2016

Journal papers

1. Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Allen Jiang, María. R. Armas Fernández, Hongbin Liu, Kaspar Althoefer, Joao Bimbo, “Stable Grip Control on Soft Objects With Time Varying Stiffness”, in press, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 626-637, 2016. PDF video
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. 1-10, vol. PP, no. 99, 2016. PDF
3. Damith Suresh Chathuranga, Wang, Zhongkui; Noh, Yohan; Thrishantha Nanayakkara; Shinichi Hirai, “Magnetic and Mechanical Modeling of a Soft Three-Axis Force Sensor”, IEEE Sensors, pp.5298 – 5307, vol. 16, no. 13, 2016. PDF
4. Sornkarn N, Dasgupta P, Nanayakkara T (2016) Morphological Computation of Haptic Perception of a Controllable Stiffness Probe. PLoS ONE 11(6): e0156982. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156982 PDF
5. Isuri Wijesundera, Malka Halgamuge, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, “MFPT Calculation for Random Walks in Inhomogeneous Networks”,  Physica A, 462, pp.986-1002, 2016. PDF
6. Nantachai Sornkarn and Thrishantha Nanayakkara, “Can a soft robotic probe use stiffness control like a human finger to improve efficacy of haptic perception?”, in press, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2016. PDF

Conference papers

1. Nantachai Sornkarn and Thrishantha Nanayakkara “The Efficacy of Interaction Behavior and Internal Stiffness Control for Embodied Information Gain in Haptic Perception”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 2657 – 2662, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487425, 2016. PDF
2. Seyedmohammadhadi Sadati, Ali Shiva, Ahmad Ataka, Seyedeh Elnaz Naghibi, Ian Walker, Kaspar Althoefer, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara, “A Geometry Deformation Model for Compound Continuum Manipulators with External Loading”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 4957 – 4962, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487702, 2016. PDF
3. Jelizaveta Konstantinova, Giuseppe Cotugno, Prokar Dasgupta, Kaspar Althoefer, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, “Autonomous Robotic Palpation of Soft Tissue using the Modulation of Applied Force”, 6th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob2016), pp. 323 – 328, DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2016.7523646, June 26-29, 2016, Singapore. PDF
4. Sara Adela Abad Guaman, Nantachai Sornkarn, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, “The role of morphological computation of the goat hoof in slip reduction”, 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5599 – 5605, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759823, 2016. PDF
5. Damith Suresh Chathuranga, Zhongkui Wang, Yohan Noh, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Shinichi Hirai, “A Soft Three Axis Force Sensors that is Useful for Robot Grippers”, 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5556 – 5563, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759817, 2016. PDF
6. Hasitha Wegiriya, Nantachai Sornkarn, Harry Bedford and Thrishantha Nanayakkara, “A Biologically Inspired Multimodal Whisker Follicle” 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2016), PDF
7.  Visakha Nanayakkara, Ahmad Ataka, Demetrios Venetsanos, Olga Duran, Nikolaos Vitzilaios, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, M. Necip Sahinkaya, “kinematic analysis of the human thumb with the foldable palm”, Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2016), pp 226-238, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40379-3_23 PDF