Experience

Since 2019	Roboticist	Designed & Built Robots for research; Initiated and maintained academic-industry-community relations; Managed robotics research laboratories - MARS, CRL and CLAIR.
2017-2018	Research Assistant	Member of Prof. Alfred M. Bruckstein’s research group, focused on Swarm Robotics.
2012-2013	Software Engineer	Participated in Robil, the Israeli entrant to the DARPA Robotics Challenge, as software specialist in the Dynamic Locomotion team led by Prof. Miriam Zacksenhouse.

Pointo

2015 - 2017
Co - Founder & CTO

Led all technological aspects of the company, including technological roadmap & vision, research & development.
Responsible for the design, implementation and deployment of the product from the idea stage, including system architecture, underlying algorithms, user interface, cloud platform, etc.
Managed the development team (in-house and out-source) & active management member.

2008 - 2012
Software Engineer

R&D, including the software design of the reactive path planning module for the Guardium unmanned ground vehicle (UGV).
Led the module’s design, implementation and integration with other modules from drawing board to deployment in the field.
Implemented various mechanisms for the Overhead Remote Control Weapon Station (ORCWS) family of products.

Education

2022	Ph.D.
2017	M.Sc.
2009	B.Sc.

Publications

Journal Papers

David Dovrat, Twinkle Tripathy, and Alfred M. Bruckstein, "On tracking and capture in proportional-control bearing-only unicycle pursuit", IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 2132–2137, 2022.
David Dovrat and Alfred M. Bruckstein, "Antalate - a multi-agent autonomy framework", Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 8, Aug. 2021.
David Dovrat and Alfred M. Bruckstein, "On gathering and control of unicycle a(ge)nts with crude sensing capabilities", IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 40–46, Nov./Dec. 2017.

Technical Reports

David Dovrat, "An Automata Theory Method for the Analysis of Unicycle Pursuit Problems", Ph.D. Thesis, PHD-2022-05, supervised by Prof. Alfred M. Bruckstein, Technion.
David Dovrat, Twinkle Tripathy, and Alfred M. Bruckstein, “Capture states of proportional-control unicycles with bearing-only sensing in pursuit of a constant velocity target”, Technical Report, CIS-2021–02, Dec. 2021.
David Dovrat, Twinkle Tripathy, and Alfred M. Bruckstein, “Path-Following States of Proportional-Control Unicycles with Bearing-Only Sensing in Pursuit of a Constant Velocity Target”, Technical Report, CIS-2021–01, Dec. 2021.
David Dovrat, "Gathering & Collective Movement of Unicycle A(ge)nts with Crude Sensing Capabilities", M.Sc. Thesis, MSC-2017-06, supervised by Prof. Alfred M. Bruckstein, Technion.
David Dovrat and Alfred M. Bruckstein, “Gathering & Collective Movement of Unicycle A(ge)nts with Crude Sensing Capabilities”, Technical Report, CIS-2017-02, Dec. 2021.

In the Media

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