Academic Contributions

Publications, presentations, and conferences I've participated in.
Denotes contributions that recieved awards or recognition, see the accolades section here for further details.

Publications

Moniesha Thilakarathna, Xing Wang, Asitha Wijesinghe, David Hinwood and Damith Herath."Robotic Grasping for Automated Sorting of Complex, Highly Contaminated Industrial Food Waste: A Benchmark Study" 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, 2025.

Nipuni H. Wijesinghe, David Hinwood, Janie Busby Grant, Maleen Jayasuriya and Damith Herath.""All I Need is Attention!": A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Gaze Modulation in Social Robots" 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, 2025.

Morley, Dylan, David Hinwood, and Damith Herath. "Design of a Novel Multi-Gait Quadruped." 2022 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2022. Australasian Robotics and Automation Association, 2022. (Accessory Materials)

Hinwood, David, and Damith Herath. "Robot Hexapod Build Labs." Foundations of Robotics: A Multidisciplinary Approach with Python and ROS. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. 495-513.

Hinwood, David, Damith Herath, and Roland Goecke. "Towards the design of a human-inspired gripper for textile manipulation." 2020 IEEE 16th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). IEEE, 2020.

Hinwood, David, et al. "A proposed wizard of OZ architecture for a human-robot collaborative drawing task." International Conference on Social Robotics. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. (Accessory Materials)

Available Presentations

Robot Design Competition ICSR 2022

This presentation was our submission to the 2022 International Conference of Social Robotics Robot Design Competition. Our submission detailing the Articulated Head project took second place, as shown in the related post and accolades section.

Paper Presentation CASE 2020

This presentation summarises a paper I published at the 2020 Conference of Automation Science and Engineering, which detailed the inspiration, kinematics, and preliminary design of the robot manipulator I built for my PhD.

Spotlight Presentation ICRA 2020

This video shows a spotlight presentation at the International Conference of Robotics and Automation in 2020, in which I outlined the broad methodology of using human-centric definitions to establish novel gaps in the context of manipulators specialising in fabric manipulation.

Posters

ICSR 2018

A Proposed Wizard of Oz architecture for an Artistic Human Robot Collaboration
This poster summarises my first publication at the International Conference on Social Robotics 2018, in which my colleagues and I outlined our framework for a robotic system to collaboratively draw with the public at the Questacon National Science and Technology Centre museum in Canberra, Australia. See here for further information about this project.

ICRA 2018

Robotic Recycling of Clothing - A Human-Centred Approach

This poster presented the motivation for my PhD research at the International Conference of Robotics and Automation in 2018. It discussed the issues associated with textile waste and how robots could address them. It also outlined the gaps in robotics and the proposed vision to integrate such systems into existing human-centric infrastructures for textile recycling.