2013
Journal papers
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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