2013

2013

Journal papers

  1. Taylor, John G., Vassilis Cutsuridis, Matthew Hartley, Kaspar Althoefer, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. “Observational Learning: Basis, Experimental Results and Models, and Implications for Robotics.” Cognitive Computation, pp. 340 – 354, vol. 5, no. 3, 2013. PDF
  2. Wijesundera, Isuri, Malka N. Halgamuge, Thas Nirmalathas, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. “A Geographic Primitive-Based Bayesian Framework to Predict Cyclone-Induced Flooding.” Journal of Hydrometeorology,  2013. PDF
  3. Lalitharatne, Thilina Dulantha, Kenbu Teramoto, Yoshiaki Hayashi, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, and Kazuo Kiguchi. “Evaluation of Fuzzy-Neuro Modifiers for Compensation of the Effects of Muscle Fatigue on EMG-Based Control to be Used in Upper-Limb Power-Assist Exoskeletons.” Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, 2013. PDF

Peer Reviewed Conference Papers

  1. Anuradha Ranasinghe, Prokar Dasgupta, Jaques Penders, Kaspar Althoefer, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, “A Two Party Haptic Guidance Controller Via a Hard Rein”, in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2013, Tokyo,  Japan,  pp.116 – 122, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696341,  2013. PDF
  2. J. Konstantinova, M. Li, V. Aminzadeh, P. Dasgupta, K. Althoefer, and T. Nanayakkara, “Force-Velocity Modulation Strategies for Soft Tissue Examination”, in 2013 IEEE International conference on intelligent Robots and systems (IROS), pp.1998 – 2003, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696622, 2013. PDF
  3. Malekzadeh, Milad S., Danilo Bruno, Sylvain Calinon, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, and Darwin G. Caldwell. “Skills transfer across dissimilar robots by learning context-dependent rewards.” In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, pp.1746 – 1751, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696585, 2013. PDF
  4. Pereno, Valerio, Kya Shoar, Giulia Bartoli, Fabio Bianchi, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. “Stable walking on variable visco-elastic terrains using meta-parameters for passive state migration.” In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, pp.3126 – 3131, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696800, IEEE, 2013. PDF
  5. Miguel González-Fierro, Carlos Balaguer, Nicola Swann, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, “A Humanoid Robot Standing Up Through Learning from Demonstration Using a Multimodal Reward Function”, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp. 74 – 79, DOI: 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2013.7029958, 2013. PDF
  6. Anuradha Ranasinghe, Prokar Dasgupta, Jaques Penders, Kaspar Althoefer, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, “An Optimal State Dependent Haptic Guidance Controller Via a Hard Rein”, in 2013 IEEE International Conference on system, man, cybernetics (SMC), Manchaster, UK,  pp. 2322 – 2327, DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2013.397,  (Finalist for the best student paper and IEEE Franklyn V. Taylor memorial award) 2013. PDF
  7. J. Konstantinova, M. Li, V. Aminzadeh, K. Althoefer, P. Dasgupta, and T. Nanayakkara, “Evaluating Manual Palpation Trajectory Patterns in Tele-Manipulation for Soft Tissue Examination” in IEEE Systems Men and Cybernetics (SMC), pp.4190 – 4195, DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2013.714, 2013. PDF
  8. Asuka Takai,  Nouf Alanizi, Kazuo Kiguchi, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. “Prototyping the flexible solenoid-coil artificial muscle, for exoskeletal robots.” In Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), 2013 13th International Conference on, pp.1046 – 1051, DOI: 10.1109/ICCAS.2013.6704071, 2013. PDF