Mr. Samaranath Ranatunga   PhD Candidate

Qualifications:

• M.Sc. by Research in Electrical Engineering, (University of M’tuwa).
• B.Sc.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering, (University of P’deniya)

Professional Memberships:

• Member, Engineers Australia (MIEAust)
• Member, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (MIEEE)

Research Areas:

• Intelligent vehicle control,
• Adaptive fuzzy control,
• Multiple model control systems for complex nonlinear systems

Ph.D Research Area

• Adaptive Fuzzy Systems for Intelligent Vehicle Control

Associate Supervisor(s)

• Zhenwei Cao

Primary Supervisor(s)

• Romesh Nagarajah

Selected Publications:

1. Ravipriya Ranatunga, Z. Cao, R. Nagarajah, “A Novel Multiple Adaptive Fuzzy System for Robust Nonlinear Control”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Melbourne, pp.398–403, 2011.
2. Ravipriya Ranatunga, Z. Cao, R. Nagarajah, A. Rad, “On Adaptive Fuzzy Control for Combined Longitudinal and Lateral Vehicular Control”, Proceedings of the 12th IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, Banff, Canada, July, 2010.
3. Ravipriya Ranatunga, S. Kumarawadu, “Cooperatively Controlled Collision Evasive Emergency Maneuvers”, Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems, IASTED Publications, Canada, vol.36, no. 4, pp. 330–339, 2009
4. G. Jayendra, S. Kumarawadu, Ravipriya Ranatunga, and S. Ransara, “Interactive Intelligent Collision Avoidance Control: Theory and Experiments”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, Sri Lanka, pp. 485–490, 2007
5. Ravipriya Ranatunga, S. Kumarawadu, P. Lingras and T. –T. Lee, “A new paradigm for intelligent collision avoidance via interactive and interdependent generic maneuvers”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Taipei, pp. 4625–4630, 2006.