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  • Luo S, Mou W, Li M, Althoefer K and Liu H (2014). Rotation and translation invariant object recognition with a tactile sensor. Proceedings of IEEE Sensors  vol. 2014-December, (December) 1030-1033. 10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985179
  • Goncalves A, Abrantes J, Saponaro G, Jamone L and Bernardino A (2014). Learning intermediate object affordances: Towards the development of a tool concept. IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2014 - 4th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics  482-488. 10.1109/DEVLRN.2014.6983027
  • Vicente P, Ferreira R, Jamone L and Bernardino A (2014). Eye-hand online adaptation during reaching tasks in a humanoid robot. IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2014 - 4th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics  175-180. 10.1109/DEVLRN.2014.6982978
  • Li M, Ridzuan MB, Sareh S, Seneviratne LD, Dasgupta P and Althoefer K (2014). Pseudo-haptics for rigid tool/soft surface interaction feedback in virtual environments. Mechatronics  vol. 24, (8) 1092-1100. 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2014.07.004
  • He W, Wang Y and Shaheed MH (2014). Modelling of osmotic energy from natural salt gradients due to pressure retarded osmosis: Effects of detrimental factors and flow schemes. Journal of Membrane Science  vol. 471, 247-257. 10.1016/j.memsci.2014.08.002
  • Tunnicliffe LB, Kadlcak J, Morris MD, Shi Y, Thomas AG and Busfield JJC (2014). Flocculation and viscoelastic behaviour in carbon black-filled natural rubber. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering  vol. 299, (12) 1474-1483. 10.1002/mame.201400117
  • Jamone L, Damas B and Santos-Victor J (2014). Incremental learning of context-dependent dynamic internal models for robot control. 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, ISIC 2014  1336-1341. 10.1109/ISIC.2014.6967617
  • Jamone L, Fumagalli M, Natale L, Nori F, Metta G and Sandini G (2014). Control of physical interaction through tactile and force sensing during visually guided reaching. 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, ISIC 2014  1360-1365. 10.1109/ISIC.2014.6967621
  • Kyriakidou G, Jakobsson A, Gudmundson E, Gregorovi? A, Barras J and Althoefer K (2014). Improved modeling and bounds for NQR spectroscopy signals. European Signal Processing Conference  2325-2329.
  • He W, Wang Y, Sharif A and Shaheed MH (2014). Thermodynamic analysis of a stand-alone reverse osmosis desalination system powered by pressure retarded osmosis. Desalination  vol. 352, 27-37. 10.1016/j.desal.2014.08.006
  • Qi P, Liu H, Seneviratne L and Althoefer K (2014). Towards kinematic modeling of a multi-DOF tendon driven robotic catheter. 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014  3009-3012. 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944256
  • Manwell T, Vitek T, Ranzani T, Menciassi A, Althoefer K and Liu H (2014). Elastic mesh braided worm robot for locomotive endoscopy. 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014  848-851. 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943724
  • Noh Y, Secco EL, Sareh S, Wurdemann H, Faragasso A, Back J, Liu H, Sklar E and Althoefer K (2014). A continuum body force sensor designed for flexible surgical robotics devices. 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014  3711-3714. 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944429
  • Stilli A, Wurdemann HA and Althoefer K (2014). Shrinkable, stiffness-controllable soft manipulator based on a bio-inspired antagonistic actuation principle. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems  2476-2481. 10.1109/IROS.2014.6942899
  • Qi P, Qiu C, Liu H, Dai JS, Seneviratne L and Althoefer K (2014). A novel continuum-style robot with multilayer compliant modules. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems  3175-3180. 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943002
  • Müller R, Hörauf L, Vette M, Martin JLS, Alzaga A, Hohmann J, Althoefer K and Würdemann H (2014). Robot guided bolt tensioning tool with adaptive process control for the automated assembly of wind turbine rotor blade bearings. Production Engineering  vol. 8, (6) 755-764. 10.1007/s11740-014-0557-8
  • Li M, Luo S, Nanayakkara T, Seneviratne LD, Dasgupta P and Althoefer K (2014). Multi-fingered haptic palpation using pneumatic feedback actuators. Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical  vol. 218, 132-141. 10.1016/j.sna.2014.08.003
  • Chen J, Mahfouf M and Sidahmed G (2014). A new holistic systems approach to the design of heat treated alloy steels using a biologically inspired multi-objective optimisation algorithm. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence  vol. 37, 103-114. 10.1016/j.engappai.2014.08.014
  • Cotugno G, Mohan V, Althoefer K and Nanayakkara T (2014). Simplifying grasping complexity through generalization of kinaesthetically learned synergies. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation  5345-5351. 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907645
  • Faragasso A, Bimbo J, Noh Y, Jiang A, Sareh S, Liu H, Nanayakkara T, Wurdemann HA and Althoefer K (2014). Novel uniaxial force sensor based on visual information for minimally invasive surgery. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation  1405-1410. 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907036
  • Wanninayake IB, Seneviratne LD and Althoefer K (2014). Estimation of tissue stiffness using a prototype of air-float stiffness probe. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation  1426-1431. 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907039
  • Back J, Bimbo J, Noh Y, Seneviratne L, Althoefer K and Liu H (2014). Control a contact sensing finger for surface haptic exploration. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation  2736-2741. 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907251
  • Sareh S, Jiang A, Faragasso A, Noh Y, Nanayakkara T, Dasgupta P, Seneviratne LD, Wurdemann HA and Althoefer K (2014). Bio-inspired tactile sensor sleeve for surgical soft manipulators. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation  1454-1459. 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907043
  • Noh Y, Sareh S, Back J, Wurdemann HA, Ranzani T, Secco EL, Faragasso A, Liu H and Althoefer K (2014). A three-Axial body force sensor for flexible manipulators. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation  6388-6393. 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907802
  • Li M, Faragasso A, Konstantinova J, Aminzadeh V, Seneviratne LD, Dasgupta P and Althoefer K (2014). A novel tumor localization method using haptic palpation based on soft tissue probing data. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation  4188-4193. 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907468
  • Salerno M, Zhang K, Menciassi A and Dai JS (2014). A novel 4-DOFs origami enabled, SMA actuated, robotic end-effector for minimally invasive surgery. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation  2844-2849. 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907267
  • Weiszer M, Chen J, Ravizza S, Atkin J and Stewart P (2014). A heuristic approach to greener airport ground movement. Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2014  3280-3286. 10.1109/CEC.2014.6900372
  • Jiang A, Ranzani T, Gerboni G, Lekstutyte L, Althoefer K, Dasgupta P and Nanayakkara T (2014). Robotic Granular Jamming: Does the Membrane Matter? Soft Robotics  vol. 1, (3) 192-201. 10.1089/soro.2014.0002
  • Yamaguchi K, Thomas AG and Busfield JJC (2014). Stress relaxation, creep and set recovery of elastomers. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics  10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2014.07.004
  • Zhang K, Qiu C and Dai JS (2014). Helical Kirigami-Inspired Centimeter-Scale Worm Robot With Shape-Memory-Alloy Actuators. Conference: Volume 5B: 38th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference  10.1115/detc2014-34676
  • He W, Yang W and SHAHEED MH (2014). Energy and thermodynamic analysis of power generation using a natural salinity gradient based pressure retarded osmosis process. Desalination  vol. 350, 86-94. 10.1016/j.desal.2014.07.015
  • Lalitharatne TD, Teramoto K, Hayashi Y, Tamura K and Kiguchi K (2014). EEG-based evaluation for perception-assist in upper-limb power-assist exoskeletons. Conference: 2014 World Automation Congress (WAC)  10.1109/wac.2014.6935909
  • Cianchetti M, Ranzani T, Gerboni G, Nanayakkara T, Althoefer K, Dasgupta P and Menciassi A (2014). Soft Robotics Technologies to Address Shortcomings in Today's Minimally Invasive Surgery: The STIFF-FLOP Approach. Soft Robotics  vol. 1, (2) 122-131. 10.1089/soro.2014.0001
  • Steur E, Michiels W, Huijberts H and Nijmeijer H (2014). Networks of diffusively time-delay coupled systems: Conditions for synchronization and its relation to the network topology. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena  vol. 277, 22-39. 10.1016/j.physd.2014.03.004
  • Zhang K and Dai JS (2014). Trifurcation of the Evolved Sarrus-Motion Linkage Based on Parametric Constraints. Advances in Robot Kinematics  10.1007/978-3-319-06698-1_36
  • Qi P, Liu C, Zhang L, Wang S, Lam HK and Althoefer K (2014). Fuzzy logic control of a continuum manipulator for surgical applications. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014  413-418. 10.1109/ROBIO.2014.7090366
  • Lalitharatne TD, Teramoto K, Hayashi Y and Kiguchi K (2014). Evaluation of Perception-Assist with an Upper-Limb Power-Assist Exoskeleton using EMG and EEG Signals. Conference: Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control  10.1109/icnsc.2014.6819681
  • HANSARD M, Horaud R, Amat M and Evangelidis G (2014). Automatic detection of calibration grids in time-of-flight images. Computer Vision and Image Understanding  vol. 121, 108-118. 10.1016/j.cviu.2014.01.007
  • Ye W, Fang Y, Zhang K and Guo S (2014). A new family of reconfigurable parallel mechanisms with diamond kinematotropic chain. Mechanism and Machine Theory  vol. 74, 1-9. 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2013.11.011
  • Zhang K and Dai JS (2014). A kirigami-inspired 8R linkage and its evolved overconstrained 6R linkages with the rotational symmetry of order two. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics  vol. 6, (2) 10.1115/1.4026337
  • Xie H, Jiang A, Wurdemann HA, Liu H, Seneviratne LD and Althoefer K (2014). Magnetic resonance-compatible tactile force sensor using fiber optics and vision sensor. IEEE Sensors Journal  vol. 14, (3) 829-838. 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2281591
  • Kong KTS, Mariatti M, Rashid AA and Busfield JJC (2014). Enhanced conductivity behavior of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) hybrid composites containing exfoliated graphite nanoplatelets and carbon nanotubes. Composites Part B: Engineering  vol. 58, 457-462. 10.1016/j.compositesb.2013.10.039
  • Ataollahi A, Fallah AS, Seneviratne LD, Dasgupta P and Althoefer K (2014). Novel force sensing approach employing prismatic-tip optical fiber inside an orthoplanar spring structure. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics  vol. 19, (1) 121-130. 10.1109/TMECH.2012.2222906
  • Jiang A, Adejokun S, Faragasso A, Althoefer K, Nanayakkara T and Dasgupta P (2014). The granular jamming integrated actuator. 2014 International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ARIS 2014  12-17. 10.1109/ARIS.2014.6871512
  • Karim R, Ma YL, Jang M, Housden RJ, Williams SE, Chen Z, Ataollahi A, Althoefer K, Rinaldi CA, Razavi R, O'Neill MD, Schaeftter T and Rhode KS (2014). Surface flattening of the human left atrium and proof-of-concept clinical applications. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics  vol. 38, (4) 251-266. 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2014.01.004
  • Fra? J, Czarnowski J, Macia? M and G?ówka J (2014). Static modeling of multisection soft continuum manipulator for stiff-flop project. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing  vol. 267, 365-375. 10.1007/978-3-319-05353-0_35
  • Qiu C, Qi P, Liu HB, Althoefer K and Dai JS (2014). Six dimensional compliance analysis of ortho-planar springs for a continuum manipulator. Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference  vol. 5A, 10.1115/DETC2014-34607
  • Rowe MD, Smith JAS, Barras J and Althoefer K (2014). Nuclear quadrupole resonance of pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) in different compositions. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics  35-43. 10.1007/978-94-007-7265-6_3
  • Rowe MD, Smith JAS, Barras J and Althoefer K (2014). Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance of Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) in Different Compositions. MAGNETIC RESONANCE DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVES AND ILLICIT MATERIALS  35-43. 10.1007/978-94-007-7265-6__3
  • Li M, Ranzani T, Sareh S, Seneviratne LD, Dasgupta P, Wurdemann HA and Althoefer K (2014). Multi-fingered haptic palpation utilizing granular jamming stiffness feedback actuators. Smart Materials and Structures  vol. 23, (9) 10.1088/0964-1726/23/9/095007
  • Althoefer K (2014). MRI-safe robots. Why are they not yet routinely used? BJU International  vol. 113, (6) 975-976. 10.1111/bju.12706
  • Gonçalves A, Saponaro G, Jamone L and Bernardino A (2014). Learning visual affordances of objects and tools through autonomous robot exploration. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, ICARSC 2014  128-133. 10.1109/ICARSC.2014.6849774
  • Liu H, Sangpradit K, Li M, Dasgupta P, Althoefer K and Seneviratne LD (2014). Inverse finite-element modeling for tissue parameter identification using a rolling indentation probe. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing  vol. 52, (1) 17-28. 10.1007/s11517-013-1118-6
  • Li M, Liu H, Jiang A, Seneviratne LD, Dasgupta P, Althoefer K and Wurdemann H (2014). Intra-operative tumour localisation in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery: A review. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine  vol. 228, (5) 509-522. 10.1177/0954411914533679
  • Konstantinova J, Jiang A, Althoefer K, Dasgupta P and Nanayakkara T (2014). Implementation of tactile sensing for palpation in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery: A review. IEEE Sensors Journal  vol. 14, (8) 2490-2501. 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2325794
  • Zhang K, Qiu C and Dai JS (2014). Helical kirigami-inspired centimeter-scale worm robot with shape-memory-alloy actuators. Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference  vol. 5B, 10.1115/DETC201434676
  • Faragasso A, Stilli A, Bimbo J, Noh Y, Liu H, Nanayakkara T, Dasgupta P, Wurdemann HA and Althoefer K (2014). Endoscopic add-on stiffness probe for real-time soft surface characterisation in MIS. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engin  vol. 2014, 6517-6520. 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6945121
  • Song X, Liu H, Althoefer K, Nanayakkara T and Seneviratne LD (2014). Efficient break-away friction ratio and slip prediction based on haptic surface exploration. IEEE Transactions on Robotics  vol. 30, (1) 203-219. 10.1109/TRO.2013.2279630
  • Lam HK, Li H, Deters C, Secco EL, Wurdemann HA and Althoefer K (2014). Control design for interval type-2 fuzzy systems under imperfect premise matching. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics  vol. 61, (2) 956-968. 10.1109/TIE.2013.2253064
  • Qiu C, Zhang K and Dai JS (2014). Constraint-based design and analysis of a compliant parallel mechanism using sma-spring actuators. Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference  vol. 5A, 10.1115/DETC2014-34605
  • Konstantinova J, Li M, Mehra G, Dasgupta P, Althoefer K and Nanayakkara T (2014). Behavioral characteristics of manual palpation to localize hard nodules in soft tissues. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering  vol. 61, (6) 1651-1659. 10.1109/TBME.2013.2296877
  • Jamone L, Brandao M, Natale L, Hashimoto K, Sandini G and Takanishi A (2014). Autonomous online generation of a motor representation of the workspace for intelligent whole-body reaching. Robotics and Autonomous Systems  vol. 62, (4) 556-567. 10.1016/j.robot.2013.12.011
  • Xie H, Liu H, Seneviratne LD and Althoefer K (2014). An optical tactile array probe head for tissue palpation during minimally invasive surgery. IEEE Sensors Journal  vol. 14, (9) 3283-3291. 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2328182
  • Ravizza S, Chen J, Atkin JAD, Stewart P and Burke EK (2014). Aircraft taxi time prediction: Comparisons and insights. Applied Soft Computing  vol. 14, 397-406. 10.1016/j.asoc.2013.10.004