Prof. Pradeep Abeygunawardhana

Prof. Pradeep Abeygunawardhana

Dean | Information Technology | Faculty of Computing.

 

Career Summary

  • Dr. Pradeep Abeygunawardhana is currently working as a Senior lecturer (Higher grade). He obtained his Phd in March 2010 from robotic Engineering from Keio University, Japan. He obtained his Master in September 2006 from the same university. He is a graduate of University of Moratuwa from Electrical Engineering.
  • During his PhD studies, he work as a researcher under Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) at Keio University and the 21st Century Center of Excellence program. During 2012- 2016, he worked as a Post-Doctoral researcher at Kagawa University under the theme of life science product development for Kagawa Prefecture. He has the two year experience as an Electrical Engineer at Associated Motorways Ltd and Jinasena Motors Ltd.
  • He held the position of SLIIT research center in 2011 and currently holding the position of Head/ Computer Systems Engineering at Faculty of Computing SLIIT. He has more than 10 journal publications and more than 50 conference publications.


   

Academic Qualifications​

Academic Qualifications
  • PhD (Keio), Japan,
  • Msc (Keio), Japan
  • Bsc (University of Moratuwa), Sri Lanka
Honors and Awards
  • Recieved Japanese Governmnet scholarship (Monbukagakusho) for year 2004-2009.
  • Keio Leading Lab Research Grant for year 2007, 2008, 2009
  • Bronze award of NBQSA, Sri Lanka in 2017

Research Interests & Memberships

Interests
  • Cloud robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Network robotics
Memberships
  • Member of IEEE
  • Member of CSSL
  • Member IET
  • Associate Member, IESL

Ongoing Research

  • Robert as an intelligent AgentThe robot as a service is widely used one whereas a robot as a learner is an emerging concept. Though there are many learning robots have been presented throughout our research history. However, as a concept, it has not been formalized. Out robotic framework will equip intelligent algorithms using machine learning which provides robots to learn and adapt to situations. Expanding the horizon of cloud robotics, we are going to develop intelligent capabilities to our system using machine learning. By merging, Robot as a service, Robot as a learner, and intelligence of robot, this paper develop a new concept of Robot as an Intelligent Agent.
  • HexaGrow- Smart agricultural robotic systems for greenhouses.

Publications

My Publications

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  • Pradeep Abeygunawardhana, Toshiyuki Murakami ” “Vibration suppression of two-wheel mobile manipulator using resonance-ratio-control-based null-space control” ” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol.57, Issue 12, 2010, pp.4137-4146, IEEE, 10.1109/TIE.2010.2044115
  • Pradeep Abeygunawardhana, Toshiyuki Murakami ” Stability Improvement of Two Wheeled Driven Mobile Manipulator using Nonlinear PD Controller ” Transaction on industrial application of IEEJ, vol.Vol. 128, Issue No.10 / Sec. D, 2008, pp.pp.1149-1156
  • P.K.W. Abeygunawardhana, Toshiyuki Murakami ” “�Control of Two Wheel Mobile Manipulator on a Rough Terrain using Reaction Torque Observer Feedback” ” Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics & Intelligent System, vol.4, Issue 1, 2010, pp.pp. 56-67
  • P.K.W. Abeygunawardhana, Toshiyuki Murakami ” “Vibration suppression of two-wheel mobile manipulator using resonance-ratio-control-based null-space control” ” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics , vol.57, Issue 12, 2009, pp.4137-4146
  • P.K.W Abeygunawardhana, Dilruwan Madubashita ” “Neural Network Based Routing Algorithm for Cognitive Packet Network Architecture” ” International journal of current Engineering and Technology, vol.4, Issue 1, 2014, pp.pp. 139-145
  • P.K.W Abeygunawardhana, Akira Nishiyama and Ichirou Ishimaru, Masaru Fujiwara, Satoru Suzuki ” “Signal Improvement in Imaging Type Two- Dimensional Fourier Spectroscopy for Wild-Field Internal Non-Destructive Inspection” ” International journal of pharma medicine and biological science, vol.4, Issue 1, 2015, pp.pp. 70-74
  • Yo Suzuki, Wei Qi, Shun Sato, Masaru Fujiwara, Hiroyuki Hiramatsu, Natsumi Kawashima, Satoru Suzuki, Pradeep Abeygunawardhana, Kenji Wada, Akira Nishiyama, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Ichiro Ishimaru ” Palm-Size Ultra-Compact Wild-Field Fourier Spectroscopic Imaging Technology�, ” Journal of The review of Laser Engineering, vol.43, Issue 4, 2015, pp.pp 222-226
  • Satoru Suzuki, Satsuki Hosono, Pradeep KW Abeygunawardhana, Ichiro Ishimaru, Kenji Wada, Akira Nishiyama ” Correction of Spectral Interference of Ethanol and Glucose for Rice Wine Evaluation ” International Journal of Chemical Engineering and Applications, vol.06, Issue 04, 2015, pp.pp.267-272
  • Wei Qi, Yo Suzuki, Shun Sato, Masaru Fujiwara, Natsumi Kawashima, Satoru Suzuki, Pradeep Abeygunawardhana, Kenji Wada, Akira Nishiyama, Ichiro Ishimaru, ” “Enhanced interference-pattern visibility using multislit optical superposition method for imaging-type two-dimensional Fourier spectroscopy” ” Journal of applied optics, , vol.64, Issue 20, 2015, pp.pp. 6254-6259
  • N. Kuruwittarachchi, P.K.W. Abeygunawardhana, L. Rupasinghe, S.W.I.Udara ” “A systematic Review of Security in Electronic Commerce- Threats and Frameworks” ” Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology (E), vol.19, Issue 1, 2019
  • Galhenage A. Sewvandi, Masaru Kakimoto, Changdong Chen, Dengwei Hu, Pradeep K. W. Abeygunawardhana, and Qi Feng, ” “Controlling Dye Coverage Instead of Addition of Organic Acid to Reduce Dye Aggregation in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” ” Solar Energy, vol.202, 2020, pp.pp. 507-513

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  • Pradeep Abeygunawardhana, Toshiyuki Murakami Environmental interaction of two wheeled mobile manipulator by using reaction torque observer in Advanced Motion Control, 2008. AMC’08. 10th IEEE International Workshop on, year 2008, Italy, pp.348-353, IEEE, Pradeep Abeygunawardhana, Toshiyuki Murakami
  • P.K.W. Abeygunawardhana, Toshiyuki Murakami Casterless Wheelchair Robot Using Inverted Pendulum Control� in IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems,, year 2006, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, pp.pp 288- 293, IEEE, 8-11, August, 2006
  • P.K.W. Abeygunawardhana, Toshiyuki Murakami Self sustaining wheelchair Robot on a curved trajectory in IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2006,, year 2006, Mumbai, India, pp.pp 1636-1641, IEEE, December 14-17, 2006
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