Four members of the Intelligent Service Robotics Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering have presented research papers at 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) held from Aug 27-31, Nanjing and Tai'an, China. They are working on development of MIRob (Moratuwa Intelligent Robot), an Intelligent service robot for domestic environments under the Supervision of Dr. Buddhika Jayasekara. It is commendable that the researchers of the Department of Electrical Engineering were able to present their work at this premier forum of the Human - Robot Interaction (HRI) field. These research were funded by the Senate Research Grants No: SRC/CAP/2017/03 and SRC/LT/2018/20.
Dr. Viraj Muthugala is presenting a paper at a Poster Session (Title: Cognitive Spatial Representative Map for Interactive Conversational Model of Service Robot, Authors: H.M. Ravindu T. Bandara, M.A. Viraj J. Muthugala, A.G. Buddhika P. Jayasekara, D.P. Chandima)

Bhagya Samarakoon is presenting a paper at a formal session (Title: Replicating Natural Approaching Behavior of Humans for Improving Robot's Approach toward Two Persons During a Conversation, Authors: S.M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon, M.A. Viraj J. Muthugala, A.G. Buddhika P. Jayasekara)

Chapa Sirithunga is presenting a paper at a formal session (Title: A Wizard of Oz Study of Human Interest towards Robot Initiated Human-Robot Interaction, Authors: H.P. Chapa Sirithunge, M.A. Viraj J. Muthugala, A.G. Buddhika P. Jayasekara, D.P. Chandima)

Sachi Edirisinghe is presenting a paper at a formal session (Title: Use of Autobiographical Memory for Enhancing Adaptive HRI in Multi-User Domestic Environment, M.M.S.N. Edirisinghe, A.G.B.P. Jayasekara)

Department of Electrical Engineering congratulates, Dr. Viraj Muthugala, for successful completion of the PhD degree under the supervision of Dr. Buddhika Jayasekara. This is the first PhD of the intelligent service robotics group, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa. It is commendable that you have achieved more than typical international level of research outcome in Robotics field with an exceptional list of publications including flagship conferences like IEEE ICRA and IROS. Furthermore, we would like to thank you for the hard work in establishing state of art facilities in service robotics with the funding from SRC Capital grants and guiding the junior students of service robotics group of the Department during last four years.   
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Wu6gMCEAAAAJ&hl=en.
Home page: http://www.virajmuthugala.info/home
 

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.