Publications

Journals

  1. M. A. V. J. Muthugala and A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, “A Review of Service Robots Coping With Uncertain Information in Natural Language Instructions,” in IEEE Access, vol. 6, 2018, pp. 12913-12928,

  2. M. A. V. J. Muthugala, and A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, “Enhancing User Satisfaction by Adapting Robot's Perception of Uncertain Information Based on Environment and User Feedback,” IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 26435 - 26447, 2017.

  3. M. A. V. J. Muthugala, P. H. D. A. S. Srimal and A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, “Enhancing Interpretation of Ambiguous Voice Instructions based on Environment and User’s Intention for Improved Human Friendly Robot Navigation," Applied Sciences special issue on social robotics, vol. 7, no. 8, article no.  821, 2017.

International Conferences

  1. H.M. Ravindu T. Bandara, M.A. Viraj J. Muthugala, A.G. Buddhika P. Jayasekara, D. P. Chandima, “Grounding Object Attributes Through Interactive Discussion for Building Cognitive Maps in Service Robots”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan, Oct. 7-10.

  2. S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon, M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala, A. G. Buddhika P. and Jayasekara, “Identifying Approaching Behavior of a Person During a Conversation: A Human Study for Improving Human-Robot Interaction”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan, Oct. 7-10.

  3. S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon, H. P. Chapa Sirithunge, M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala, A. G. Buddhika P. Jayasekara, “Proxemics and Approach Evaluation by Service Robot Based on User Behavior in Domestic Environment”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018), October, 1-5, 2018, Madrid, Spain.

  4. M. M. S. N. Edirisinghe, A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, “Use of Autobiographical Memory for Enhancing Adaptive HRI in Multi-User Domestic Environment”, 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication(Ro-Man 2018), Nanjing and Tai'an, China, August 27-31, 2018.

  5. H.M. Ravindu T. Bandara, M.A. Viraj J. Muthugala, A.G. B. P. Jayasekara, D. P. Chandima, “Cognitive Spatial Representative Map for Interactive Conversational Model of Service Robot”, 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication(Ro-Man 2018), Nanjing and Tai'an, China, August 27-31, 2018.

  6. H. P. Chapa Sirithunge, M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala, A. G. Buddhika P. Jayasekara, D. P. Chandima, “A Wizard of Oz Study of Human Interest towards Robot Initiated Human-Robot Interaction”, 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication(Ro-Man 2018), Nanjing and Tai'an, China, August 27-31, 2018.

  7. S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon, M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala, A. G. Buddhika P. Jayasekara, “Replicating Natural Approaching Behavior of Humans for Improving Robot's Approach Toward Two Persons During a Conversation”, 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication(Ro-Man 2018), Nanjing and Tai'an, China, August 27-31, 2018.

  8. M. M. S. N. Edirisinghe, M. A. V. J. Muthugala, H. P. C. Sirithunge and A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, "Enhancing Overall Object Placement by Understanding Uncertain Spatial and Qualitative Distance Information in User Commands," in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2018), Brisbane, May 2018.

  9. H. P. C. Sirithunge, A. G. B. P. Jayasekara and D. P. Chandima, "Human attention estimation by a domestic service robot using upper body skeletal information," 2017 IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), Peradeniya, 2017, pp. 1-6.

  10. H. P. C. Sirithunge, A. G. B. P. Jayasekara and D. P. Chandima, “Effect of activity space on detection of human activities by domestic service robots,” TENCON 2017 - 2017 IEEE Region 10 Conference, Penang, Malaysia, 2017, pp. 344-349.<

  11. H. P. C. Sirithunge, P. H. D. A. S. Srimal, A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, “Identification of friendly and deictic gestures in a sequence using upper body skeletal information,” TENCON 2017 - 2017 IEEE Region 10 Conference, Penang, Malaysia, 2017, pp. 3051-3056.

  12. M. A. V. J. Muthugala and A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, “Interpreting Uncertain Information Related to Relative References for Improved Navigational Command Understanding of Service Robots," in 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017), Vancouver, 2017.

  13. M. A. V. J. Muthugala and A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, “Interpreting Fuzzy Directional Information in Navigational Commands Based on Arrangement of the Surrounding Environment,” 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ 2017), Naples, IEEE, 2017, pp. 1-7.

  14. P. H. D. A. S. Srimal, M. A. V. J. Muthugala and A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, “Deictic Gesture Enhanced Fuzzy Spatial Relation Grounding in Natural Language,”, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ 2017), IEEE, Naples, IEEE, Naples, pp. 1-8.

  15. H. P. C. Sirithunge, M. A. V. J. Muthugala, A. G. B. P. Jayasekara and D. P. Chandima, “Interpretation of interaction demanding of a user based on nonverbal behavior in a domestic environment,” 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ 2017), Naples, 2017, pp. 1-8.

  16. P. H. D. A. S. Srimal, M. A. V. J. Muthugala and A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, "Identifying spatial terminology and boundaries for human robot interaction: A human study," 2017 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), Moratuwa, 2017, pp. 46-51.

  17. P. H. D. A. S. Srimal and A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, "A multi-modal approach for enhancing object placement," 2017 6th National Conference on Technology and Management (NCTM), Malabe, 2017, pp. 17-22.

  18. M. A. V. J. Muthugala, and A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, “Interpretation of Uncertain Information in Mobile Service Robots by Analyzing Surrounding Spatial Arrangement Based on Occupied Density Variation," 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2016), Daejeon, IEEE, 2016, pp. 1517-1523.

  19. M. A. V. J. Muthugala, and A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, “Enhancing Human- Robot Interaction by Interpreting Uncertain Information in Navigational Commands Based on Experience and Environment," in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2016), Stockholm, 2016.

  20. M. A. V. J. Muthugala, and A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, “MIRob: An Intelligent Service Robot that Learns from Interactive Discussions while Handling Uncertain Information in User Instructions," in 2016 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), Moratuwa, 2016.

  21. >M. A. V. J. Muthugala, and A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, “Interpreting Fuzzy Linguistic Information in User Commands by Analyzing Movement Restrictions in the Surrounding Environment," in 2015 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), Moratuwa, 2015, pp. 124-129.

  22. M. A. V. J. Muthugala, and A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, “Synthesizing Fuzzy Linguistic Vocal Responses by Adapting Perception of Robot Based on Visual Attention," in 2014 7th Int. Conf. on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS), Colombo, 2014, pp.1-6

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