List of Publications

1. Elon Rimon and Frank van der Stappen, “Immobilizing 2D Serial Chains in Form Closure Grasps”,
Technical report, May 2009

2. Yoav Gabriely and Elon Rimon, "C-Space Characterization of Contact Preserving Paths with Application to Tactile-Sensor Based Mobile Robot Navigation", Technical Report, JUNE 2007

3. Ph.D. Thesis of Yizhar Or, "Frictional Equilibrium Postures for Robotic Locomotion - Computation, Geometric Characterization, and Stability Analysis", Dept. of ME, Technion, May 2007

4. Yizhar Or and Elon Rimon, "Experimental Verification and Graphical Characterization of Dynamic Jamming in Frictional Rigid-Body Mechanics", ICRA 2007

5. Yizhar Or and Elon Rimon, "Geometric Characterization and Experimental Validation of Frictional 3-Contact Equilibrium Stances in Three-Dimensions", ICRA 2007

6. Yizhar Or and Elon Rimon, "New Results on Computing Frictional Equilibrium Stances in Three-Dimensional Gravitational Environments", Technical Report, 2006

7. Yizhar Or and Elon Rimon, "Computation and Graphical Characterization of Robust Multiple-Contact Postures in Two-Dimensional Gravitational Environments", Accepted to Int. Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2006

8. Yizhar Or and Elon Rimon, "Computing 3-Legged Equilibrium Stances in Three-Dimensional Gravitational Environments", ICRA 2006

9. Yoav Gabriely and Elon Rimon, "Competitive Disconnection Detection in On-Line Mobile Robot Navigation", submitted to WAFR 2006

10. Yizhar Or and Elon Rimon, "Computation of Multiple-Contact Frictional Equilibrium Postures in Three-Dimensional Gravitational Environments", Technical Report, 2005

11. Yoav Gabriely and Elon Rimon, CBUG: A quadratically Competitive Mobile Robot Navigation Algorithm, January 2005

12. Yizhar Or and Elon Rimon, "Computation and Graphical Characterization of Robust Multiple-Contact Postures in 2D Gravitational Environments", ICRA 2005

1. Yoav Gabriely and Elon Rimon, Competitive Complexity of Mobile Robot On-Line Motion Planning Problems, October 2004. PS (5MB) , PDF (516KB)

2. Amir Shapiro, "Design and Control of an Autonomous Spider-Like Robot for Motion in 2D Tunnels Environments", Ph.D. Thesis, Technion, Israel, September 2003

3. Yizhar Or and Elon Rimon, "Computation and Graphic Characterization of Robust Multiple-Contact Postures in 2D Gravitational Environments", Technical Report, August 2004

4. Yoav Gabriely and Elon Rimon, "Competitive Complexity of Mobile Robot On-Line Morion Planning Problems", Technical Report, June 2004

5. Yizhar Or and Elon Rimon, "Robust Multiple-Contact Postures in a Two-Dimensional Gravitational Field" , Submitted to ICRA 2004, October 2003

6. Yizhar Or and Elon Rimon, "Robust Multiple-Contact Postures in a Two-Dimensional Gravitational Field" , Technical Report, October 2003

7. Qiao Lin, Joel W. Burdick and Elon Rimon, "Computation and Analysis of Natural Compliance in Fixturing and Grasping Arrangements", Submitted to IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation, February 2003.

8. Amir Shapiro, Elon Rimon and Joel W. Burdick, "Passive Force Closure and its Computation in Compliant-Rigid Grasp", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) October 2001.

9. Yoav Gabriely and Elon Rimon, "On-Line Coverage of Grid Environments by a Mobile Robot", Technical Report, January 2000.

10. Yoav Gabriely and Elon Rimon, "Spanning­Tree Based Coverage of Continuous Areas by a Mobile Robot", Technical Report December 1999.

11. Guy Rodnay and Elon Rimon, "Isometric Visualization of Configuration Spaces of Two­Degrees­of­Freedom Mechanisms", Mechanism and Machine Theory June 2000.

12. Amir Shapiro Elon Rimon and Shraga Shoval, "Immobilization Based Control of Spider Robots in Tunnel Environments", International Journal of Robotics Research, March 2000.

13. Elon Rimon Shraga Shoval and Amir Shapiro, "Design of a Quadruped Robot for Motion with Quasistatic Force Constraints", Autonomous Robots, May 2000.

14. Elon Rimon, "New Bounds on the Number of Frictionless Fingers Required to Immobilize Three­Dimensional Objects", Technical Report, March 1999.

15. Leon Shmoulian and Elon Rimon, "Roadmap ­A^* : an Algorithm for Minimizing Travel Effort in Sensor Based Mobile Robot Navigation",Icra 1998, Leuven Belgium.

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