The Agricultural, Biological, and Cognitive (ABC) Robotics Initiative
Awards

MSc Students

Name

Department

Advisors

​Topic​

Nadav Amir

amirnada@post.bgu.ac.il​

​Industrial Engineering & Management

Yael Edan​

​Robotic aquaculture fish monitoring​

Yuval Aroosh

yuvalaro@post.bgu.ac.il

​Industrial Engineering & Management

​Ayal Taitler

​Online Model-Based Robotic Control Algorithms

​Tamir Basson

tamirbas@post.bgu.ac.il

​Mechanical Engineering

Amir ShapiroLarge Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Robotic Navigation in a Dynamic Environment

Elisheva Shiri Dector

decktor@post.bgu.ac.il

​Biomedical Engineering

​Ilana Nisky​

​How skin-stretch on different finger combinations affects haptic object manipulation

​Dan Evron

evrond@post.bgu.ac.il

​Computer Science

​Ronen Brafman

​Optimization of robotic arm control using deep reinforcement learning​

Nadav Katz

nadavkat@post.bgu.ac.il

Mechanical EngineeringDavid ZarroukIn-depth fluid dynamics analysis using a SAW robot

Alon Kaya
Alon.kaya.1@gmail.com

​​Computer Science​

​Igal Bilik

​Few-shot downstream vision tasks using foundation models for robotics​

Linoy Ketashvili

linoyke@post.bgu.ac.il​


Electrical & Computer Engineering


Nir Shlezinger and Ilana Nisky

Data-Aided Kalman Filtering for Tracking of

Cable-Driven Surgical Robots


​Tamir Levin

tamil@post.bgu.ac.il

​Mechanical Engineering

​Amir Shapiro

​Autonomous robot for

selective weed control using electricity

Omri Moshel

omrimosh@post.bgu.ac.il

​​Mechanical Engineering

​David Zarrouk

​STAR SAW - an amphibious wave robot with dynamic legs angle control

Omer Nir

nirome@post.bgu.ac.il

Biomedical Engineering

Shachar Maidenbaum

Binding and Proxemics of Robots Hybridized with Extended Reality

Sapir Rabinovsky

srabinovsky@gmail.com

Biomedical Engineering

Shachar Maidenbaum

Hybridizing extended reality and robotics for rehabilitation

Keren Reif

reifk@post.bgu.ac.il

Industrial Engineering & Management

Sigal Berman

Motion behavior resemblance of a learning robotic arm in NVIDIA Isaac lab environment

Lotem Sakira
lotemsak@post.bgu.ac.il

​Computer Science

​Ronen Brafman

​Temporal task planning for robotics

Roy Vidavski

royvida@post.bgu.ac.il

Industrial Engineering & ManagementTal Oron-GiladThe Mediating Robot (The Robot in The Middle) – Investigating the Role of a Personal Robot as a Mediator Between Assisted Living Residents and Functional (Public/Industrial) Robots