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Rone, W., Saab, W., Kumar, A., Ben-Tzvi,
P., “Controller Design, Analysis and Exper-
imental Validation of a Robotic Serpentine
Tail to Maneuver and Stabilize a Quadrupedal
Robot” Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measure-
ment and Control, Transactions of the ASME,
Published Online, February 2019. DOI:
10.1115/1.4042948
Saab, W., Rone, W., Kumar, A., Ben-Tzvi,
P., “Design and Integration of a Novel Spa-
tial Articulated Robotic Tail” IEEE/ASME
Transactions on Mechatronics, Published
online, February 2019. DOI: 10.1109/
TMECH.2019.2897885
Williams, A., Sebastian, B., Ben-Tzvi, P.,
“Review and Analysis of Search, Extraction,
Evacuation, and Medical Treatment Field
Robots” Journal of Intelligent and Robotic
Systems, Published online, February 2019.
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-019-00991-6
Saab, W., Racioppo, P., Ben-Tzvi, P., “A
Review of Coupling Mechanism Designs for
Modular Reconfigurable Robots” Robotica
Journal, Vol. 37, Issue 2, pp. 378-403, Febru-
ary 2019.
Saab, W., Racioppo, P., Kumar, A., Ben-Tz-
vi, P., “Design of a Miniature Modular Inch-
worm Robot with an Anisotropic Friction
Skin” Robotica Journal, Vol. 37, Issue 3, pp.
521-538, March 2019.
Ben-Tzvi and his former Ph.D. student Anil
Kumar, Senior System Integration Engineer
at GM Cruise Automation, were issued the
following US Patent: Ben-Tzvi, P., Kumar,
A., “Linear Optical Sensor Arrays (LOSA)
Tracking System for Active Marker Based 3D
Motion Tracking."
Ben-Tzvi was elected and currently serves as
the Co-Chair of the Technical Program Com-
mittee for the 43rd Mechanisms and Robotics
Conference at the 2019 ASME International
Design Engineering Technical Conferences
(IDETC/CIE), August 2019, Anaheim, CA.
Ben-Tzvi is also serving as Member of
the Technical Program Committee for
the 2019 IEEE International Workshop on
Robotic and Sensors Environments - ROSE
2019, Ottawa, Canada, 17-18 June 2019.
Ban organizes conference
Associate Pro-
fessor Chunmei
Ban is organizing
the Beyond Lith-
ium-ion XII 2019
Conference focus-
ing on transforma-
tional advances in
beyond-lithium energy storage technologies.
Correction
In the previous issue of Momen-
tum, a photo incorrectly said that
Professor Corina Sandu was receiv-
ing the SAE McFarland Award. The
photo (reprinted at left) was taken
at an ASME conference unrelated
to the award. Sandu will receive
the McFarland Award at the SAE
Congress in April.