Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Imperial College London

H-index: 36

Europe-United Kingdom

About Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Thrishantha Nanayakkara, With an exceptional h-index of 36 and a recent h-index of 26 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Imperial College London, specializes in the field of Soft robotics, medical robotics, passive dynamics, morphological computation, haptic based human-robot interaction.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

PaTS-Wheel: A Passively-Transformable Single-Part Wheel for Mobile Robot Navigation on Unstructured Terrain

Self-Reconfigurable Soft-Rigid Mobile Agent With Variable Stiffness and Adaptive Morphology

Leveraging morphological computation for controlling soft robots: Learning from nature to control soft robots

A hierarchical sensorimotor control framework for human-in-the-loop robotic hands

Design Guidelines for Bioinspired Adaptive Foot for Stable Interaction With the Environment

Towards the Neuromorphic Computing for Offroad Robot Environment Perception and Navigation

Robotic monitoring of habitats: The natural intelligence approach

Deformobot: A bio-inspired deformable mobile robot for navigation among obstacles

Thrishantha Nanayakkara Information

University

Position

Director of Morph Lab Associate Professor in Design Eng and Robotics

Citations(all)

4274

Citations(since 2020)

2449

Cited By

2684

hIndex(all)

36

hIndex(since 2020)

26

i10Index(all)

90

i10Index(since 2020)

58

Email

University Profile Page

Imperial College London

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Thrishantha Nanayakkara Skills & Research Interests

Soft robotics

medical robotics

passive dynamics

morphological computation

haptic based human-robot interaction

Top articles of Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

PaTS-Wheel: A Passively-Transformable Single-Part Wheel for Mobile Robot Navigation on Unstructured Terrain

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Thomas Godden

Barry W Mulvey

Ellen Redgrave

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

2024/4/16

Self-Reconfigurable Soft-Rigid Mobile Agent With Variable Stiffness and Adaptive Morphology

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Luiza Labazanova

Shuang Peng

Liuming Qiu

Hoi-Yin Lee

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

...

2023/2/2

Leveraging morphological computation for controlling soft robots: Learning from nature to control soft robots

IEEE Control Systems Magazine

Helmut Hauser

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Fulvio Forni

2023/5/25

A hierarchical sensorimotor control framework for human-in-the-loop robotic hands

Lucia Seminara

Strahinja Dosen

Fulvio Mastrogiovanni

Matteo Bianchi

Simon Watt

...

2023/5/17

Design Guidelines for Bioinspired Adaptive Foot for Stable Interaction With the Environment

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Alok Ranjan

Franco Angelini

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Manolo Garabini

2023/11/3

Towards the Neuromorphic Computing for Offroad Robot Environment Perception and Navigation

arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.03860

Zhenhua Yu

Peter Childs

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

2023/5/5

Robotic monitoring of habitats: The natural intelligence approach

IEEE Access

Franco Angelini

Pierangela Angelini

Claudia Angiolini

Simonetta Bagella

Fabio Bonomo

...

2023/7/11

Deformobot: A bio-inspired deformable mobile robot for navigation among obstacles

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Barry William Mulvey

Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

2023/5/5

Study on soft robotic pinniped locomotion

Dimuthu DK Arachchige

Tanmay Varshney

Umer Huzaifa

Iyad Kanj

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

...

2023/6/28

Tapered whisker reservoir computing for real-time terrain identification-based navigation

Scientific Reports

Zhenhua Yu

SM Hadi Sadati

Shehara Perera

Helmut Hauser

Peter RN Childs

...

2023/3/30

A Method to Use Haptic Feedback of Laryngoscope Force Vector for Endotracheal Intubation Training

Haonan Zhou

Siyu Yang

Lou Halamek

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

2023/5/29

Action augmentation of tactile perception for soft-body palpation

Soft robotics

Luca Scimeca

Josie Hughes

Perla Maiolino

Liang He

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

...

2022/4/1

Roadmap on soft robotics: multifunctionality, adaptability and growth without borders

Multifunctional Materials

Barbara Mazzolai

Alessio Mondini

Emanuela Del Dottore

Laura Margheri

Federico Carpi

...

2022/8/23

A semi-supervised reservoir computing system based on tapered whisker for mobile robot terrain identification and roughness estimation

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Zhenhua Yu

SM Hadi Sadati

Helmut Hauser

Peter RN Childs

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

2022/3/16

Face mediated human–robot interaction for remote medical examination

Scientific reports

Thilina D Lalitharatne

Leone Costi

Ryman Hashem

Ilana Nisky

Rachael E Jack

...

2022/7/22

3d-printed soft sensors for adaptive sensing with online and offline tunable stiffness

Soft Robotics

Liang He

Nicolas Herzig

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Perla Maiolino

2022/12/1

Simulating dynamic facial expressions of pain from visuo-haptic interactions with a robotic patient

Scientific Reports

Yongxuan Tan

Sibylle Rérolle

Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne

Nejra Van Zalk

Rachael E Jack

...

2022/3/10

Soft Tissue Characterisation Using a Novel Robotic Medical Percussion Device With Acoustic Analysis and Neural Networks

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Pilar Zhang Qiu

Yongxuan Tan

Oliver Thompson

Bennet Cobley

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

2022/7/15

A surrogate model based on a finite element model of abdomen for real-time visualisation of tissue stress during physical examination training

Bioengineering

Florence Leong

Chow Yin Lai

Siamak Farajzadeh Khosroshahi

Liang He

Simon de Lusignan

...

2022/11/14

Origami inspired design for capsule endoscope to retrograde using intestinal peristalsis

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Yukun Ge

Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne

Thrishantha Nanayakkara

2022/3/8

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Co-Authors

H-index: 68
Ian Walker

Ian Walker

Clemson University

H-index: 63
Kaspar Althoefer

Kaspar Althoefer

Queen Mary University of London

H-index: 46
Fumiya Iida

Fumiya Iida

University of Cambridge

H-index: 41
Hongbin Liu

Hongbin Liu

King's College London

H-index: 40
Kazuo Kiguchi

Kazuo Kiguchi

Kyushu University

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