Publications

Pre-prints

• Eran Bamani, Eden Nissinman, Lisa Koenigsberg, Inbar Meir and Avishai Sintov. A Diffusion-based Data Generator for Training Object Recognition Models in Ultra-Range Distance. April 2024.

 

• Abraham Itzhak Weinberg, Alon Shirizly, Osher Azulay and Avishai Sintov. Survey of Learning Approaches for Robotic In-Hand Manipulation. January 2024.

 

• Eran Bamani, Eden Nissinman, Lisa Koenigsberg, Inbar Meir, Yoav Matalon and Avishai Sintov. Recognition and Estimation of Human Finger Pointing with an RGB Camera for Robot Directive. May 2023.

 

2024

• Avi Cohen, Avishai Sintov and David Zarrouk, Motion planning for minimally actuated serial robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Accepted, August 2024 (video).

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• Eran Bamani, Eden Nissinman and Avishai Sintov, Recognition of Dynamic Hand Gestures in Long Distance using a Web-Camera for Robot Guidance. Accepted to ICRA@40, September 2024, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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• Alon Laron, Eran Sne, Yaron Perets and Avishai Sintov, Print-N-Grip: A Disposable, Compliant, Scalable and One-Shot 3D-Printed Multi-Fingered Robotic Hand. Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 147, no. 1, p. 013301, 07 2024 (video).

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• Eran Bamani, Eden Nissinman, Inbar Meir, Lisa Koenigsberg and Avishai Sintov. Ultra-Range Gesture Recognition using a Web-Camera in Human-Robot Interaction. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 132, p. 108443, 2024 (video).

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• Nadav D. Kahanowich and Avishai Sintov, Learning Human-arm Reaching Motion Using IMU in Human-Robot Collaboration. IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 24 855–24 865, 2024 (video).

 

• Inbar Meir, Avital Bechar and Avishai Sintov, Kinematics optimization of a robotic arm for automation tasks with human demonstration. Accepted to the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan (video).

 

• Osher Azulay, Alon Mizrahi, Nimrod Curtis and Avishai Sintov, Augmenting tactile simulators with real-like and zero-shot capabilities. In the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan.

 

• Julius Arolovitch, Osher Azulay and Avishai Sintov, Kinesthetic-based in-hand object recognition with an underactuated robotic hand. In the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan (video).

 

• Alon Mizrahi and Avishai Sintov, TeleFMG: A Wearable Force-Myography Device for Natural Teleoperation of Multi-finger Robotic Hands. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 2933–2940, 2024 (video). Also appeared at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Bari, Italy.

 

• Osher Azulay, Nimrod Curtis, Rotem Sokolovsky, Guy Levitski, Daniel Slomovik, Guy Lilling and Avishai Sintov. AllSight: A Low-Cost and High-Resolution Round Tactile Sensor with Zero-Shot Learning Capability. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 483-490, 2024. Also appeared at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan (video).

 

2023

• Anton Gurevich, Eran Bamani and Avishai Sintov, Learning a data-efficient model for a single agent in homogeneous multi-agent systems. Neural Computing and Applications, 35:20069–20085, 2023 (video).

 

• Avishai Sintov and Inbar Meir, Simple Kinesthetic Haptics for Object Recognition, International Journal of Robotics Research, 42(7):537–561, 2023 (video).

 

• Itamar Mishani and Avishai Sintov, Learning configurations of wires for real-time shape estimation and manipulation planning. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 121:105967, 2023 (video).

 

• Osher Azulay, Inbar Ben-David and Avishai Sintov, Learning Haptic-based Object Pose Estimation for In-hand Manipulation Control with Underactuated Robotic Hands. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 16:1, pp. 73-85, 1, 2023 (video),

 

• Maxim Monastirsky, Osher Azulay and Avishai Sintov, Learning to throw with a handful of samples using decision transformers. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(1):208–215, 2023 (video).

 

• Osher Azulay, Maxim Monastirsky and Avishai Sintov,  Haptic-based and SE(3)-aware object insertion using compliant hands. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, , 8(1):208–215, 2023 . Also appeared in the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK (video).

 

2022

• Cely, J. S., Perez Bayas, M. , Carpio, M., Garcia Cena, C. E., Sintov, A., and Saltaren, R. Control strategy of an underactuated underwater drone-shape robot for grasping tasks. Sensors, 22(22), 2022.

 

• Perez Bayas, M. , Cely, J., Sintov, A., Garcia Cena, C. E., and Saltaren, R. Method to develop legs for underwater robots: From multibody dynamics with experimental data to mechatronic implementation. Sensors, 22(21), 2022.

 

• Noam Nahum and Avishai Sintov. Robotic manipulation of thin objects within off-the-shelf parallel grippers with a vibration finger. Mechanism and Machine Theory. 177:105032, 2022 (video, bibtex).

 

• Itamar Mishani and Avishai Sintov. Real-time Non-visual Shape Estimation and Robotic Dual-Arm Manipulation Control of an Elastic Wire,  in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 422-429, Jan. 2022. Also appeared in the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelpia, PA, USA (video, bibtex).

 

• Eran Bamani, Nadav D. Kahanowich, Inbar Ben-David and Avishai Sintov. Robust Multi-User In-Hand Object Recognition in Human-Robot Collaboration Using a Wearable Force-Myography Device, in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(1):104–111 , 2022. Also appeared in the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK (video, bibtex).

 

2021

• Nadav Kahanowich and Avishai Sintov. Robust classification of grasped objects in intuitive human-robot collaboration using a wearable force-myography device. in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1192-1199, April 2021. Also appeared in the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xian, China (bibtex).

 

2020

• Avishai Sintov, Steven Macenski, Andy Borum and Timothy Bretl. Motion planning for dual-arm manipulation of elastic rods. in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 6065-6072, Oct. 2020. Also appeared at IEEE IROS 2020 (online), Las Vegas, USA (bibtex).

 

• Chen Giladi and Avishai Sintov. Manifold learning for efficient gravitational search algorithm. Information Sciences. Vol 517, pp. 18-36, 2020 (bibtex).

 

• Sintov, A., Kimmel, A., Bekris, K., and Boularias, A. Motion planning with competency-aware transition models for underactuated adaptive hands. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation, Paris, France, 2020.

 

• Schramm, L., Sintov, A., and Boularias, A. Learning to transfer dynamic models of underactuated soft robotic hands. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation, Paris, France, 2020.

 

• Wen, B., Mitash, C., Soorian, S., Kimmel, A., Sintov, A., and Bekris, K. E. FOPA: Fast, occlusion-aware pose estimation for objects grasped by adaptive hands. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation, Paris, France, 2020.

 

• A. Sintov, A. Kimmel, B. Wen, A. Boularias, and K. Bekris, Tools for data-driven modeling of within-hand manipulation with underactuated adaptive hands, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Learning for Dynamics and Control Conf., Berkely, US, 2020.

 

• Sintov, A., Tslil, O. and Frenkel, S. Longitudinal Regrasping of elongated objects. Robotica, 38(4):639–651, 2020.

 

Before 2020

• Avishai Sintov., Andrew Morgan, Andrew Kimmel, Aaron Dollar, Kostas Bekris and Abdeslam Boularias. Learning a state transition model of an underactuated adaptive hand. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters , 4(2):1287–1294, 2019. Also appeared at IEEE  ICRA 2019, Montreal (video, bibtex).

 

• Andrew Kimmel*, Avishai Sintov*, Juntao Tan, Bowen Wen, Abdeslam Boularias, and Kostas E Bekris. Belief-Space Planning Using Learned Models With Application To Underactuated Hands. In International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), Hanoi, Vietnam. *Equal contribution, 2019.

 

• Sintov, A., Borum, A., and Bretl, T. Motion Planning of Fully-actuated Closed Kinematic Chains with Revolute Joints: A Comparative Analysis. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 2886-2893, 2018 (online, bibtex).

 

• Xinke Deng, Zixu Zhang, Avishai Sintov, Jing Huang and Timothy Bretl. Feature-constrained active visual SLAM for mobile robot navigation. In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2018, Brisbane, Australia. (spotlight video).

 

• Sintov, A. Goal state driven trajectory optimization. Autonomous Robots, 2018 (Available online, bibtex).

 

• Zisser, E., Sintov, A., Shapiro, A., and Riemer, R. Position control of a pneumatic actuator under varying external force. Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, 22(4):1157–1174, 2018.

 

• Sintov, A. and Shapiro, A. Dynamic regrasping by in-hand orienting of grasped objects using non-dexterous robotic grippers. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, vol. 50, pp. 114-131,  2018 (online, bibtex).

 

• Avishai Sintov, Or Tslil and Amir Shapiro. Robotic swing-up regrasping manipulation based on impulse-momentum approach and cLQR control. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. vol.PP, no.99, pp.1-12, 2016. (at IEEE, bibtex)

 

• Avishai Sintov, Roland Menassa and Amir Shapiro. A gripper design algorithm for grasping a set of parts in manufacturing lines. Mechanism and Machine Theory, Vol 105, 1-30, June 2016.

 

• Avishai Sintov and Amir Shapiro, Swing-up regrasping using energy control. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2016, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

• Avishai Sintov and Amir Shapiro. An analysis of grasp quality measures for the application of sheet metal parts grasping. Autonomous Robots. Available on-line, Dec. 2015 (online).

 

• Avishai Sintov and Amir Shapiro, Automatic design algorithm of a robotic end-effector for a set of sheet-metal parts. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), July 2015, Angkor-Wat, Cambodia.

 

• Avishai Sintov and Amir Shapiro, A Stochastic Dynamic Motion Planning Algorithm for Object-Throwing, IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), May 2015, Seattle, WA, USA.

 

• Avishai Sintov, Ronland Menassa and Amir Shapiro, OCOG: A Common Grasp Computation Algorithm for a Set of Planar Objects, The Journal of Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Vol 30 (2), 124-141, April 2014.

 

• Avishai Sintov and Amir Shapiro. A computational algorithm for dynamic regrasping using non-dexterous robotic end-effectors. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI), October 2014, Rome, Italy.

 

• Avishai Sintov and Amir Shapiro. Time-Based RRT Algorithm for Rendezvous Planning of Two Dynamic Systems, IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), June 2014, Hong-Kong, China.

 

• Avishai Sintov, Ronland Menassa and Amir Shapiro, On the Computation of a Common n-finger Robotic Grasp for a Set of Objects, International Journal of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Vol 7 (11), 34-41, Nov. 2013.

 

• Avishai Sintov and Amir Shapiro. Search algorithm for a Common design of a Robotic End-Effector for a Set of 3D objects. Proceedings of the International Conference on Innovations in Engineering and Technology (ICIET), Dec. 2013, Bangkok, Thailand.

 

• Avishai Sintov, R. Menassa and A. Shapiro. On the Computation of a Common n-finger Robotic Grasp for a Set of Objects. International Conference on Automotive and Mechanical Engineering (ICAME), Nov. 2013, Paris, France.

 

• Nir Levi, Gregory Kovelman, Amit Geynis, Avishai Sintov and Amir Shapiro. The DARPA virtual robotics challenge experience. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), pages 1–6, Oct. 2013, Linkoping, Sweden.

 

• Avishai Sintov, Srinivas Raghothama, Roland Menassa and Amir Shapiro, A Common 3-finger grasp Search Algorithm for a Set of Planar Objects, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), pp. 1091-1096, August 20-24, 2012, Seoul, Korea.

 

• Avishai Sintov, Tomer Avramovich, Amir Shapiro, Design and Motion Planning of an Autonomous Climbing Robot with Claws, The Journal of Robotics and Autonomous systems, Vol. 59 (11), 1008-1019, Nov. 2011.

 

Theses

• Nadav Kahanowich, Learning human intention recognition through natural motion for intuitive human-robot interaction, March 2022.

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• Itamar Mishani, Dual-arm robotic manipulation of wires using solely force/torque feedback, June 2022.

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• Noam Nahum, Robotic manipulation of thin objects within off-the-shelf parallel grippers with a vibration finger, November 2022.

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• Inbar Meir, Optimal configuration of a robotic manipulator to perform a specific task in a cluttered environment, November 2022.

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• Maxim Monastirsky, Learning to Throw with a Handful of Samples using Decision Transformers, December 2022.