Dr Anuradha Ranasinghe
SENIOR LECTURER IN ROBOTICS
School of Computer Science and the Environment
0151 291 3891
dissana@hope.ac.uk
Anuradha was awarded her PhD in robotics from King's College London in 2015. Her PhD was funded by EPSRC. Her PhD thesis focuses on haptic-based human control policies and human responses in guiding/following using hard reins in low visibility conditions. Currently, she works as a senior lecturer in robotics at Liverpool Hope University.
Anuradha's current research interests are in the areas of haptics, miniaturised sensors/actuators, and perceptions. Her work was featured in the media nationally and internationally several times. A few examples are: Her work on haptics-based guidance in low visibility conditions was featured in an EPSRC news release and California based CBS Radio in a live interview in 2015. Moreover, her recent work on miniaturised-haptic based sensors was featured in Liverpool Echo, Manchester evening news, North Wales live, and Belfast live in 2020. Furthermore, her work was featured in Techxplore and newsupdateUK in 2022. She was a finalist for the IEEE Franklin V. Taylor memorial award for the best paper in the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics conference in 2013. A PhD supervised by Anuradha as a primary supervisor won a prize in a prestigious competition recognising the best PhD’s in the field of robotics in the UK in 2023. The thesis titled: Fine-grained Haptics: Sensing and Actuating Haptic Primary Colours (force, vibration, and temperature) won the second prize in the Queen Mary UK Best PhD in Robotics Award. Anuradha secured peer-reviewed conference papers in flagship conferences like IROS, ICRA and journals in robotics especially in haptic-based studies.
Anuradha secured peer-reviewed conference papers in flagship conferences in robotics like IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) and high impact factor journals like IEEE Transaction on System, Man, and Cybernetics, PLOS ONE journal, IEEE sensors and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL) recently. Moreover, she shared her findings in invited talks, in International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Solution for Current Challenges in Engineering Technology (ICSISCET-2020) in 2020: is an example as a keynote speaker. Moreover, she was the plenary speaker for IEEE HNICEM 2022 and 2023.
Selected recent publications
Journals
Abad, Alexander Co, David Reid, and Anuradha Ranasinghe. "A novel untethered hand wearable with fine-grained cutaneous haptic feedback." Sensors 22, no. 5 (2022): 1924.
Medagedara, M. Hansika, Anuradha Ranasinghe, Thilina D. Lalitharatne, R. A. R. C. Gopura, and Gayani K. Nandasiri. "Advancements in Textile-Based sEMG Sensors for Muscle Fatigue Detection: A Journey from Material Evolution to Technological Integration." ACS sensors 9, no. 9 (2024): 4380-4401.
Abad, Alexander C., and Anuradha Ranasinghe. "Visuotactile sensors with emphasis on gelsight sensor: A review." IEEE Sensors Journal 20.14 (2020): 7628-7638.
Abad, Alexander C., David Reid, and Anuradha Ranasinghe. "HaptiTemp: A Next-Generation Thermosensitive GelSight-Like Visuotactile Sensor." IEEE Sensors Journal 22.3 (2021): 2722-2734.
Abad, Alexander C., Manex Ormazabal, David Reid, and Anuradha Ranasinghe. "An Untethered Multimodal Haptic Hand Wearable." In 2021 IEEE Sensors, pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2021.
Ranasinghe, Anuradha, Nantachai Sornkarn, Prokar
Dasgupta, Kaspar Althoefer, Jacques Penders, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara.
"Salient feature of haptic-based guidance of people in low visibility
environments using hard reins." IEEE Transactions on cybernetics 46,
no. 2 (2016): 568-579.
Ranasinghe, Anuradha, Prokar Dasgupta, Atulya
Nagar, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. "Human Behavioral Metrics of a
Predictive Model Emerging During Robot Assisted Following Without Visual
Feedback." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 3, no. 3
(2018): 2624-2631.
Ranasinghe, Anuradha, Prokar Dasgupta, Kaspar Althoefer, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. "Identification of haptic based guiding using hard reins." PloS one 10, no. 7 (2015): e0132020
Conferences
Abad, Alexander C., and Anuradha Ranasinghe. "Low-cost gelsight with UV markings: Feature extraction of objects using alexnet and optical flow without 3D image reconstruction." 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, 2020.
Ranasinghe, Anuradha, Jacques Penders, Prokar Dasgupta, Kaspar Althoefer, and Thrishantha Nanayakkara. "A two party haptic guidance controller via a hard rein." In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, pp. 116-122. IEEE, 2013.