Papers
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Total Citations
504
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About
Yizhar Or is a robotics and applied mechanics researcher whose work spans microswimmer locomotion, nonholonomic dynamics, bipedal walking, and soft robotics. His most influential contributions center on the mathematical modeling of biological and robotic locomotion across vastly different physical regimes — from microscale swimmers navigating viscous fluids to legged robots traversing slippery terrain. Or's early work established rigorous theoretical foundations for low-Reynolds-number swimming near boundaries, employing complex analysis and control-theoretic frameworks to analyze stability and wall interactions (65 and 49 citations respectively). He extended this to magnetically actuated microswimmers, developing tractable analytical models critical for biomedical microrobotics design (45 citations). His study of Purcell's three-link swimmer illuminated fundamental symmetry principles governing microswimmer gaits (37 citations). Beyond microscale locomotion, Or has made significant contributions to contact mechanics and bipedal robotics, tackling challenging problems including Painlevé's paradox in rigid-body dynamics, stick-slip transitions in walking robots, and stable bipedal gaits on slippery surfaces. His soft robotics work further bridges fluid mechanics and elastic actuation. With over 300 cumulative citations across diverse domains, Or exemplifies the productive intersection of mathematical rigor and practical engineering insight, making his work essential reading for researchers in robotics, biomechanics, and applied dynamics.
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- 3Simple model of a planar undulating magnetic microswimmer45 citations · 2014
- 4Symmetries and Gaits for Purcell's Three-Link Microswimmer Model37 citations · 2015
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- 8Dynamic Bipedal Walking under Stick-Slip Transitions24 citations · 2015
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