ד"ר אבי וינרב

Publications

Papers in refereed scientific journals:

Weinreb, A., and Bryson A. E. Jr., “Optimal Control with Hard Control Bounds”,
IEEE Trans. On Automatic Control, Vol. AC-30, #11, Nov. 1985.
(Also in the Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Boston, 1985).

Weinreb, A., and Bar-Itzhack, Y. I., “The Psi-Angle Error Equation in Strapdown Inertial Navigation Systems”, IEEE Trans. On Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. AES-14, #3, May 1978.

Chapter in a Book:

Weinreb, A., “SPGMs (Stand-off Precision Guided Missiles) and POPEYE”, in
               DEFENSE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, 1996, PP. 183-186, Sterling Publications.

Presentations in Scientific Forums:

Weinreb, A., “Defense of Populated Areas: Guns? LASERS? Missiles?”
               5^th National Security Conference: Rockets & Missiles – The Challenge, the Response.
               The Fisher Institute, Herzliya, 14-15 May 2009.

               Weinreb, A., “Defense of Populated Areas against Ultra-Short-Range Ballistic Rockets:
               Guns? LASERS? Missiles?”
               25^th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Eilat, December 2008.

               Weinreb, A., “Defense of Populated Areas against Ultra-Short-Range Ballistic Rockets”
               5^th International Conference on Missile Defense, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2008.

Weinreb, A., “Totally Non-Invasive Tumor Ablation Using High Intensity Focused Ultrasound”,
               ISRACAS 2001 (4^th Israeli Conference on Computer Aided Surgery, Medical Robotics &
               Medical Imaging), Tel Aviv, May 2001.

Weinreb, A., “MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment of Breast Cancer Tumors”,
               11^th Int’l Congress on Anti-Cancer Treatment, Symposium on New Imaging in Oncology,
               Paris, Feb. 2001.

Weinreb, A., “Focused Ultrasound”, Physics Seminar, KAMAG, Jan 2001.

Weinreb, A., “Therapeutic Ultrasound”, Hot Topics in OB/GYN Ultrasound, a Joint Meeting of the AIUM  (American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine) and the Israeli Society of Ultrasound in OB/GYN, Tel Aviv, Dec. 2000.

Weinreb, A., “MRI Monitoring and Highly Focused Ultrasound”, Virchow Colloquium on Radio Therapy, Charite Hospital, Humbolt University, Berlin, Nov. 2000.

Weinreb, A., “Using Therapeutic Ultrasound under Visual Control of MRI”,
New Technologies in Clinical Research, Diagnosis and Treatment,
the Annual Conference of the Israeli Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, Haifa, Feb. 2000.

Weinreb, A., “Trends in Avionics of Air-Surface Missiles”,
Avionics 1997, Tel Aviv, March 1997.

Weinreb, A., “The AGM-142 (POPEYE) Air-Surface Missile”,
New Technologies in Air-to-Surface Systems Symposium, London, Feb. 1996.

Weinreb, A., “Optimal Control of a Robotic Arm with Bounded Controls”
Israeli Society of Automatic Control Conference, Herzliya, 1986.

Weinreb, A., and Bryson A. E. Jr., “Minimum Time Control of a Two-Link Robot Arm”,
5^th IFAC Workshop on Control Application of Non-Linear Programming and Optimization,
Capri, Italy, June 1985.

Patent

Mechanical Positioner for MRI-Guided Ultrasound Therapy System (member of a group of inventors).