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​

Tal Arie

talari@post.bgu.ac.il

​Industrial Engineering & Management

​Yael Edan, Tal Oron-Gilad

​Adaptive autonomy for teleoperated mobile robot

​Roni Burdman

roniiburdman@gmail.com​

​Industrial Engineering & Management

​Tal Oron-Gilad

​Development of dynamic proxemics models for HRI​

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​

​Ido Gurevich

idogur@post.bgu.ac.il

​Biomedical Engineering

​Ilana Nisky

​Real-Time Control System for Skill Enhancement in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

Yoav Gurewitz

yoavgur@post.bgu.ac.il

​Mechanical Engineering

​​David Zarrouk

​Construction of a drone for autonomous navigation in tunnels

Nissim Kachlon

nisimk@post.bgu.ac.il

Mechanical Engineering

David Zarrouk and Yael Edan

​Design and development of an amphibious robot for monitoring fish ponds

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, 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

Lotem Sakira
lotemsak@post.bgu.ac.il

​Computer Science

​Ronen Brafman

​Temporal task planning for robotics

​Yael Sznaidman

yaelszn@post.bgu.ac.il

​Industrial Engineering & Management

​Shirley Handelzalts, Yael Edan

​Design of a robotic trainer for upper body physical therapy

Dan Turetzky

​dantu@post.bgu.ac.il

​Industrial Engineering & Management

​Avital Bechar, Yael Edan

​Sensor-based path planning and navigation of agriculture robot for biotic stress monitoring​

Shira Wild​wilds@post.bgu.ac.il​

Software & Information SystemsEngineering

Shahaf Shperberg

​Improving the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles and Robots Using Generative Adversarial Networks