PAPER PRESENTATION AT IEEE ICRA 2018

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A research paper titled  ‘’Enhancing Overall Object Placement by Understanding Uncertain Spatial and Qualitative Distance Information in User Commands’’  was presented at the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) held from May 21-25 in Brisbane, Australia, by Sachi Edirisinghe, a postgraduate research student in the Department of Electrical Engineering . The manuscript was written by Sachi Edirisinghe, Viraj Muthugala and Chapa Sirithunge under the supervision of Dr.  Buddhika Jayasekara.  The authors are from the Intelligent Service Robotics Group- Department of Electrical Engineering and they  are  working  on  the  development  of  Moratuwa  Intelligent  Robot (MIRob),  an  intelligent  service  robot  for domestic environments. 
The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is the premiere conference in robotics and automation field and is the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. It has the highest H-index in the robotics subject category according to Google Scholar Metrics. The research was funded by a Senate Research Capital Grant (SRC/CAP/2017/03) of University of Moratuwa.