David Dovrat, Ph.D.
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.
In Conference Proceedings
- Adi Amuzig, David Dovrat, and Sarah Keren, "Value of assistance for mobile agents", 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 1594-1600. IEEE, 2023.
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.
Work Experience
Roboticist
Since 2022
Research Assistant
2017 - 2018
Member of Prof. Alfred M. Bruckstein’s research group, focused on Swarm Robotics.
Software Engineer
2012 - 2013
Member of Prof. Miriam Zacksenhouse's Dynamic Locomotion team for Robil, the Israeli entrant to the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
Co - Founder & CTO @ Pointo
2015 - 2017
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.
Software Engineer
2008 - 2012
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.