2017

Journal papers

1. Jelizaveta Konstantinova, Giuseppe Cotugno, Prokar Dasgupta, Kaspar Althoefer, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, “Palpation Force Modulation Strategies to Identify Hard Regions in Soft Tissue Organs”, PLoS ONE, PONE-D-16-31711R2 PDF
2. Giuseppe Cotugno, Kaspar Althoefer, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, “The Role of the Thumb: Study of Finger Motion in Grasping and Reachability Space in Human and Robotic Hands”,  IEEE Transactions on SMC – Systems, pp.1061 – 1070, vol. 47, no. 7, 2017. PDF
3. Sadati, S.M., Naghibi, S.E., Shiva, A., Noh, Y., Gupta, A., Walker, I.D., Althoefer, K. and Nanayakkara, T., 2017. A geometry deformation model for braided continuum manipulators. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 4, p.22, 2017 PDF.
4. Sadati, S.H., Naghibi, S.E., Walker, I.D., Althoefer, K. and Nanayakkara, T., 2018. Control Space Reduction and Real-Time Accurate Modeling of Continuum Manipulators Using Ritz and Ritz–Galerkin Methods. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(1), pp.328-335. PDF
5. Nanayakkara, V.K., Cotugno, G., Vitzilaios, N., Venetsanos, D., Nanayakkara, T. and Sahinkaya, M.N., 2017. The role of morphology of the thumb in anthropomorphic grasping: a review. Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, 3, p.5. PDF

Conference papers:

1. Sadati, S.H., Naghibi, S.E., Shiva, A., Walker, I.D., Althoefer, K. and Nanayakkara, T., 2017, July. Mechanics of Continuum Manipulators, A Comparative Study of Five Methods with Experiments. In Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (pp. 686-702). Springer, Cham. PDF
2. Ranasinghe, A., Althoefer, K., Dasgupta, P., Nagar, A. and Nanayakkara, T., 2017. Wearable Haptic Based Pattern Feedback Sleeve System. In Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (pp. 302-312). Springer, Singapore. PDF