Dr Thomas George Thuruthel

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Biography

Thomas George Thuruthel received the B.Tech. degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, in 2013 and the master's degree in Biorobotics from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2015 and a Ph.D. degree in Biorobotics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy.

His research interests include modeling and control of soft bodied systems, dexterous manipulation, and artificial intelligence. He is currently a Research Associate in the Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory in Cambridge working on self-healing soft robots, design optimization of soft-bodied systems and Reinforcement Learning techniques for dexterous manipulation using tactile sensors. He prefers an enquiry-based learning approach where research problems and topics are boiled down to fundamental questions and then investigated.

Qualifications:

Ph.D with Honors, Biorobotics,, Scuola Superiore SantAnna, Pisa, Italy

Masters, Biorobotics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Thuruthel, T. G., Falotico, E., Renda, F., Flash, T., & Laschi, C. (2019). Emergence of behavior through morphology: a case study on an octopus inspired manipulator. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 14(3), 034001. , 2019
Thuruthel, T. G., Shih, B., Laschi, C., & Tolley, M. T. (2019). Soft robot perception using embedded soft sensors and recurrent neural networks. Science Robotics, 4(26), eaav1488. , 2019
Kalidindi, H. T., Thuruthel, T. G., Laschi, C., & Falotico, E. (2018). Modeling the encoding of saccade kinematic metrics in the purkinje cell layer of the cerebellar vermis. Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 12. , 2018
Thuruthel, T. G., Falotico, E., Renda, F., & Laschi, C. (2018). Model-based reinforcement learning for closed-loop dynamic control of soft robotic manipulators. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 35(1), 124-134. , 2018
Thuruthel, T. G., Ansari, Y., Falotico, E., & Laschi, C. (2018). Control strategies for soft robotic manipulators: A survey. Soft robotics, 5(2), 149-163. (Top 10 Most read article ever. Top cited recent article 2019) , 2018
Thuruthel, T. G., Falotico, E., Manti, M., & Laschi, C. (2018). Stable open loop control of soft robotic manipulators. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(2), 1292-1298. , 2018

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Kalidindi, H. T., Thuruthel, T. G., Laschi, C., & Falotico, E. (2019, April). Cerebellum-inspired approach for adaptive kinematic control of soft robots. In 2019 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) (pp. 684-689). IEEE. , 2019
Thuruthel, T. G., Taimoor Hassan, Egidio Falotico, Yasmin Ansari, Matteo Cianchetti, Cecilia Laschi. Closed Loop Control of a Braided-Structure Continuum Manipulator with Hybrid Actuation Based on Learning Models. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems. (Accepted) , 2019
Thuruthel, T. G., Abidi, S. H., Cianchetti, M., Laschi, C., & Falotico, E. (2019). A bistable soft gripper with mechanically embedded sensing and actuation for fast closed-loop grasping. arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.04896. , 2019
Thuruthel, T. G., Manti, M., Falotico, E., Cianchetti, M., & Laschi, C. (2018, August). Induced Vibrations of Soft Robotic Manipulators for Controller Design and Stiffness Estimation. In 2018 7th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (Biorob) (pp. 550-555). IEEE. , 2018

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