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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: Married
Children: Five-three sons and two daughters
Regular military service: August 5, 1990 – July 29, 1993
Address and telephone numbers at work:
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
P.O.Box 653 Beer-Sheva, Israel. 84105
Tel.: Int.-972-8-647-7165
Lab: Int.-972-8-647-7029
Fax: Int.-972-8-647-2813
Mobile: Int.-972-50-2029614
Address and telephone number at home:
11 Bosmat St., Metar 85025
Tel: Int.-972-77-9339383
Email address:
Education
B.Sc. 1993-1997 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
Graduated Cum Laude
M.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
Employment History
2011 – present Senior Lecturer, tenured
Department 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 Lecturer
Department 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 analysis
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech – California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
2005 - 2006 Post Doctoral Fellow – BioRobotics
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
2004 - 2005 Post Doctoral Fellow
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
3-9/2004 Lecturer
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management,
Ariel University Center.
1997 - 2004 Teaching Assistant – Robotics, Mechatronics, and Projects
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
1996 - 1997 Research Assistant – Tribology and contact mechanics
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
• 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.
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.
2010- Member and Speaker on the Robotics section of the KinnerNet 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
2009- Member and Speaker on the Robotics section of the KinnerNet conference, Ohalo, Israel
2009- Judge at the FIRST robotics competition, Tel-Aviv, 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
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
2008- Judge at the FIRST robotics competition, Tel-Aviv, 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
2007- Judge at the FIRST robotics competition, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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
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. Students
2007 - 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.
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.
• 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.
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.
Number of citations: 1, Journal Impact Factor: 3.107
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.
Number of citations: 0, Journal Impact Factor: 0.915
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.
Number of citations: 0, Journal Impact Factor: 3.107
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.
Number of citations: 0, Journal Impact Factor: ??
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: 0.893
8) 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: 3.580
9) 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.
Number of citations: 0, Journal Impact Factor: ??
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.