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Biography
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He received the BSc. Engineering Hons. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in 1983, and the Ph.D. degree in robotics from Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K., in 1990. He is an Associate Professor of the school of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore . He is also the Program Director for Mobile Robotics of the Center for Intelligent Machines, NTU. He was previously the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa , Sri Lanka . His research interests are in autonomous land and underwater vehicles, with emphasis on SLAM, and problems related to control, navigation and perception. He has jointly developed autonomous land vehicles and underwater vehicles for education and research. He has published many articles in top ranking robotics journals and conferences, as well as various book chapters. He has been co-principle investigator and collaborator of various robotics projects. Presently he is the co-principle investigator of a collaborative research project, funded by ASTAR, providing autonomous cleaning agents within Singapore ’s largest theme park. He is a member of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Information Systems Engineer (C. Eng.) of the Engineering Council of the U.K. He is a founding committee member of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Chapter, Singapore , Committee Member of IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Chapter, Singapore and Technical Co-chair of OCEANS’06 Asia Pacific IEEE Conference, Singapore .
Research Interest
My research interests and efforts have been very broad, cross-cutting and synthesize original work in control and navigation of autonomous underwater and land vehicles, smart vehicles, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and mobile robots, behavior-based robotics, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM and CML), perception, sensing and sensor fusion, data association, and tracking, system integration for intelligent autonomous systems, object and component based software architectures for intelligent systems. Of late ne ura l interfaces devices based on bio-signals (EEG, EOG and EMG) to aid people with limited peripheral mobility.
Selected Research Projects
- Collaborative Autonomous Systems for Built Environments—CARSyB, A*STAR SERC GRANT, Total A*STAR funding: S$723,925, Starting date: 15 th Sept. 2004 , Completion date Sept. 2007, Co-Principle Investigator
- Autonomous Sensing Capabilities for Security Research – IDeAS Cluster Grant, Collaborator
- Feature Based Navigation and Localization of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, AcRF RG6/01, S$76,656, – on going, Collaborator.
Selected Publications
- W.S. Wijesoma , K.R.S. Kodagoda, and A. P. Balasuriya, “Road Boundary Detection and Tracking using Ladar”, IEEE Trans. Robotics and Automation, Vol. 20, No. 3, June2004.
- W. S. Wijesoma, K. R. S. Kodagoda, and A. P. Balasuriya, “Laser-Camera Composite Sensing for Road Detection and Tracking” , Int. J. of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 20, No.3, Jun. 2004, 456-464 .
- W. S. Wijesoma , L. D. L. Perera and M.D. Adams “Towards Multidimensional Assignment Data Association in Robot Localization and Mapping”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, April, 2006.
- W. S. Wijesoma , K. R. S. Kodagoda, and A. P. Balasuriya, “ CuTE: Curb Tracking and Estimation”, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2006.
- L D L Perera, W S Wijesoma , and M D Adams “The Estimation Theoretic Sensor Bias Correction Problem in Map Aided Localization", International Journal of Robotics Research, 2006.
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