2026

C. Hong, J. J. Rajesh and T. D. Lalitharatne (2026), Sensorised Residual Limb Phantoms: An Exploratory Study Towards Developing Physical Twins of Residual Limbs for Prosthetic Socket Testing, 2026 IEEE 9th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 629–634. S. Nadipineni, K. Pandiyan, K. Althoefer, S. Hirai and T. D. Lalitharatne (2026), Robotic Fruits with Tunable Stiffness and Sensing: Towards a Methodology for Developing Realistic Physical Twins of Fruits, 2026 IEEE 9th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 962–967. S. Nadipineni, C. Sirithunge, Y. Xie, F. Iida and T. D. Lalitharatne (2026), Auditory–Tactile Congruence for Synthesis of Adaptive Pain Expressions in RoboPatients, Advanced Robotics Research, e202500138.

2025

C. Sirithunge, Y. Xie, S. Nadipineni, F. Iida and T. D. Lalitharatne (2025), Palpation Alters Auditory Pain Expressions with Gender-Specific Variations in Robopatients, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 7(4), 1600–1611. S. Nadipineni, C. Hong, T. Ramlall, C. Sirithunge, K. Althoefer, F. Iida and T. D. Lalitharatne (2025), Human Emotion-Mediated Soft Robotic Arts: Exploring the Intersection of Human Emotions, Soft Robotics and Arts, 2025 IEEE 8th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 1–6. H. Wang, J. Hughes, T. Nonaka, A. Abdulali, T. D. Lalitharatne and F. Iida (2025), Editorial: AI-Powered Musical and Entertainment Robotics, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 12, 1572828.

2024

Chapa Sirithunge, Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne, Fumiya Iida (2024), Embodiment, Socially Intelligent Behaviour and Proactive Robots, IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 1321 012004. Medagedara M.H., Ranasinghe A., Lalitharatne T.D., Gopura R. A. R. C. and Nandasiri G.K (2024), Advancements in Textile-Based sEMG Sensors for Muscle Fatigue Detection: A Journey from Material Evolution to Technological Integration, ACS Sensors, 9 (9), 4380–4401. Kodagoda G., Perera. G. A. S. U., Lakshitha M. G. D., Senadhilankara K. D. P., Shyam Kularathna A. H. T. and Lalitharatne T.D (2024), Field-Tested Drone Spraying System for Precision Agricultural Applications in Sri Lanka: A Case Study in Paddy Fields, 2024 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2024,, pp. 706–711.

2023

Widanage. K., De Silva M., Lalitharatne T.D., Bull A. and Gopura R (2023), Developments in Circular External Fixators: A Review, Injury. 54. 111157. Dasanayake N. P., Gopura R. A. R. C., Ranaweera R. K. P. S and Lalitharatne T. D (2023), An EMG-based Spatio-spectro-temporal Index for Muscle Fatigue Quantification, 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Busan, Korea, Republic of, 2023,, pp. 263–268. Mulvey, B. W., Lalitharatne, T. D. and Nanayakkara, T (2023), DeforMoBot: A Bio-Inspired Deformable Mobile Robot for Navigation Among Obstacles, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(6), 3827–3834. Protpagorn, N., Lalitharatne, T. D., Costi, L. and Iida, F (2023), Vocal pain expression augmentation for a robopatient, Front Robot AI, 10, 1122914. He, L., Maiolino, P., Leong, F., Lalitharatne, T. D., de Lusignan, S., Ghajari, M.. . . Nanayakkara, T (2023), Robotic Simulators for Tissue Examination Training With Multimodal Sensory Feedback, IEEE Rev Biomed Eng, 16, 514–529.

2022

Protpagorn, N., Costi, L., Lalitharatne, T. D., Nisky, I. and Iida, F (2022), Vocal Pain Expression Augmentation to Improve Interaction Accuracy in Virtual Robopatient, 9th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob),, pp. 1–7. Costi, L., Lalitharatne, T. D. and Iida, F (2022), Soft Control Interface for Highly Dexterous Unilateral Remote Palpation, 9th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob),, pp. 1–8. Lalitharatne, T. D., Costi, L., Hashem, R., Nisky, I., Jack, R. E., Nanayakkara, T. and Iida, F (2022), Face mediated human-robot interaction for remote medical examination, Sci Rep, 12(1), 12592. Ge, Y., Lalitharatne, T. D. and Nanayakkara, T (2022), Origami Inspired Design for Capsule Endoscope to Retrograde Using Intestinal Peristalsis, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 5429–5435. Tan, Y., Rérolle, S., Lalitharatne, T. D., van Zalk, N., Jack, R. E. and Nanayakkara, T (2022), Simulating dynamic facial expressions of pain from visuo-haptic interactions with a robotic patient, Sci Rep, 12(1), 4200. Kondarage, A. I., Poologasundarampillai, G., Nommeots-Nomm, A., Lee, P. D., Lalitharatne, T. D., Nanayakkara, N. D.. . . Karunaratne, A (2022), In situ 4D tomography image analysis framework to follow sintering within 3D-printed glass scaffolds, J Am Ceram Soc, 105(3), 1671–1684.

2021

Kulasekera, A. L., Arumathanthri, R. B., Chathuranga, D. S., Gopura, R. A. R. C. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2021), A thin-walled vacuum actuator (ThinVAc) and the development of multi-filament actuators for soft robotic applications, Sensors and Actuators A Physical, 332, 113088. Kondarage, A. I., Gayani, B., Poologasundarampillai, G., Nommeots-Nomm, A., Lee, P. D., Lalitharatne, T. D.. . . Karunaratne, A (2021), Detection and Tracking Volumes of Interest in 3D Printed Tissue Engineering Scaffolds using 4D Imaging Modalities, Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc Vol. 2021 pp. 1230–1233. Pradeepkumar, J., Anandakumar, M., Kugathasan, V., Lalitharatne, T. D., De Silva, A. C. and Kappel, S. L (2021), Decoding of Hand Gestures from Electrocorticography with LSTM Based Deep Neural Network, Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc Vol. 2021 pp. 420–423. Phillips, J. P., Pirrung, C. J., Weerasinghe, I., Kanishka, G. K., Satharasinghe, Y., Lalitharatne, T. D.. . . Wanigasinghe, J (2021), Portable Acquisition of Auditory ERPs: A Pilot Study of Premature Infants, Pediatr Neurol, 122, 84–88. He, L., Leong, F., Lalitharatne, T. D., de Lusignan, S. and Nanayakkara, T (2021), A Haptic Mouse Design with Stiffening Muscle Layer for Simulating Guarding in Abdominal Palpation Training, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 12588–12594. Costi, L., Scimeca, L., Maiolino, P., Lalitharatne, T. D., Nanayakkara, T., Hashem, R. and Iida, F (2021), Comparative Analysis of Model-Based Predictive Shared Control for Delayed Operation in Object Reaching and Recognition Tasks With Tactile Sensing, Front Robot AI, 8, 730946. Kulasekera, A. L., Arumathanthri, R. B., Chathuranga, D. S., Gopura, R. A. R. C. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2021), A Low-Profile Vacuum Actuator (LPVAc) With Integrated Inductive Displacement Sensing for a Novel Sit-to-Stand Assist Exosuit, IEEE Access, 9, 117067–117079.

2020

Lalitharatne, T. D., Tan, Y., He, L., Leong, F., Van Zalk, N., de Lusignan, S.. . . Nanayakkara, T (2020), MorphFace: A Hybrid Morphable Face for a Robopatient, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(2), 643–650. Naim, A. M., Wickramasinghe, K., De Silva, A., Perera, M. V., Lalitharatne, T. D. and Kappel, S. L (2020), Low-cost Active Dry-Contact Surface EMG Sensor for Bionic Arms, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 3327–3332. Thamel, S. R., Munasinghe, R. and Lalitharatne, T (2020), Motion Planning of Novel Stair-Climbing Wheelchair for Elderly and Disabled People, Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), pp. 590–595. Kulasekera, A. L., Arumathanthri, R. B., Chathuranga, D. S., Lalitharatne, T. D. and Gopura, R. C (2020), A Low-Profile Vacuum Actuator: Towards a Sit-to-Stand Assist Exosuit, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), pp. 110–115. De Silva, A., Perera, M. V., Wickramasinghe, K., Naim, A. M., Lalitharatne, T. D. and Kappel, S. L (2020), Real-Time Hand Gesture Recognition Using Temporal Muscle Activation Maps of Multi-Channel Semg Signals, In ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 1299–1303. Lalitharatne, T. D., Tan, Y., Leong, F., He, L., Van Zalk, N., De Lusignan, S.. . . Nanayakkara, T (2020), Facial Expression Rendering in Medical Training Simulators: Current Status and Future Directions, IEEE Access, 8, 215874–215891.

2019

Mallikarachchi, S., Chinthaka, D., Sandaruwan, J., Ruhunage, I. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2019), Motor Imagery EEG-EOG Signals based Brain Machine Interface (BMI) for a Mobile Robotic Assistant (MRA), IEEE 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), pp. 812–816. Jayarathne, D. U., Vidumal, H. A. K. R., Senevirathne, S. M. A., Jayasekara, P. G. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2019), Vision-based Leader-Follower Mobile Robots for Cooperative Object Handling, 19th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), pp. 747–752. Premarathna, C., Kulasekera, A., Chathuranga, D. and Lalitharatne, T (2019), Development of Wearable Fingertip Tactile Display Driven by Bowden Cables, Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), pp. 621–626. Wijayathunga, N., Lalitharatne, T. D., Chathuranga, D. S. and Jayasekara, B (2019), Development of a Robotic Manipulator to be used in Multirotor Aerial Vehicle, Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), pp. 638–643. Premarathna, C., Kulasekera, A., Chathuranga, D. and Lalitharatne, T (2019), A Novel Fabrication Method for Rapid Prototyping of Soft Structures with Embedded Pneumatic Channels, Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), pp. 430–435. Ruhunage, I., Mallikarachchi, S., Chinthaka, D., Sandaruwan, J. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2019), Hybrid EEG-EMG Signals Based Approach for Control of Hand Motions of a Transhumeral Prosthesis, IEEE 1st Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech), pp. 50–53.

2018

Sandakalum, T., Suraji, S., Weerasekara, I., Lalitharatne, T. and Chathuranga, D (2018), Design and Characterization of a 1-axis Compact Torque Sensor for a Collaborative Robot Arm, IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS), pp. 1–6. Premarathna, C. P., Ruhunage, I., Chathuranga, D. S. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2018), Haptic Feedback System for an Artificial Prosthetic Hand for Object Grasping and Slip Detection: A Preliminary Study, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 2304–2309. Ruhunage, I., Perera, C. J., Munasinghe, I. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2018), EEG-SSVEP based Brain Machine Interface for Controlling of a Wheelchair and Home Appliances with Bluetooth Localization System, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 2520–2525. Arumathanthri, R. B., Abeygoonawardana, B. S. K., Kumarasinghe, I. D. C. D., Chathuranga, D. S., Lalitharatne, T. D. and Kulasekera, A. L (2018), A Soft Robotic Gripper with Sensory Feedback Fabricated by Latex using Coagulant Dipping Process, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 2082–2087. Athukorala, A., Ranasinghe, N., Herath, K., Jayasekara, P. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2018), Scalable Autonomous Agronomical Smartbot, 14th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), pp. 1–6. H., M. C. M. H., R., A. R. C. G. and Thilina, D. L (2018), An Underactuated Linkage Finger Mechanism for Hand Prostheses, Modern Mechanical Engineering, 08(02), 121–139.

2017

Herath, H. M. C. M., Gopura, R. A. R. C. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2017), Prosthetic Hand with a Linkage Finger Mechanism for Power Grasping Applications, IEEE Life Sciences Conference (LSC), pp. 304–307. Premarathna, C. P., Chathuranga, D. S. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2017), Fabrication of a Soft Tactile Display Based on Pneumatic Balloon Actuators and Voice Coils: Evaluation of Force and Vibration Sensations, IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII) pp. 763–768. Ruhunage, I., Perera, C. J., Nisal, K., Subodha, J. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2017), EMG Signal Controlled Transhumeral Prosthetic with EEG-SSVEP Based Approch for Hand Open/Close, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 3169–3174. Herath, H. M. C. W. B., Herath, H. M. S., Sumangala, S. W., de Silva, O., Chathuranga, D. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2017), Design and Development of an Automated Battery Swapping and Charging Station for Multirotor Aerial Vehicles, 17th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), pp. 356–361. Nisal, K., Ruhunge, I., Subodha, J., Perera, C. J. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2017), Design, implementation and performance validation of UOMPro artificial hand: Towards affordable hand prostheses, Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc Vol. 2017 pp. 909–912. Atapattu, S. H., Senevirathna, N. M., Shan, H. L. U., Madusanka, T. B. T., Lalitharatne, T. D. and Chathuranga, D. S (2017), Design and Development of a Wearable Haptic Feedback Device to Recognize Textured Surfaces: Preliminary Study, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), pp. 16–21. Perera, C. J., Lalitharatne, T. D. and Kiguchi, K (2017), EEG-Controlled Meal Assistance Robot with Camera-Based Automatic Mouth Position Tracking and Mouth Open Detection, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 1760–1765. Weerakkody, T. H., Lalitharatne, T. D., Gopura, R. A. R. C., Liyanaarachchi, N. and Herath, C (2017), Development of an Active Shoulder Prosthesis with Low-Level Control Validation, Modelling, Identification and Control. ACTA Press. Weerakkody, T. H., Lalitharatne, T. D. and Gopura, R. A. R. C (2017), Adaptive Foot in Lower-Limb Prostheses, Journal of Robotics, 1–15.

2016

Perera, C. J., Naotunna, I., Sadaruwan, C., Gopura, R. A. R. C. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2016), SSVEP Based BMI for a Meal Assistance Robot, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 002295–002300. Abeysinghe, A., Abeysiriwardena, S., Nanayakkarawasam, R., Wimalsiri, W., Lalitharatne, T. D. and Tennakoon, S (2016), Development of A Numerically Controlled Hot Wire Foam Cutting Machine for Wing Mould Construction, Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), pp. 60–65. Perera, C. J., Naotunna, I., Sandaruwan, C., Kelly-Boxall, N. J., Gopura, R. A. R. C. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2016), Electrooculography Signal based Control of a Meal Assistance Robot, Biomedical Engineering. ACTA Press.

2015

Naotunna, I., Perera, C. J., Sandaruwan, C., Gopura, R. A. R. C. and Lalitharatne, T. D (2015), Meal Assistance Robots: A Review on Current Status, Challenges and Future Directions, IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII) pp. 211–216.

2014

Lalitharatne, T. D., Teramoto, K., Hayashi, Y., Tamura, K. and Kiguchi, K (2014), EEG-based evaluation for perception-assist in upper-limb power-assist exoskeletons, World Automation Congress (WAC) pp. 1–6. Lalitharatne, T. D., Teramoto, K., Hayashi, Y. and Kiguchi, K (2014), Evaluation of Perception-Assist with an Upper-Limb Power-Assist Exoskeleton using EMG and EEG Signals, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, pp. 524–529.

2013

Lalitharatne, T. D., Teramoto, K., Hayashi, Y. and Kiguchi, K (2013), Towards Hybrid EEG-EMG-Based Control Approaches to be Used in Bio-robotics Applications: Current Status, Challenges and Future Directions, Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 4(2), 147–154. LALITHARATNE, T. D., TERAMOTO, K., HAYASHI, Y., NANAYAKKARA, T. and KIGUCHI, K (2013), 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, 7(4), 736. KIGUCHI, K., LALITHARATNE, T. D. and HAYASHI, Y (2013), Estimation of Forearm Supination/Pronation Motion Based on EEG Signals to Control an Artificial Arm, Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design Systems and Manufacturing, 7(1), 74. Lalitharatne, T. D., Hayashi, Y., Teramoto, K. and Kiguchi, K (2013), Compensation of the effects of muscle fatigue on EMG-based control using fuzzy rules based scheme, Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc Vol. 2013 pp. 6949–6952.

2012

Gunasekara, J. M. P., Gopura, R. A. R. C., Jayawardane, T. S. S. and Lalitharathne, S. W. H. M. T. D (2012), Control Methodologies for Upper Limb Exoskeleton Robots, IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII) pp. 19–24. Lalitharatne, T. D., Hayashi, Y., Teramoto, K. and Kiguchi, K (2012), A Study on Effects of Muscle Fatigue on EMG-Based Control for Human Upper-Limb Power-Assist, IEEE 6th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability, pp. 124–128. Lalitharatne, T. D., Yoshino, A., Hayashi, Y., Teramoto, K. and Kiguchi, K (2012), Toward EEG Control of Upper Limb Power-Assist Exoskeletons: A Preliminary Study of Decoding Elbow Joint Velocities Using EEG Signals, International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science (MHS) pp. 421–424.