”, The 28th Israel Conf. on Mech. Eng.,

July 2000.

43) A. Shapiro, E. Rimon, S. Shoval, “Immobilization Based Control of Spider

Robots in Tunnels Environment”, The 21st IEEE Convention of Electrical

and Electronic Engineers in Israel, May 2000.

(g) Unrefereed professional articles and publications

1) Alon Capua, Ziv Brand, Amir Shapiro, “A Generic Tool Based on

Singular Value Decomposition for Heat Source Design”, Technical Report

N/2010/995/101 Nuclear Research Center Negev, Engineering Research

and Development Center, May 2010

2) Gal Kaminka, Amir Shapiro, “Editorial: Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Special Issue on Multi-Robot Coverage, Search, and Exploration”, Annals of Mathematics and

Artificial Intelligent, 52(2-4), pages 107-108, April 2008.

• Lectures and Presentations at Meetings and Invited Seminars not Followed by

Published Proceedings

(h) Presentations at informal international seminars and workshops

1) Amir Shapiro, "Control of Continuous Systems", Actual problems of solids

and media mechanics workshop, National Research Perm State Technical


University (PSTU), and Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics UB RAS,

Jun 27-29, 2011 Perm, Russia.

2) Amir Shapiro, "Climbing, Crawling, and Walking Robots", US/Israel

Robotics Workshop 2011, Feb 16-17, 2011, Aberdeen Proving Ground,

MD, USA.

3) Amir Shapiro and Hanoch Efraim, "Development of Unmanned Aerial

Vehicle For Chasing Birds Away from Fish Ponds and Fields", The Society

of Israeli Aquaculture and Marine Biotechnology (SIAMB) Workshop on

Technology, and Operation of Fish Ponds – Theory and Applications,

November 30, 2010, Maagan-Michael, Israel.

4) Amir Shapiro “Adaptable Grippers", First European CROPS Workshop on

Sensing and Mechanical Design, Dec 19, 2010, Wageningen, Netherlands

5) Amir Shapiro “Agricultural Robotics", First European CROPS Workshop

on Sensing and Mechanical Design, Dec 19, 2010, Wageningen,

Netherlands

6) Amir Shapiro “Biomimetics and robot environment interaction”, an

invited plenary talk at the NATO ASI 2010: Advanced All-Terrain

Autonomous Systems conference, August 15 – 24, 2010, Çeşme, Turkey.

7) A. Shapiro and A. Ohev-Zion, “The Robotics Show”, an invited

demonstration at the High Tech Industry Association Annual Conference

and Delegation - Jerusalem 6-10 June, 2010.

8) A. Shapiro, “Inspiration Sources for Robots Design”, an invited

presentation Festival delle Scienze, January 13-17, 2010, Rome Italy

9) A. Shapiro, “Inspiration Sources for Robots Design”, an invited

presentation at Kshitij annual techno-management symposium of I.I.T.

Kharagpur, January 28-31, 2010, India

10) A. Shapiro, “Snake Robots and Climbing Robots”, an invited

demonstration at the World Innovation Summit, Sept 14 2009, Tel Aviv.

11) A. Shapiro, “Snake Robots and Climbing Robots”, an invited

demonstration at the KinnerNet conference, March 2009, Ohalo.

12) A. Shapiro, “Snake Robots and Climbing Robots”, an invited presentation

and demonstration at the DLD (Digital, Life, Design) conference, Munich, Germany, January 2009

13) A. Shapiro, “Climbing Robots”, an invited presentation at the ministry of

industry and trade general scientist annual conference, Ben-Gurion Airport

City, Nov. 27, 2008.


14) A. Shapiro, “Walking, Crawling, and Climbing Robots”, an invited lecture

at Machanet- a conference for Israeli intelligence forces, Ramon Air Force

base, October 22-24, 2008.

15) A. Shapiro, “Wall Climbing Robot for Counter Terrorism Duty”, an

invited lecture at the 5th Workshop on Security and the War against Terror

– The Scientific Challenge, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, April

30, 2008.

16) A. Shapiro, “Bio- Inspired Robotics”, Feb 29, 2008. An invited workshop

at the Pragyan technology festival in the National Institute of Technology

Tiruchirappalli, India.

(i) Seminar presentations at universities and institutions

1) (*) A. Shapiro, "A Grasp of Future Industrial Robotics", A keynote talk at

the Polygon Robotics Conference, March 13, 2013, Kadima, Israel.

2) (*) A. Shapiro, “The Amazing Robots of Israel”, speaking for AABGU,

May 22, 2012. South Orange county New Jersey.

3) (*) A. Shapiro, "Agriculture Robotics", A keynote talk at the Annual

Conference of the Israeli Association for Agricultural Engineering, July 7,

2011.

4) A. Shapiro, “The Amazing Robots of Israel”, speaking tour for AABGU,

Feb 6-20, 2010. Philadelphia, New York, Chicago.

5) A. Shapiro, “The Robotic Future”, speaking tour for AABGU, July 6-23,

2009. Los Angeles, San-Francisco, New York.

6) A. Shapiro, “The Robotic Future”, an invited lecture and demonstration at

Caltech, July 17, 2009. Pasadena CA.

7) A. Shapiro,”Mobile Robots: on Walking, Crawling, and Climbing Robots”,

an Invited lecture by the Technion Students Association on July 9, 2008

8) A. Shapiro, “On-Line Competitive Algorithms for Multi-Robot Motion

Planning”, May 2, 2007. invited seminar at the Department of Information

Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University.

9) A. Shapiro, "Design and Control of an Autonomous Spider-Like Robot for

Motion in 2D Tunnel Environments", November 15th 2005, invited CFR

seminar at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,

PA , USA.

10) A. Shapiro, "Motion Planning, Control, and special Structures of Mobile

Robots", October 29th 2004, An invited lecture to high school students in


the opening ceremony of the special university program to promote

accessibility of students to higher education.

11) A. Shapiro, "Planar Spider Robots – A Step Towards Walking Machines",

March 10th 2004, Ph.D. Thesis selected by the dean of graduate students at

the Technion for presentation in a special series of lectures by outstanding

graduate students.


Motion in 2D Tunnel Environments", December 18th 2003, A presentation

to foreign military attaches at their visit in the Technion.


Motion in 2D Tunnel Environments", June 11th 2003, invited seminar at

the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

• Patents

1) Shraga Shoval and Amir Shapiro, "Dual Tracked Mobile Robot for Motion

in Rough Terrain". United States patent No. US 7,946,372, European patent

No. EP 1957349 validated in UK, FR, and DE. Israel Patent No. IL

172078.

2) Amir Shapiro, Itshak Melzer, “BALANCE PERTURBATION SYSTEM

AND TRAINER”, United States patent No. US 20,120,071,300.

Research Grants

2013-2016- Planning and Budgeting Committee and Nuclear Research Center Negev,

Amir Shapiro, “Development of Sensors based methods for analysis and control of milling machines and milling processes”, $71,484

2012-2013- Israel Ministry of Defense, , Hugo Guterman, Amir Shapiro, “DARPA-BAA-12-39 – “DARPA Robotics Challenge”, $57,333

2012-2013- Israel Ministry of Defense, Amir Shapiro, Hugo Guterman, “Development of

a Micro-Robot”, $24,746

2012-2013- Israel Ministry of Defense, Raziel Riemer, Amir Shapiro, Itzhak Meltzer,

Shmuel Ben-Yaakov “Development of Technology for Energy Harvesting

from Human Motion”, $76,590

2011-2012- Israel Ministry of Defense, Amir Shapiro, Hugo Guterman, “Development of

a Micro-Robot”, $24,000


2011-2012- Israel Ministry of Defense, Amir Shapiro, Hugo Guterman, Raziel Riemer

“Development of a Mule-Like Quadruped Robot”, $24,000

2011-2013- General Motors LTD. " Reconfigurable Body Shop End-Effector – Simulation

of Part Grasping and Low Cost Design Approaches for Body Shop

Applications", $186,890

2011-2014- Israel Ministry of Health, Itzhak Meltzer, Amir Shapiro, "Perturbation

System to Improve Balance Compensatory Responses During Walking in

Elderly Persons", $88,261




Shmuel Ben-Yaakov “Development of Technology for Energy Harvesting

from Human Motion”, $71,700


Amir Shapiro, “Optimal Design of Boundary condition in Elastic systems”, $22,100


Nadav Berman, Amir Shapiro, “Model Based Control of Thermal Systems”, $22,100

2011- Pearlstone center for Aeronautics research, Amir Shapiro, “Lab equipment

budget”, $2500

2010-2011- The International Judea Foundation- Project Jacob Fakheri, Itshak

Meltzer ,Amir Shapiro, “Balance Perturbation System to Improve Balance Compensatory Responses During Walking in Elderly Persons”, $40,000



2010-2012 - Israel Ministry of Agriculture, Amir Shapiro, Yael Edan, Ohad Ben-Shahar,

Avital Bechar , "Development of an Autonomous Vineyard Sprayer",

$130,890.

2010-2014 – European Union FP7, Yael Edan, Amir Shapiro, Ohad Ben-Shahar, Sigal

Berman, Helman Stern, “Intelligent sensing and manipulation for sustainable

production and harvesting of high valued crops, clever robots for crops”,

$1,328,121.


2009-2012 - Israel Ministry of Agriculture, Avital Bechar, Yael Edan, Amir Shapiro,

"Development of an Autonomous Pepper Sprayer", $205,263

2009-2011- The Institute for Future Defense Technologies Research Named for the

Medvedi, Shwartzman and Gensler, Elon Rimon, and Amir Shapiro, “An

Autonomous Climbing Device for Counter-Terrorism Duty”, $10,000.

2009- Paul Ivanier Center for Robotics, Amir Shapiro and Yael Edan,

“Development of an energy harvesting from human motion device”, $7,500

2009- Paul Ivanier Center for Robotics, Amir Shapiro, “Development of a Mule-

Like Robot”, $5,600

2009- Pearlstone center for Aeronautics research, Amir Shapiro, “Lab equipment

budget”, $1,587

2008-2010 - Israel Ministry of Agriculture, Avital Bechar, Yael Edan, Amir Shapiro,

"Increase efficiency and reduce human labor in vineyards", $81,018

2008-2009 - Israel Ministry of Defense, Amir Shapiro, “Deicing system for UAV wings”,

$125,000

2008-2009- Israel Ministry of Defense, Amir Shapiro and Hugo Guterman,


2008-2010- The Institute for Future Defense Technologies Research Named for the



2008-2010- Israel Ministry of Agriculture, Amir Shapiro, Ohad Ben-Shahar, Yael Edan,

David Shapiro, Baruch Luzon, Boris Bordman, "A Robotic Apparatus for

Spraying and Pollinating Date Palm Trees", $88,235


Yael Edan, “Development of a Technology for Harvesting Energy from

Human Motion” , $79,500.

2007-2010 - Rich Fund for Excellence in the Negev, Amir Shapiro, “Robot Motion

Planning with Quasi-static Force Constraints: Theory and Experiments”,

$100,000.

2007-2008 - The Institute for Future Defense Technologies Research Named for the



2006-2009 – Israel Ministry of Science, Slovenian-Israeli Research Cooperation in

Biotechnology, Robotics, Advanced Materials, BGU: Yael Edan, Ohad Ben-

Shachar, Amir Shapiro. Slovenia: Marko Hoevar, Brane irok, Matevz

Dular, Tom Bajcar, Niko Herakovic, Dragica Noe, Viktor Jejcic, Tone


Godea, Toma Poje, Denis Stajnko, Miran Lakota, "Development of a robotic

system for targeted spraying in orchards and vineyards" , $40,940.

2006-2007 – Israel Ministry of Science the Third Call of the Joint Dutch-Israeli

Agricultural Science and Technology Program - Workshop Proposal, Israel:

Yael Edan, Amir Shapiro, Ohad Ben Shahar, Avital Bechar, Dutch: Jochen

Hemming, Eldert van Henten. " A new approach to future farming: small and

light-weight agrobots", $17,400.

2006-2007 - ICA-Israel Colonization Association, Amir Shapiro, Ohad Ben-Shahar, Yael

Edan, David Shapiro, Baruch Luzon, Boris Bordman, "A Robotic Apparatus

for Spraying and Pollinating Date Palm Trees”, $18,000

2004-2006 - Asher Peled Foundation, Technion, Elon Rimon and Amir Shapiro, "An

Autonomous Climbing Device for Counter-Terrorism Duty", $5,000

2005 - Directorate of Defense Research & Development, Ministry of Defense – State

of Israel, Amir Shapiro, Ariel Felner, Ohad Ben-Shahar, Solomon Eyal

Shimony, Hugo Gutterman, "Request to purchase research equipment at

USA", $72,000

Total Research Grants: $3,228,481

• Present Academic Activities

Books and articles to be published

Submitted for publication

20) Avishai Sintov, Alon Ohev – Zion, Hagai Balshai, Srinivas

Raghothama, Ronland Menassa and Amir Shapiro, "OCOG: A

Common Grasp Computation Algorithm for a Set of Planar

Objects", International Journal of Robotics Research, Submitted.

21) 4. Avishai Sintov, Alon Ohev – Zion, Ronland Menassa and

Amir Shapiro, "3D-OCOG: A Common n-finger grasp Search

Algorithm for a Set of 3D Objects", International Journal of

Robotics Research, Submitted.

22) A. Capua, A. Shapiro, S. Shoval, "SpiderBot: A Cable Suspended Walking Robot", Mechanism and Machines Theory, submitted

23) Yam Geva, and Amir Shapiro, "A Novel Design of a Quadruped

Robot for Research Purposes", Advanced Robotics Systems,

Submitted.


In preparation

24) Shlomo Shemesh and Amir Shapiro, "An Improved Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree Algorithm with Application to Spatial Motion Planning of a Quadrotor Hovercraft", Advanced Robotics Systems

journal, in preparation.

25) Shahar Sarid, Amir Shapiro, Yael Edan, “A Competitive

Search Algorithm for Heterogeneous Group of Robots”, in

preparation.

26) Alon Ohev-Zion, Amir Shapiro, “Stabilizing an Underactuated

robot on a ball: Modeling and Control”, in preparation

• Additional Information

(a) Reviewer in the following scientific journals and conferences

1) Mechanism and Machine Theory2) IEEE Transactions on Robotics3) IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation4) International Journal of Robotics Research5) Autonomous Robots journal6) Journal of Field Robotics7) Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligent8) IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation9) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and

Systems10) 9th Biennial ASME Conference on Engineering

Systems Design and Analysis ESDA 200811) IASTED International Conference on Robotics and

Applications

(b) Media Coverage.1) " The technology market in Herzelia", Ynet, Michel Dor, Nov.

5, 2012. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4301286,00.html

2) "Climbing Robot: Novita Da Israele" (in Italian), Fare elettronica n. 298/299 Aprile/Maggio 2010. http://www.farelettronica.com/

http://www.farelettronica.com/

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4301286,00.html

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4301286,00.html


3) "Securing the Future", Maariv newspaper (in Hebrew), Hamagazin page 10, June 3, 2012. http://www.ifat.com/MediaSite/CustomerMedia/S_ShowItem.aspx?ItemID=LIJxV1A0LWF2iFjOms9Ffw==&InfoTypeID=0&PageIndex=0&BackTo=Newsletter

4) "Second View", Israel Channel 1, Wednsday Dec 21, 2011, at 9:45pm. http://www.iba.org.il/media/?recorded=1

5) "Remote Control War", Thursday August 26, 2011 at 9pm on CBC-TV, http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/video.html?ID=1815694494

6) "Can You Teach A New Robot Old Tricks?", Lori Samlin Miller, Jewish Exponent Feature, February 17, 2011, http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/22902/

7)"Biologically Inspired Robots", Israel Chanel 2 News, Nov 10, 2010, 8:30pm, http://www.mako.co.il/news-military/security/Article-4fec129dd273c21004.htm&sCh=31750a2610f26110&pId=786102762

8)“FIRST Robotic competition and climbing robots”, The Voice of the Campus Radio station, Israel, March 14, 2010.

9)“Boffins Create Robo Climbers”, The Sun, January 22, 2010. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2818441/Boffins-create-robo-climbers.html

10) “4 Ways To Climb a Wall, Robot Edition (Video)”, IEEE Spectrum Blog, Jan 2010, http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/4-ways-to-climb-a-wall-robot-edition-video

11) “Robotics' Wild Kingdom”, IEEE Spectrum, Jan 2010. http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/robotics-wild-kingdom

12) “Spidey’s tricks inspired rescue robot” FlipSide Magazine, Dec 2009 No. 43, page 6.

13) “ The Science Fiction is Here”, Rosh Gadol, Issue 99-100, pages 26-27, Nov-Dec 2009.

14) “ It’s Play Time”, Winter 2009/10, BGU Now, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

15) “BGU’s Robots a Promising Future” Spring 2009, IMPACT, American Association Ben Gurion University.

16) “"Spider-Man" Robot Shoots "Webs", October 5, 2009, National Geographic, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091005-spider-robot-video-ap.html

17) “New Israeli Robots Move Like Animals”, July 23, 2009, Adam Balkin, New York 1 – NY1, http://ny1.com/Default.aspx?ArID=102798&ap=1&Flash

http://ny1.com/Default.aspx?ArID=102798&ap=1&Flash

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091005-spider-robot-video-ap.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091005-spider-robot-video-ap.html

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/robotics-wild-kingdom

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/robotics-wild-kingdom

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/4-ways-to-climb-a-wall-robot-edition-video

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/4-ways-to-climb-a-wall-robot-edition-video

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2818441/Boffins-create-robo-climbers.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2818441/Boffins-create-robo-climbers.html

http://www.mako.co.il/news-military/security/Article-4fec129dd273c21004.htm&sCh=31750a2610f26110&pId=786102762

http://www.mako.co.il/news-military/security/Article-4fec129dd273c21004.htm&sCh=31750a2610f26110&pId=786102762

http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/22902/

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/video.html?ID=1815694494

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/video.html?ID=1815694494

http://www.iba.org.il/media/?recorded=1

http://www.ifat.com/MediaSite/CustomerMedia/S_ShowItem.aspx?ItemID=LIJxV1A0LWF2iFjOms9Ffw==&InfoTypeID=0&PageIndex=0&BackTo=Newsletter




18) “Fun with homeland security robots”, March 25, 2009, Adam Wills, LA Jewish Journal, http://www.jewishjournal.com/geekheeb/item/fun_with_homeland_security_robots_20090325/

19) “Save Falling Elderly” July 7, 2009, Guy Grimland, TheMarker newspaper.

20) “A Word (and video) With the Inventor of the Battlefield Snakebot and the Wall-Scaling Snailbot, Israeli roboticist Amir Shapiro looks to the animal kingdom to design robots that can go where humans can't.”, June 11, 2009John Pavlus, Popular Science, http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-06/meet-inventor-battlefield-snakebot-and-wall-scaling-snailbot#

21) “IDF developing battlefield robot snake”, Dov Lieber, Jerusalem Post, Jun 9,2009,http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371047887&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

22) 2008 August 19, “The Wall Climbing Robot” CalCalist news paper.

23) 2008 Jun. 16, “Gesture Computer Interface Device Developed For Surgeons”, Science Daily.

24) 2008 May, “Work like Robots”, ABG, Ben Gurion University’s Magazine.

25) 2008 March 1, “Technology show starts at NIT-Tiruchi”, The Hindu – India’s National Newspaper, city edition Tiruchirapalli, India.

26) 2004 June, "Spider-Robot", Technion President's Report.

27) 2004 June, "Technion Researchers Developed Spider Robot for Motion in Tunnels Environments", HaTechnion – The Technion Magazine.

28) 2004 June, "Spider-Robot", National Geographic Magazine, Hebrew edition.

29) 2004 May, "Spider-robot to the Rescue", Technion Focus.

30) 2004 May, "Autonomous Techno-Dance", Technion Focus

31) 2004 April 4th, "Spider-Robot", Alex Doron, Maariv newspaper.

32) "Documentry Program on Artificial Intelligent and Robots" Yunsoo Kim, SBS South Korea TV channel, April 5, 2006,

33) "Robocup", Theory of Conspiracy, Israel Galey Tzhahal Radio station, July 26th 2005 10:30pm.

34) "Spider-Robot", Micro-Scoop, Israel Teva-Hadvarim TV channel, August 24th 2004 6:00pm.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371047887&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull



http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-06/meet-inventor-battlefield-snakebot-and-wall-scaling-snailbot#



http://www.jewishjournal.com/geekheeb/item/fun_with_homeland_security_robots_20090325/

http://www.jewishjournal.com/geekheeb/item/fun_with_homeland_security_robots_20090325/


35) "Spider-Robot", Science news, The Israeli TV science channel, June 30th 2004 7:00pm.

36) "RoboCup", Mabat - Israel Channel 1 TV News, May 4th 2002

(c) Advisor of undergraduate senior projects at BGU 1)2013 – 10 projects – 17 students2)2012 – 16 projects – 25 students3)2011 – 18 projects – 28 students4)2010- 6 projects – 8 students5)2009- 12 projects - 23 students6)2008- 22 projects – 34 students

First prize winner of the Naiot venture accelerator ideas competition for medical and biomedical engineering students: Miri Trope, Thinnerscope: development of a robotic endoscope actuated by electro-active-polymers, 2008-2009. Winner of the 2008 Burda prize for excellent project: Daniel Reisner, Development of a Mule-like quadruped robot - Mechanical design, 2006-2008.

7)2007- 10 projects – 19 students8)2006 – 1 project – 2 students9)2005 – 4 projects – 8 students

(d) Fields of InterestMobile Robots

Locomotion of multi-limbed mechanisms in unstructured complex environmentsNavigation Algorithms for multi-limbed robotsNon-Linear control algorithms for multi-limbed robotsLocomotion of snake like robotsClimbing of snake like robotsWall climbing Robots

Multi-Robot on-line motion planningMedical robotics and BioRoboticsAgriculture roboticsRobot grasping design, control, and stability analysisDesign of special robotics structures


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