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  • Yael Edan. M.Sc. Determination of an algorithm defining the motions of a fruit picking robot. Technion. 1988

  • Yael Edan. Ph.D. Control and design of an intelligent agricultural robot. Purdue University. 1990

  • Avital Bechar, Ph.D., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Human-robot collaboration methods for target recognition in unstructured environments. February 2006. Thesis

  • Ron Bernstein, Ph.D., Human-robot cooperation in selective spraying, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, July 2016. Thesis

  • Ephraim Vitzrabin, Ph.D., Dynamic local thresholding using sensor fusion, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, January 2015.

  • George Adamides, Ph.D., User Interfaces for Human-Robot Interaction: Application on a Semi-Autonomous Agricultural Robot Sprayer User Interface Design Specification for Human-Agricultural Robot Interaction, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus, August 2016.  (with Thanasis Hadzilacos). Thesis

  • Adi Bar, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Systems Engineering of an automatic transplanting system, March 2000.

  • Pini Elkabetz, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, System design and decision support system for a site-specific sprayer, August 2008. Thesis

  • Ron Bernstein, M.Sc., Image processing algorithms for a selective vineyard sprayer, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, October 2010.

  • Itamar Dar. M.Sc. Image processing for a greenhouse robotic sprayer. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, September 2011 (with Dr. A. Bechar).

  • Zohar Melamed Elkoby. M.Sc., Analysis of Human-Robot Harvesting Operations in Sweet Pepper Greenhouses. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. April 2016. (with Bert van ’t Ooster, WUR). Thesis

  • Kurtser, P. Ph.D. Dynamic sensing, and task planning for an autonomous harvesting robot. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  October 2018.

  • Ben Harel. M.Sc. Algorithms for sweet pepper color estimation. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  Oct 2017. (with Y. Parmet).

  • Elie Zemmour, M.Sc. Adaptive thresholding algorithm for fruit detection. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Sept. 2018. Thesis

  • George Adamides, Ph.D., User Interfaces for Human-Robot Interaction: Application on a Semi-Autonomous Agricultural Robot Sprayer User Interface Design Specification for Human-Agricultural Robot Interaction, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus, August 2016.  (with Thanasis Hadzilacos). Thesis

  • Dor Oppenheim, M.Sc., Computer vision algorithms for detection of tomato flowers in greenhouses. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Oct 2015-2017. (with Guy Shani). Thesis

  • Liad Livne, M.Sc., Systems engineering of a robotic sprayer for greenhouses, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, October 2010 (with Dr. A. Bechar). Thesis

  • Kurtser Polina . Ph.D. Dynamic sensing, and task planning for an autonomous harvesting robot. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  October 2018. Thesis

  • Ben Harel. Ph.D. Development of intelligent maturity classification and decision algorithms for a selective harvesting robot. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  Sep 2017 . (with Yisrael Parmet).  Thesis.

  • Tohar Brenner, M.Sc, An Insect Collecting Robot: Branches Identification and Robot Motion for Improved Detection, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, February 2023, Thesis.

HUMAN ROBOT COLLABORATION & INTERACTION
SOCIAL ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS 

  • Danny Eizicovitz. Postdoctorate. Robotic gaming for physical therapy. (with Shelly Levy Tzedek).

  • Raziel Riemer, Postdoctorate student, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, A comprehensive approach for measuring stress involved in hand gestures language for human machine interaction, 2006-2008.

  • Tal Sobol-Shikler, Postdoctorate student, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Affective interfaces for human-robot collaboration, 2007-2009.

  • Roy Someshwar, Ph.D., Human-robot synchronization for time-critical tasks, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, June 2017. (with Prof. J. Meyer). Thesis

  • Guillaume Doisy, Ph.D., Human robot interface design for robots with learning capabilities, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, October 2014. (with Joachim Meyer). Thesis

  • Oded Zafrani, Ph.D., Acceptance of personal robotic assistants for older adults. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  Oct 2017-current. (with Galit Nimrod).

  • Samuel Olatunji. Ph.D., Feedback and LOA in social robots for older adults. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  April 2021. (with T. Oron-Gilad). Thesis

  • Avital Bechar, Ph.D., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Human-robot collaboration methods for target recognition in unstructured environments. February 2006. Thesis

  • Juan Wachs, Ph.D., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Optimal Hand Gesture Language Design Methodology for Robotic Control. 2006. (with Prof. H. Stern). Thesis

  • Uri Kartoun, Ph.D., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Human-Robot Collaborative Learning Methods. 2007. (with Prof. H. Stern). Thesis

  • Juan Wachs, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Telerobotic Hand Gesture Real-time System, June 2003. (with Prof. H. Stern).

  • Eliav Ami, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Hand gesture control of a mobile robot, July 2005.

  • Yuval Oren, M.Sc., Performance analysis of human-robot collaboration in target recognition tasks, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, October 2008 (with Dr. A. Bechar). Thesis

  • Hadasa Blum-Ivri, M.Sc., Evaluating different human-robot interfaces, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, November 2009. (with Dr. A. Ronen). Thesis

  • Dror Yashpe, M.Sc., Influence of human reaction time in human robot collaborative target recognition systems, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, December 2009 (with Dr. A. Bechar). Thesis

  • Zohar Melamed Elkoby. M.Sc. Analysis of Human-Robot Harvesting Operations in Sweet Pepper Greenhouses. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. April 2016. (with Bert van ’t Ooster, WUR). Thesis

  • Dror Katz. M.Sc. Development of algorithms for a human-following robot equipped with Kinect vision and laser sensors in an unknown indoor environment with obstacles and corners. September. 2016. Thesis

  • Lior Sayfeld, M.Sc., Human-robot collaboration: performance measures of different populations working with a robotic system (elderly vs. children; female vs. male; experienced vs. novice). Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. June 2017. Thesis

  • Igal Peretz, M.Sc., Adaptive algorithm for human experience in a human-robot handover task. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. June 2017. Thesis.

  • Omri Avioz-Sarig. M.Sc. Robotic system for physical training of older adults. December 2019. Thesis.

  • Noa Markfeld, M.Sc., Feedback for human-robot collaboration. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. January 2021. Thesis, PPT.

  • Dana Gutman, M.Sc., LOA in human-robot collaboration. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. January 2021. Thesis, PPT.

  • Tair Faibish, M.Sc., Gaze Behaviors in Human-to-Robot Handovers.. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. January 2022. PDF,  PPT

  • Oded Zafrani, PhD, Between fear and trust: Factors influencing older adults’ evaluation of social assistive robots, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management,  Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Jul 2022. PDF

  • Omer Keidar, M.Sc. Human-Robot Interaction: Interaction Modes and Levels of Explanation in Mobile Robotic Telecare Tasks, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management,  Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, November 2022, (Prof. Yael Edan), Thesis, PPT.

  • Naama Aharony, M.Sc., Transparency-Based Action Model for Improved Human Robot Interaction, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management,  Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, September 2023, Thesis.

  • Shachar Laykin, Ph.D., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, On-line feature selection for a sorting system.  2006. (with Dr. V. Alchanatis). Thesis

  • Ephraim Vitzrabin, Ph.D., Dynamic local thresholding using sensor fusion, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, January 2015. 

  • Ben Harel, Ph.D., Development of intelligent maturity classification and decision algorithms for a selective harvesting robot. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  Oct 2017-current. (with Yisrael Parmet).

  • Roiee Spoliinsky. M.Sc.  Automatic body condition scoring using three dimensional computer vision. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. August 2014.  (with Prof. I. Halachmi). Thesis

  • Dina Rachmani, M.Sc., Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Technion, Neural Networks for Quality sorting of Tomatoes Based on Mechanical Properties. December 1995.  (with Dr. I. Shumelvich). link

  • Ilan Halachmi, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, A Model for Estimating Individual Food Intake of Dairy Cows, Oct. 1996. (with Dr. E. Maltz) 

  • Ido Morag, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Optimal strategies for individual feeding of dairy cows, Sept. 1996. (with Dr. E. Maltz) 

  • Shachar Laykin, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Multi-sensor quality control system for agricultural produce, 2001 (with Dr. V. Alchanatis).

  • Shoshana Weizmann, M.Sc., Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University, Methodology for implementation of ISO9000 for a nursery propagation greenhouse. Research seminar. July 2001. 

  • Dror Shriki, M.Sc., Implementation of cognitive task analysis methodology for characterization and design of hand-held terminal for data collection in herb farms, Feb.  2004 (with Prof. J. Meyer, Dr. A. Hetzroni) Thesis

  • Shachar Matza, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Milking frequency decision support system, June 2004. (with Dr. E. Maltz). 

  • Tomer Ram, M.Sc., Prediction of optimal olive harvest time, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, March 2008 (with Prof. Z. Weisman). Thesis

  • Paula Shirley Berman, M.Sc., Development of Intelligent Low Resolution NMR Technologies for Prediction of Large-Scale Quantitative and Qualitative Oilseeds Biodiesel Industry Potential, Dept. of Environmental Engineering, January 2010. (with Prof. Z. Wiesman). Thesis

  • Ephraim Vitzrabin , M.Sc., Classification between vegetation and non-vegetation using hyper-spectral imaging, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, October 2010 (with Dr. V. Alchanati). Thesis

  • Ron Bernstein, M.Sc., Image processing algorithms for a selective vineyard sprayer, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, October 2010. 

  • Amos Bercovich, M.Sc., Automatic cow's body condition scoring. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, October 2012. (with Dr. I. Halachmi). Thesis

  • Ben Harel, M.Sc., Algorithms for sweet pepper color estimation. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  Oct 2015-2017. (with Y. Parmet).

  • Dor Oppenheim, M.Sc., Computer vision algorithms for detection of tomato flowers in greenhouses. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Oct 2015-2017. (with Guy Shani). Thesis

  • Elad Dan, M.Sc., Deterministic and stochastic models for light attenuation and controlling algorithm for microalgal growth. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Oct. 2017 (with Claude Aflalo, Yisrael Parmet). Thesis

  • Elie Zemmour, M.Sc., Adaptive thresholding algorithm for fruit detection. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Sept. 2018. Thesis

  • Shahar Gad, M.Sc., Stress detection in wheat using hyperspectral imaging. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  April 2017-February 2020. (with V. Alchanatis). Thesis, PPT.

  • Ran Bezen, MSc., Monitoring food intake in the dairy farm. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  October 2017-2019. (with I. Halachmi). Thesis, PPT.

  • Aharon Kalantar, MSc., Melon recognition for yield detection. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  October 2017-2019. (with Y. Klapp). Thesis, PPT.

  • Tidhar Sandovsky, MSc., Disease detection in corn using hyperspectral imaging. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. February, 2021. (with V. Alchanatis). Thesis

  • Almog Hitelman. M.Sc. Development of a mobile system for counting laying hens. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. September 2021. Thesis, PPT.

  • Bar Cohen. M.Sc. Disease detection (downy mildew) in grapevine using thermal imaging. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. September 2021. Thesis, PPT.

  • May Saar. M.Sc. Computer vision system for measuring individual cow feed intake using RGBD camera. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. September 2021. Thesis, PPT.

  •  Chen Rothschild, M.Sc., Computer vision system to count crustacean larvae, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, December 2022,(Prof. Yael Edan, Prof. Amir Sagi). Thesis, PTT.

SOCIAL COGNITIVE ROBOTICS

  • Oded Zafrani, Ph.D., Acceptance of personal robotic assistants for older adults. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  Oct 2017-current. (with Galit Nimrod).

  • Samuel Olatunji, Ph.D., Feedback and LOA in social robots for older adults. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  April 2021. (with T. Oron-Gilad). Thesis

  • Omri Sarig, M.Sc., Social robot for physical training – evaluation of feedback aspects. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  December 2019. Thesis

  • Noa Markfeld, M.Sc., Feedback for human-robot collaboration. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. January 2021. Thesis

  • Dana Gutman, M.Sc., LOA in human-robot collaboration. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. January 2021. Thesis

ROBOTICS GENERAL

  • Irine Gurevich, Postdoctorate student, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Advanced teleoperator systems, 1994-1995. 

  • Sigal Berman, Ph.D., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Intelligent control of multi-agent robotic systems, December 2003. Thesis

  • Ofir Cohen, Ph.D., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sensor fusion for an autonomous vehicle, 2005. Thesis

  • Shachar Sarid, Ph.D., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Multi-robot cooperation, 2007-2011 (with Dr. A. Shapiro). Thesis

  • Kfir Arviv, Ph.D., Flow-shop problem with M machines and K transport robots using reinforcement learning, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, April 2014. (with Prof. H. Stern, Prof. Dvir Shabtai). 

  • Dima Rogozin, M.Sc., Dept. of Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science. Robotic Control of Dynamic Tasks. November 1993. (with Prof. T. Flash). 

  • Raziel Reimer, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Performance measurement of robotic systems, April 1998. 

  • Ofir Cohen, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sensor fusion for an autonomous vehicle, October 2000. 

  • Ezra Boteach, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Multi-robot assembly systems, June 2000. 

  • Itai Keneth, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, A path tracking system for an autonomous vehicle, October 2000. Thesis

  • Juan Wachs, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Telerobotic Hand Gesture Real-time System, June 2003. (with Prof. H. Stern).

  • Uri Kartoun, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Virtual Reality TeleRobotic System, December 2003 (with Prof. H. Stern). Thesis

  • Ayelet Sheizaf, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Adaptive algorithms for multi-robot packaging systems operating in flexible manufacturing environments, January 2005. Thesis

  • Mendelson Ella, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Evaluating the influence of planning horizons on the manufacturing lead time of parts in multi-robot workcells, October 2004. Thesis

  • Shneor Ran, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Fuzzy dispatching of AGVs, September 2004. 

  • Kapach Keren, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Evaluation of adaptive sensor fusion algorithms for mapping mobile robots environment, August 2007. Thesis

  • Yuval Oren, M.Sc., Performance analysis of human-robot collaboration in target recognition tasks, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, October 2008 (with Dr. A. Bechar). Thesis

  • Amit Gil, M.Sc., Collaborative hierarchical reinforcement learning methods, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, November 2008 (with Prof. H. Stern). Thesis

  • Itzhak Takach, M.Sc., Switching between collaboration levels in target recognition tasks. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, December 2008 (with Dr. A. Bechar). 

  • Kfir Arviv, M.Sc., Flow-shop problem with M machines and K transport robots using reinforcement learning, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, February 2010. (with Prof. H. Stern). 

  • Uri Shaham, M.Sc., Classification using normalized compression distance, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, February 2009 (with Dr. J. Ratsaby). Thesis

  • Lior Sayfeld, M.Sc., Human-robot collaboration: performance measures of different populations working with a robotic system (elderly vs. children; female vs. male; experienced vs. novice). Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. June 2017. Thesis

  • Igal Peretz, M.Sc., Adaptive algorithm for human experience in a human-robot handover task. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. June 2017. Thesis

  • Yaar Harrari. M.Sc. Automated design process for lifting, carrying and lowering tasks. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. June 2016 (with Raziel Riemer, Avital Bechar).

  • Nurit Lavie, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Decision support system for evaluation of breathing conditions of babies and neonates.  September 2004. (with Profs. E. Zmora, N. Pliskin). 

  • Tzafit Tirkel, M.Sc. SIT LESS. A prototype home-based system for monitoring older adults sedentary behavior. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Sept. 2016. Thesis

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