News & Events

A paper co-authored with Mengyu Fu, Kiril Solovey, and Ron Alterovitz titled “Toward Certifiable Optimal Motion Planning for Medical Steerable Needles” has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).

A paper co-authored with Han Zhang, Ariel Felner, T. K. Satish Kumar, Carlos Hernandez, and Sven Koenig titled “Efficient Multi-Query Bi-Objective Search via Contraction Hierarchies” has been accepted for publication in the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS).

Dean's entry not only won first place, decided by a panel of judges, but also won "Crowd Favorite", chosen by all participants of the event.

Our paper, Towards Predicting Fine Finger Motions from Ultrasound Images via Kinematic Representation (by Dean Zadok, Oren Salzman, Alon Wolf, and Alex M. Bronstein), was accepted to the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

Congratulations go to David Vainshtein for rightfully claiming his place in our prestigious list of alumni!

Congratulations go to Dean Zadok on winning 1^st place (tied with Adi Amuzig from CLAIR) in the 10th Annual CS Research Day for Graduate Studies poster competition, for his entry: "Towards Predicting Fine Finger Motions from Ultrasound Images via Kinematic Representation". Good luck in the next phase!

We are delighted to announce the upcoming semester's Technion Robotics Seminars​.

Date	Time	Speaker	Affiliation
03.11.22	14:00	Mauro Salazar	Eindhoven University of Technology
15.11.22	14:00	Quim Ortiz de Haro	Technische Universität Berlin
06.12.22	14:00	Alexander Shleyfman	Bar-Ilan University​
20.12.22	15:00​	Morteza Lahijanian	University of Colorado Boulder
03.01.23	14:00	TBA
17.01.23	14:00​	Igor Gilitschenski	University of Toronto​
07.02.23	13:00	Hanna Kurniawati	Australian National University
21.02.23	14:00​	Davide Scaramuzza	ETH Zurich​
07.03.23	14:00	Jonathan Gammell	University of Oxford

A paper co-authored with Carlos Hernández, William Yeoh, Jorge A. Baier, Han Zhang, Luis Suazo and Sven Koenig, titled “Simple and Efficient Bi-Objective Search Algorithms via Fast Dominance Checks”, was published in Artificial Intelligence.

Nitzan Madar officially completed his M.Sc. studies and submitted his thesis, titled “Leveraging Experience in Lifelong Multi-Agent Pathfinding”.

Will be held in Taub 1 Auditorium, Faculty of Computer Science, Technion. Register here.

Nitzan Madar's paper titled "Leveraging Experience in Lifelong Multi-Agent Pathfinding" (co-authored by Kiril Solovey and Oren Salzman) has been accepted to the 15th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, along with the paper Bounded Cost Bi-Objective Heuristic Search (by Shawn Skyler, Dor Atzmon, Ariel Felner, Oren Salzman, Han Zhang, Sven Koenig, William Yeoh and Carlos Hernandez) and Anytime Approximate Bi-Objective Search (by Han Zhang, Oren Salzman, T. K. Satish Kumar, Ariel Felner, Carlos Hernandez, and Sven Koenig).

Doron Pinsky, CRL's first TASP alumnus, officially completed his M.Sc. studies. His thesis, titled "T*${\varepsilon}$ - Bounded-Suboptimal Efficient Motion Planning for Minimum-Time Planar Curvature-Constrained Systems", published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and to be presented at ICRA 2022, focused on an efficient computation of bounded-suboptimal paths for curvature-constrained variable-speed planar systems.  

A paper co-authored with Han Zhang, Satish Kumar, Ariel Felner, Carlos Hernández and Sven Koenig titled “A*pex: Approximate and Efficient Multi-Objective Search on Graphs” has been accepted for publication in the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS).

A paper co-authored with Mengyu Fu, Kiril Solovey and Ron Alterovitz titled ``Resolution-Optimal Motion Planning for Steerable Needles'' has been accepted for publication in the  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).  

Nir Greshler  completed his M.Sc. studies. His thesis, co-authored with Nahum Shimkin and titled "Cooperative Multi-Agent Path Finding" was presented at MRS 2021. It focused on the coordination aspects of the Multi-Agent Path Finding problem.  

Doron Pinsk's paper titled "$T^*_{\epsilon}$—Bounded Sub-optimal Efficient Motion Planning for Minimum-Time Planar Curvature-Constrained Systems" (co-authored by Petr Váňa and Jan Faigl from Czech Technical University) has been accepted for publication to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

Congradulations to David Weinstein for winning the first prize in the 2021 CS research day for his work on Terraforming Multi Agent Pathfinding. Additional details can be found here.  

Ofir Gordon, CRL's first official alumnus, completed his M.Sc. studies. His thesis, titled “Toward Understanding the Hardness of Multi-Agent Path Finding” and presented at SoCS 2021, focused on the complexity aspects of the Multi-Agent Path Finding problem.  

Our paper titled "Toward Certifiable Motion Planning for Medical Steerable Needles" co-authored with Mengyu Fu and Ron Alterovitz is gaining visibility also in non-academic venues including the Technion's archive (Hebrew), the Jerusalem post, and in the hebrew podcast שלושה שיודעים (interview appears on Oct 10th at 1:03:30).