YAEL EDAN
ROBOTICS GENERAL
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Articles in Scientific Journals
Edan, Y. , S.Y. Nof. 1996.
Graphic-based analysis of robot motion economy principles. Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing 12(2): 185-193.Rabinowitz, G., Y. Edan, A. Mehrez. 1996.
CIM laboratory decision and implementation process. International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management 2(2): 1-17.Edan, Y., V. Livshitz. 1999.
CIM Training and Education - principles and implementation.
International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Applications and Practice 6: 81-91.Edan, Y., L. Friedman, A. Mehrez, L. Slutski. 1998.
A three-dimensional statistical framework performance measurement system of robotic systems.
Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing. 14: 307-315.Edan, Y., S.Y. Nof. 2000.
Sensor economy principles and selection procedures.
IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering 32: 195-203.Riemer R. , Y. Edan. 2000.
Evaluation of influence of target location on robot repeatability.
Robotica 18: 443-449.Slutski, L., I. Gurevich , Y. Edan. 2000.
Analysis and enhancement of human-machine interfaces using a joystick controller.
Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing 10(2): 161-175.Edan, Y. and N. Pliskin. 2001. Transfer of software engineering tools from information systems to production systems.
Computers and Industrial Engineering 39(1-2): 19-34.Portman, V., L. Slutski, Y. Edan. 2001.
An adaptive locating problem for robotic grasping.
Robotica 19(3): 295-304.Rogozin, V. , Y. Edan, T. Flash. 2001.
A real-time trajectory modification algorithm.
Robotica 19: 395-405.Berman, S. , Y. Edan, M. Jamshidi. 2002.
Simulation in the development of a control strategy for an Automated Guided Vehicle System.
Systems, Modelling and Simulation 42(4): 575-583. Invited Paper.Berman, S. , Y. Edan. 2002.
A decentralized autonomous AGV system for material handling
International Journal of Production Research 40(15): 3995-4006. Invited Paper.Berman, S. , Y. Edan, M. Jamshidi. 2003.
Decentralized autonomous automatic guided vehicles in material handling.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation 19(4): 743-749.Edan, Y., S. Berman , E. Boteach , E. Mendelson . 2004.
Distributed Multi-Robot Assembly/Packaging Algorithms.
AutoSoft Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing Journal 10(2): 151-159. Special issue on Multi-robots.Shayer, G. , O. Cohen , E. Korach, Y. Edan. 2005.
An adaptive fuzzy logic procedure for ranking logical sensors.
IEEE Transactions on Sensors 5(1): 59-67.Wachs, J. , H. Stern, Y. Edan. 2005.
Cluster labeling and parameter estimation for the automated setup of a hand-gesture recognition system.
IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics – Part A: Systems and Humans 35(6): 932-944.Cohen, O. , Y. Edan, E. Schechtman. 2006.
Statistical evaluation method for comparing grid-map based sensor fusion algorithms.
International Journal of Robotics Research 24(2): 117-133.Kapach, K. , Y. Edan. 2008.
Evaluation of grid-map sensor fusion mapping algorithms. Invited Paper.
IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems 2(2): 13-32. (ISSN: 1646-3692 electronic publication available at http://www.iadis.org/ijcsis/).Wachs, J. , H. Stern, Y. Edan, C. Feied, M. Smith, M. Gillam., J. Handler. 2008.
A real-time hand gesture interface for a medical image guided system.
International Journal of Intelligent Computing in Medical Sciences and Image Processing 1(3)1:175-185.H. I. Stern, J. P. Wachs, Y. Edan. 2008.
Designing hand gesture vocabularies for natural interaction by combining psycho-physiological and recognition factors. Special Issue on Gesture in Multimodal Systems.
International Journal of Semantic Computing 2(1): 137-160.Wachs J. P., H. Stern, Y. Edan, M. Gillam, C. Feied, M. Smith, J. Handler. 2008.
A hand gesture sterile tool for browsing MRI images in the OR.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 15(3):321-323.Cohen, O. , Y. Edan. 2008.
A new framework for on-line sensor and algorithm selection.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems 56(9): 762-776.Edan, Y., N. Finger, B. Sandler, V. Livshitz. 2008.
Bologna process: total quality management and the need to define the purposes of engineering education.
International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education 36(3): 193-206.Berman, S. , E. Schechtman, Y. Edan. 2009.
Evaluation of automatic guided vehicle systems.
Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing 25(3): 522-528.Bechar, A. , J. Meyer, Y. Edan. 2009.
An Objective Function to Evaluate Performance of Human-Robot Systems for Target Recognition Tasks.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C 39(6): 611-630.Shapiro, A., U. Kartoun , H. Stern, Y. Edan. 2010.
Physical modeling of a plastic bag knot in a robot learning system.
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 7(1): 172-176.Wachs, J., M. Kölsch, H. Stern, Y. Edan. 2011.
Vision-based hand gesture interfaces: challenges and innovations.
Communications of the ACM 54(2): 60-71. Cover Article.Tkach, I. , A. Bechar, Y. Edan. 2011.
Switching between collaboration levels in a human-robot target recognition system.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C 41(6): 955-967.D. Shabtai, K. Arviv , H. Stern, Y. Edan. 2014.
A Combined Robot Selection and Scheduling Problem for Flow-Shops with No-Wait Restrictions.
Omega, The International Journal of Management Science 43 (1): 96–107.Arviv, K., H. Stern, Y. Edan. 2015.
Collaborative Reinforcement Learning for a Two Robot Job Transfer
Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem.
International Journal of Production Research: 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2015.1057297Berenstein, R. , Hočevar, M., Godeša, T., Edan, Y., Ben-Shahar, O. 2015.
Distance-Dependent Multimodal Image Registration for Agriculture Tasks
Sensors 15: 20845-62. doi:10.3390/s10.3390/s150820845. Q1.Tkach, I. , Y. Edan, S.Y. Nof. 2017.
Multi-Sensor Task Allocation Framework for Security of Supply Network.
International Journal of Production Research 55(18), 5202-5224.Berenstein, R. , Y. Edan. 2018.
Automatic Adjustable Spraying Device for Site-Specific Agricultural Application.
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science 15(2): 641-650. DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2017.2656143Tkach. I. , A. Jevtić , S. Y. Nof, Y. Edan. 2018.
A Modified Distributed Bees Algorithm for Multi-Sensor Task Allocation.
Sensors (accepted March 2018).Korol G, Karniel A, Melzer I, Ronen A, Edan Y, Stern H, Riemer R.
Relation between perceived effort and the electromyographic signal in localized low-effort activities.
InProceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 2014 Sep (Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 1077-1081).
Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.
Other Reviewed Publications
Slutski, L., Y. Edan. 1995. Universal robot grippers applying high-class mechanisms. Proc. of the 9th World Congress on Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, Milan, Italy, Sept. 1995, Vol. 3: 2267-2271.
Slutski, L., I. Gurevich , Y. Edan. 1997. Analysis and design of telerobot control based on human motor behaviour study. IEEE 1997 Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation: 1016-1021.
Slutski, L., V. Portman, Y. Edan. 1997. Robotic grippers with adaptive locating: structural and kinematic approach. Intl. Robots and Vision Conf., Detroit, Michigan May 12-15.
Slutski, L., Y. Edan, L. Friedman. 1998. Remote control means study for telerobotic operations. Proc. of the 1998 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent and Robot Systems, Victoria BC, Canada: 1609-1614.
Riemer, R. , Y. Edan. 1999. A model for evaluation of robot repeatability. Machines and Industry 60: 71-74 (in Hebrew).
Berman, S. , M.A. de Olieveirat, Y. Edan, M. Jamshidi. 1999. Hierarchical fuzzy behavior-based control of a multi-agent robotic system. Proc. of the 7th Mediterranean Conf. on Control and Automation (MED99), June 28-30, Haifa: 2024-2032.
Berman, S. , Y. Edan, M. Jamshidi A Foraging Group Of Autonomous, Mobile Robots – Implementation Of Hierarchical Fuzzy Behavior-Based Control. The 21st IEEE Convention of the Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel, April, 2000
Cohen, O. , E. Schechtman, Y. Edan, 2000. Sensor fusion quality evaluation tools for autonomous vehicles. Proc. of the IASTED Conf., Robotics and Automation, August 14-16, Honolulu, Hawaii: 192-196.
Berman, S. , Y. Edan, M. Jamshidi. 2000. Multi-agent strategy for automated guided vehicle systems in material handling. World Automation Congress. Third Intl. Symposium on Soft Computing for Industry, Maui, Hawaii.
Cohen, O. , Y. Edan. 2001. Adaptive sensor fusion framework for autonomous vehicles. Proc. of the IASTED Intl. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, September 4-6, Marbella, Spain: 282-286.
Mendelson, E. , O. Nayer , S. Berman , Y. Edan. 2002. Behavior-Based Control of Multi-Robot Assembly/Palletizing Systems. Proc. of the Fifth Biannual World Automation Congress (WAC2002): 1- 6, Orlando, USA, June, 2002.
Shayer, G. , O. Cohen , Y. Edan, E. Korach. 2002. An adaptive fuzzy logic procedure for ranking logical sensory performance. Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Sensors, 1985. pp 1317-1323.
Wachs, J. , U. Kartoun, H. Stern, Y. Edan. 2002. Real-time hand gesture telerobotic system using fuzzy c-means clustering. World Automation Congress, Third Intl. Forum on Multimedia and Image Processing, WAC 2002. Orlando, Florida, June 9-13, vol. 13: 403-409.
Cohen, O. , G. Shayer , Y. Edan. 2003. Behavior analysis of grid-map based sensor fusion algorithms. IASTED Intl. Conf. Robotics and Applications, June 25-27, 2003 Salzburg, Austria.
Granit, Z. , Cohen O. , Y. Edan. 2003. Ultrasonic local mapping algorithms evaluation. The 11th Intl. Conf. on Advanced Robotics, IEEE, June 30 - July 3, 2003, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Wachs, J. , H. Stern, Y. Edan, 2003. Parameter search for an image processing fuzzy C-means hand gesture recognition system. ICIP 2003, Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing, ICIP 2003 Vol. 3, pp. 341-345, Sept. 14-17, Barcelona, Spain.
Laykin, S. , V. Alchanatis, Y. Edan. 2003. On-line Hierarchical Classifier for Agricultural Sorting Systems. Paper Code 3044. ISCA 12th Intl. Conf. on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering (IASSE-2003), July 2003, San Francisco, USA.
Cohen, O. , Y. Edan. 2004. Adaptive fuzzy logic algorithm for grid-map based sensor fusion. Proc. of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV2004), June 2004, Parma, Italy.
E. Mendelson , S. Berman , Y. Edan. 2004. Evaluating the influence of planning horizons on the performance of multi-robot systems. Proc. of the World Automation Conf. June 28 - July 1 2004, Seville (Spain).
H. Stern, J. Wachs , Y. Edan. 2004. Parameter Calibration for Reconfiguration of A Hand Gesture Tele-Robotic Control System. Proc. of the U.S.A.-Japan Symposium on Flexible Automation, July 19-21, 2004. Denver, Colorado. UL-077.
Cohen, O. ,Y. Edan, E. Korach. 2004. Transition matrix methodology for evaluating sensor fusion mapping algorithms. Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Hague, The Netherlands: 3869-3874.
Cohen, O. , Y. Edan. 2004. Adaptive fuzzy logic algorithms for sensor fusion mapping. Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Hague, The Netherlands: 2327-2331.
Cohen, O. , Y. Edan. 2005. A sensor fusion framework for on-line sensor and algorithm selection. Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2005, April 18-22, Barcelona, Spain: 3166-3172.
Berman, S. , E. Mendelson , Y. Parmet, Y. Edan. 2006. Evaluating the influence of planning horizons on the manufacturing lead time of parts in multi-robot workcells. IERC 2006 Conf. Proc., Paper Number 1784.
Shneor, R. , Y. Edan, E. Paz , N. Naor , S. Berman . 2006. Fuzzy dispatching of automated guided vehicles. IERC 2006 Conf. Proc., Paper Number 1785.
Kartoun U. , Stern H., Edan Y., Feied C., Handler J., Smith M. and Gillam M. 2006. Vision-Based Autonomous Robot Self-Docking and Recharging. ISORA 2006 11th Intl. Symposium on Robotics and Applications (Robotics Track) at World Automation Congress (WAC 2006). July 24-27, Budapest, Hungary.
Wachs, J. , H. Stern, Y. Edan, C. Feied, M. Smith, M. Gillam., J. Handler. 2006. A real-time hand gesture system based on evolutionary search. Vision 22(3). Oct. 2006. Dearborn, Michigan, Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
K. Kapach , Y. Edan. 2007. Adaptive weighted average sensor fusion algorithms for mobile robots. IADIS Intl. Conf. Intelligent Systems and Agents: 43-50. Lisbon, July 2007.
K. Kapach , Y. Edan. 2007. Evaluation of grid-map sensor fusion mapping algorithms. Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Oct. 7-10, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Gil A , Stern H, Edan Y., Kartoun U., A Scheduling Reinforcement Learning Algorithm, Proc. of the ASME Intl. Symposium on Flexible Automation, Paper No. U120, June 23-26, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2008.
A. Gil , S. Berman, H. Stern, Y. Edan. 2009. Adaptive task sequencing for a flexible manufacturing system. Intl. Conf. on Production Research, China, July 2009.
K. Arviv , H. Stern and Y. Edan. 2009. Flow-Shop Problem with Job Transfer Robots Using Reinforcement Learning. Intl. Conf. on Production Research, China, July 2009.
S. Berman, T. Godo, Z. Har-Zahav , Y. Parmet, Y. Edan. 2009. Evaluating planning horizon influence in flexible manufacturing systems. Intl. Conf. on Production Research, China, July 2009
S. Sarid , A. Shapiro, E. Rimon, Y. Edan. 2011. Classifying the heterogeneous multi robot online search problem into quadratic time competitive complexity class. Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2011, May 9-13, 2011, Shanghai, China.
H. Stern, K. Arviv , Y. Edan. 2011. Flow-shop robotic scheduling with collaborative reinforcement learning. 21st International Conference on Production Research, July 31 - August 4, 2011, Stuttgart, Germany.
I. Tkach , Y. Edan, S. Y. Nof. 2011. A framework for automatic multi-agents collaboration in target recognition tasks. 21st International Conference on Production Research, July 31 - August 4, 2011, Stuttgart, Germany.
I. Tkach , Y. Edan, S. Y. Nof. 2012. Security of Supply Chains by Automatic Multi-Agents Collaboration. Paper No. 224, INCOM 2012, 14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, May 23-25, Bucharest, Romania.
I. Tkach , Y. Edan, A. Jevtic, S. Y. Nof. 2013. Fault tolerant task allocation in a multi-sensor supply chain monitoring system. 22nd International Conference on Production Research, July 31 - August 4, 2013, Iguassu, Brazil.
K. Arviv, H. Stern, Y. Edan. 2013. Collaborative Reinforcement Learning for a Two Robot Job Transfer Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem. Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Manchester, UK.
Chapters in Books
Cohen, O. , E. Korach, Y. Edan. 2002.
An adaptive fuzzy logic algorithm for measuring and improving autonomous mobile robot sensory performance.
In: Advances in Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Systems, Evolutionary Computation. Artificial Intelligence Series, WSEAS Press. Editors: A. Grmela, N.E. MastorakisKartoun U. , Stern H., Edan Y. 2006.
Bag Classification Using Support Vector Machines.
In: Applied Soft Computing Technologies: The Challenge of Complexity Series: Advances in Soft Computing - Proceedings of the 9th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC9). Abraham, A.; Baets, B.d.; Köppen, M.; Nickolay, B. (Eds.). 2006, XXXIII, 840 p. 324 illus., Softcover, ISBN: 3-540-31649-3.Wachs, J. , H. Stern, Y. Edan, M. Gillam, C. Feied, M. Smith, J. Handler. 2006.
A real-time hand gesture interface for medical visualization applications.
Applications of Soft Computing, Recent trends vol. 36: 153-162. Springer Elsevier.A. Tiwari, J. Knowles, E. Avineri, K. Dahal, R. Roy (Eds.).
Reviewed paper 10th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC10, September 2005).Wachs, J. , H. Stern, Y. Edan, M. Gillam, C. Feied, M. Smith, J. Handler. 2007.
Gestix: a doctor-computer sterile gesture interface for dynamic environments. Advances in Soft Computing 29, Soft Computing in Industrial Applications: Recent and Emerging Methods and Techniques: 30-39. Springer-Verlag, NY. Editors: A. Saad, E. Avineri, K. Daha, M. Sarfraz, R. Roy.
Reviewed paper 11th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, WSC11, November 2006. (30 papers out of 63 submitted were accepted to conference).Berman, S., Y. Edan. 2010.
Intelligent automatic guided vehicles, Chapter 1: 1-17.
In: Intelligent Industrial Systems: Modeling, Automation and Adaptive Behaviour. IGI-Global, USA.
Editor: G.G. Rigatos.Edan, Y. Z. Schmilovitch, V. Alchanati. 2010.
Introduction to Mechatronics, Teaching tutor/complementary readings to Mechatronics:
a multidisciplinary approach by W. Bolton. Open University (in Hebrew). March 2010.
Thesis
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Irine Gurevich, Postdoctorate student, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Advanced teleoperator systems, 1994-1995.
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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.
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Ofir Cohen, Ph.D., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sensor fusion for an autonomous vehicle, 2005. link
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Shachar Sarid, Ph.D., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Multi-robot cooperation, 2007-2011 (with Dr. A. Shapiro). link
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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). Thesis
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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).
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Raziel Reimer, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Performance measurement of robotic systems, April 1998.
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Ofir Cohen, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sensor fusion for an autonomous vehicle, October 2000.
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Ezra Boteach, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Multi-robot assembly systems, June 2000.
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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. link
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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). Thesis
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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).
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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). link
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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. link
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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. link
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Shneor Ran, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Fuzzy dispatching of AGVs, September 2004.
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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).
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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. link
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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). link
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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
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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).
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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). Thesis
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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
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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. link
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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. link
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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).