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
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
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.
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
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:
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
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