2015

Journal papers

1. Anuradha Ranasinghe, Jacques Pendars, Prokar Dasguptha, Kaspar Althoefer, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, “Salient Features of Haptic Based Guidance of People with Limited Vision Using Hard Reins”, IEEE Transactions on SMC – Cybernetics, pp. 568 – 579, DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2015.2409772, 2015. PDF
2. Miguel González-Fierro, Daniel Hernández Garcia, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Carlos Balaguer, “Behavior Sequencing Based on Demonstrations – a Case of a Humanoid Opening a Door While Walking” in press, Journal of Advanced Robotics, pp. 315-329, 2015. PDF
3. Li, Min, Jelizaveta Konstantinova, Emanuele L. Secco, Allen Jiang, Hongbin Liu, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Lakmal D. Seneviratne, Prokar Dasgupta, Kaspar Althoefer, and Helge A. Wurdemann. “Using visual cues to enhance haptic feedback for palpation on virtual model of soft tissue.” Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, pp. 1177 – 1186, vol. 53, no. 11, 2015. PDF
4. Li, Min, Shan Luo, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Lakmal D. Seneviratne, Prokar Dasgupta, and Kaspar Althoefer. “Multi-fingered haptic palpation using pneumatic feedback actuators.” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 218 (2014): 132-141. PDF
5. Ranasinghe A, Dasgupta P, Althoefer K, Nanayakkara T (2015) Identification of Haptic Based Guiding Using Hard Reins. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0132020. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132020. PDF

Conference papers

1. Maximiliano Francisco Escudero Morland, Kaspar Althoefer, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara, “Novel Method to Form Adaptive Internal Impedance Profiles in Walkers”, 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC-2015), Milano, Italy, pp.7764 – 7767, DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7320192, 2015. PDF
2. Sadati, SM Hadi, Yohan Noh, S. Elnaz Naghibi, Althoefer Kaspar, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. “Stiffness Control of Soft Robotic Manipulator for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) Using Scale Jamming.” In Intelligent Robotics and Applications, pp. 141-151. Springer International Publishing, pp. 141 – 151, 2015. PDF
3. Chathuranga, Damith Suresh, Zhongkui Wang, Yohan Noh, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, and Shinichi Hirai. “Disposable Soft 3 Axis Force Sensor for Biomedical Applications.” In The 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), pp. 5521 – 5524, DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319642, 2015. PDF
4. Damith Suresh Chaturanga, Zhongkuti Wang, Yohan Noh, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, and Shinichi Hirai, “Robust real Time Material Classification Algorithm using Soft Three Axis Tactile Sensor: Evaluation of the Algorithm”, pp.2093 – 2098, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353655, IROS 2015. PDF