Dr. Dor Atzmon Wins Prestigious MOST Research Grant

Dr. Dor Atzmon won the prestigious MOST grant offered by the Ministries of Innovation, Science, and Technology in Israel and The Czech Republic for the project “Robust Execution of Multi-Robot-Path-Finding Plans.” Dr. Atzmon is an expert in planning robust paths in multi-agent environments via heuristic search methods. His research is a collaborative endeavor with Prof. Meir Kalech from Ben-Gurion University, an expert on diagnosis and repair of errors in artificial intelligence; and Prof. Roman Barták from Charles University in Prague, who specializes in designing robust paths in multi-agent environments using constraint programming methods.

The goal of their research is to combine tools from the world of AI diagnostics, which are supposed to detect in advance possible collisions of robots in motion, and develop methods of efficiently avoiding them,” shares Dr. Atzmon. “Robots sometimes malfunction in-action, which could lead to issues such as collisions that amount to physical damage and monetary losses. With the methods developed in this research, robots will be able to perform without the threat of collisions, even under unexpected conditions. Our methods will be particularly useful in places where operation relies on numerous robots working simultaneously, such as smart warehouses.”