2022

Journal papers

1. Pilar Zhang Qiu, Yongxuan Tan, Oliver Thompson, Bennet Cobley, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, "Soft Tissue Characterisation Using a Novel Robotic Medical Percussion Device with Acoustic Analysis and Neural Networks", accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2022 [PDF] [Won the best application paper award at IROS 2022]
2. Tan, Yongxuan, Sibylle Rérolle, Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne, Nejra Van Zalk, Rachael E. Jack, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. "Simulating dynamic facial expressions of pain from visuo-haptic interactions with a robotic patient." Scientific reports, Nature Publishing Group 12, no. 1 (2022): 1-11. [PDF]
3. Thilina D. Lalitharatne, Leone Costi, Ryman Hashem, Ilana Nisky, Rachael E. Jack, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Fumiya Iida, “Face Mediated Human-Robot Interaction for Remote Medical Examination”, Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 2022
   Leong, F.; Lai, C.Y.; Khosroshahi, S.F.; He, L.; de Lusignan, S.; Nanayakkara, T.; Ghajari, M. A Surrogate Model Based on a Finite Element Model of Abdomen for Real-Time Visualisation of Tissue Stress during Physical Examination Training. Bioengineering 2022, 9, 687. [PDF]
4. Leong, Florence, Chow Yin Lai, Siamak Farajzadeh Khosroshahi, Liang He, Simon de Lusignan, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, and Mazdak Ghajari. 2022. "A Surrogate Model Based on a Finite Element Model of Abdomen for Real-Time Visualisation of Tissue Stress during Physical Examination Training" Bioengineering 9, no. 11: 687. [PDF]
5. Yu, Zhenhua, Uswatta Liyanage Shehara Perera, Helmut Hauser, Peter RN Childs, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. "A Tapered Whisker-Based Physical Reservoir Computing System for Mobile Robot Terrain Identification in Unstructured Environments." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2022). [PDF]
6. Ge, Yukun, Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. "Origami Inspired Design for Capsule Endoscope to Retrograde Using Intestinal Peristalsis." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7, no. 2 (2022): 5429-5435. [PDF]
7. Yu, Zhenhua, SM Hadi Sadati, Helmut Hauser, Peter RN Childs, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. "A Semi-Supervised Reservoir Computing System Based on Tapered Whisker for Mobile Robot Terrain Identification and Roughness Estimation." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7, no. 2 (2022): 5655-5662. [PDF]
8. He, Liang, Nicolas Herzig, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, and Perla Maiolino. "3D-Printed Soft Sensors for Adaptive Sensing with Online and Offline Tunable Stiffness." Soft Robotics (2022). [PDF]
9. He, Liang, Perla Maiolino, Florence Leong, Thilina Lalitharatne, Simon De Lusignan, Ghajari Mazdak, Fumiya Iida, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. "Robotic Simulators for Tissue Examination Training with Multimodal Sensory Feedback." IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (2022). [PDF]
10. Barbara Mazzolai, Federico Carpi, Koichi Suzumori, Matteo Cianchetti, Thomas Speck, Stoyan K Smoukov, Ingo Burgert, Tobias Keplinger, Gilberto Siqueira, Felix Vanneste, Olivier Goury, Christian Duriez, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Bram Vanderborght, Joost Brancart, Seppe Terryn, Steven Rich, Ruiyuan Liu, Kenjiro Fukuda, Takao Someya, Marcello Calisti, Cecilia Laschi, Wenguang Sun, Gang Wang, Li Wen, Robert Baines, Sree Kalyan Patiballa, Rebecca Kramer, Daniela Rus, Peer Fischer, Friedrich Simmel, Andreas Lendlein, “Roadmap on soft robotics: multifunctionality, adaptability and growth without borders”, Multifunctional Materials, 2022 [PDF]

 Conference papers

1. Pilar Zhang Qiu, Yongxuan Tan, Oliver Thompson, Bennet Cobley, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, "Soft Tissue Characterisation Using a Novel Robotic Medical Percussion Device with Acoustic Analysis and Neural Networks", accepted for publication in IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots (IROS) (Won the best applications paper award), 2022
2. Yu, Zhenhua, Uswatta Liyanage Shehara Perera, Helmut Hauser, Peter RN Childs, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. "A Tapered Whisker-Based Physical Reservoir Computing System for Mobile Robot Terrain Identification in Unstructured Environments." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022.
3.  Ge, Yukun, Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. "Origami Inspired Design for Capsule Endoscope to Retrograde Using Intestinal Peristalsis." IEEE RoboSoft 2022.
4. Yu, Zhenhua, SM Hadi Sadati, Helmut Hauser, Peter RN Childs, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. "A Semi-Supervised Reservoir Computing System Based on Tapered Whisker for Mobile Robot Terrain Identification and Roughness Estimation." IEEE RoboSoft 2022
5. Berkovic, A., Laganier, C., Chappell, D., Nanayakkara, T., Kormushev, P., Bello, F., & Rojas, N. (2022). A Multi-modal Haptic Armband for Finger-Level Sensory Feedback from a Prosthetic Hand. In International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications (pp. 138-146). Springer, Cham, 2022