Publications of Yizhar Or:

 

 

Ph. D. Thesis:   

 

“Frictional Equilibrium Postures for Robotic Locomotion – 
  Computation, Geometric Characterization, and Stability Analysis”,

  Supervised by Elon Rimon, Technion, May 2007 PDF

  Awarded the Pnueli Prize of excellence, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, 2008

 

 

Journals Papers:

 

1. Y. Or and E. Rimon, “Computation and Graphical Characterization of Robust

    Multiple-Contact Postures in Two-Dimensional Gravitational Environments”, Int. J. of

    Robotics Research, 25(11): 1071-1086, 2006 PDF

 

2. E. Rimon, R. Mason, J. W. Burdick and Y. Or, “A General Stance Stability Test

    Based on Stratified Morse Theory with Application to Quasi-Static Locomotion Planning”,

    IEEE Trans. on Robotics, 24(3):626-641, 2008 PDF

 

3. Y. Or and R. M. Murray, “Dynamics and Stability of a Class of Low Reynolds
    Number Swimmers Near a Wall
”, Physical Review E 79(4):045302, 2009 PDF,

    supplementary document PDF

 

4. Y. Or and E. Rimon, “Analytic Characterization of a Class of 3-Contact
    Frictional Equilibrium Postures in 3D Gravitational Environments”,
    Int. J. of Robotics Research, 29(1): 3–22, 2010 PDF

 

5. Darren G. Crowdy and Yizhar Or, “Two-dimensional point singularity model of a low Reynolds
    number swimmer near a wall”,
Physical Review E 81(3):036313, 2010 PDF

 

6. Y. Or, “Dynamics and stability of Purcell's three-link microswimmer near a wall”,

    Physical Review E 82(6):065302(R), 2010 PDF ; supplementary document PDF

 

7. Y. Or and A. R. Teel, “Zeno Stability of the Set-Valued Bouncing Ball”, technical note,
    IEEE Trans. On Automatic Control, 56(2):447-452, 2010.  PDF.
    A supplementary technical report with more details is available here.

 

8. Y. Or and A. D. Ames, “Stability and Completion of Zeno Equilibria in Lagrangian Hybrid
    Systems”, IEEE Trans. On Automatic Control, 56(6):1322-1336, 2011 PDF

 

9. Y. Or, S. Zhang and R. M. Murray, “Dynamics and stability of low-Reynolds-number

      swimming near a wall”, SIAM J. of Applied Dynamical Systems, 10(3):1013-1041, 2011 PDF

 

10. Y. Or and E. Rimon, “Investigation of Painlevé's Paradox and Dynamic Jamming During

    Mechanism Sliding Motion”, Nonlinear Dynamics (in press) DOI: 10.1007/s11071-011-0094-3 PDF

 

11. Y. Or, “Asymmetry and stability of shape kinematics in microswimmers motion”,
       Physical Review Letters 108:258101, 2012. Marked as “Editor’s Suggestion” PDF .
       Supplementary document available here.

 

12. E. Passov and Y. Or, “Dynamics of Purcell's three-link microswimmer with a passive elastic tail”,
      European Physical Journal E 35:78, 2012 PDF. Supplementary document available here.

 

 

 

Refereed Papers in Conference Proceedings:

 

1. Y. Or and E. Rimon, "Robust Multiple-Contact Postures in a Two-

    Dimensional Gravitational Field", Proc. of 2004 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and

    Automation, pp. 4783-4788  PDF

 

2. Y. Or and E. Rimon, "Computation and Graphical Characterization of Robust

   Multiple-Contact Postures in 2D Gravitational Environments", Proc. of 2005 IEEE

   Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp. 247-252  PDF

 

3. Y. Or and E. Rimon, "Computing 3-Legged Equilibrium Stances in Three-

    Dimensional Gravitational Environments", Proc. of 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on

    Robotics and Automation, pp. 1984-1989  PDF

 

4. Y. Or and E. Rimon, "Geometric Characterization and Experimental Validation of

    Frictional 3-Contact Equilibrium Stances in Three-Dimensions", Proc. of 2007

    IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp. 193-198  PDF

 

5. D. Meltz, Y. Or and E. Rimon, "Experimental Verification and Graphical

    Characterization of Dynamic Jamming in Frictional Rigid-Body Mechanics", Proc.

    of 2007 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp. 580-585  PDF

 

6. Y. Or and E. Rimon, "On the Hybrid Dynamics of Planar Mechanisms Supported

    by Frictional Contacts. I: Necessary Conditions for Stability", Proc. of 2008 IEEE

    Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1213-1218  PDF

 

7. Y. Or and E. Rimon, "On the Hybrid Dynamics of Planar Mechanisms Supported

    by Frictional Contacts. II: Stability of Two-Contact Rigid Body Postures", Proc. of

    2008 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1219-1224 PDF

 

8. Y. Or and A. D. Ames, "Stability of Zeno Equilibria in Lagrangian Hybrid

    Systems", Proc. IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control 2008, pp. 2770-2775 PDF

 

9. Y. Or and A. D. Ames, "Formal and Practical Completion of Lagrangian Hybrid

    Systems", Proc. American Control Conference (ACC) 2009, pp. 4221-4226 PDF

 

10. Y. Or and A. D. Ames, “Existence of Periodic Orbits with Zeno Behavior in

    Completed Lagrangian Hybrid Systems”, Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control,

    Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2009, pp. 291-305 PDF.

    Technical report (long) PDF

 

11. Y. Or, J. Vankerschaver, S. D. Kelly, R. M. Murray and J. E. Marsden,

      “Geometric Control of Particle Manipulation in a Two-Dimensional Fluid”,

      to appear in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC) 2009 PDF

      winner of Guan Zhao-Zhi Best Paper Award

 

12. S. Zhang, Y. Or and R. M. Murray, “Experimental demonstration of the dynamics

      and stability of a low Reynolds number swimmer near a plane wall”, in Proc. 2010

      American Control Conference (ACC) pp. 4205-4210 PDF

      Supplemental video files can be found here

 

13. Y. Or and A. R. Teel, “Using the Set-Valued Bouncing Ball for Bounding Zeno

      Solutions of Lagrangian Hybrid Systems”, in Proc. 2010 IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear

      Control Systems (NOLCOS2010) pp. 801-806, PDF

 

14. J. Spitz, Y Or and M. Zacksenhouse, “Towards a Biologically Inspired Open Loop
     Controller for Dynamic Biped Locomotion”, to appear in Trans. IEEE Conf. on
     biomimetics and robotics (ROBIO), 2011 PDF

 

15. B. Gamus and Y. Or. “Analysis of dynamic bipedal robot locomotion with stick-slip transitions”,
      submitted to 2013 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation PDF

 

 

Technical Reports:

 

1. Y. Or and E. Rimon, "Computation and Graphic Characterization of Robust Multiple-Contact

    Postures in 2D Gravitational Environments", 2004, PDF

 

2. Y. Or and E. Rimon, "Computation of Multiple-Contact Frictional Equilibrium Postures in

    Three-Dimensional Gravitational Environments", 2005  PDF

 

3. Y. Or and E. Rimon, "New Results on Computing Frictional Equilibrium Stances in Three-

    Dimensional Gravitational Environments", 2006  PDF

 

4. Y. Or and A. D. Ames, "Stability of Zeno Equilibria in Lagrangian Hybrid Systems",

    California Inst. of Technology, 2008, Technical report CaltechCDSTR:2008.002  PDF

 

5. Y. Or and A. D. Ames, "Existence of Periodic Orbits in Completed Lagrangian Hybrid Systems

     with Non-Plastic Collisions", 2008, Technical Report PDF

 

6. Y. Or and A. R. Teel, “The Set-Valued Bouncing Ball”, longer version PDF.