List of Publications

• Thesis and Dissertation

• Sumit Kumar Das, “Realistic interaction with social robots via facial expressions and neck-eye coordination,” M.S. thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2015

• Sumit Kumar Das, Adaptive physical human-robot interaction (PHRI) with a robotic nursing assistant.,Ph.D. thesis, University of Louisville, 2019

• Journal Papers

• M Cynthia Logsdon, Shamsudeen Abubakar, Sumit Kumar Das, Heather Mitchell, Bhumika Vivek Gowda, Emmaline Wuensch, and Dan O Popa, “Robots as patient sitters: Acceptability by nursing students,” CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 581–586, 2022

• Sven Cremer, Mohammad N Saadatzi, Indika B Wijayasinghe, Sumit K Das, Mohammad H Saadatzi, and Dan O Popa, “Skinsim: A design and simulation tool for robot skin with closed-loop phri controllers,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2020

• Mohammad Nasser Saadatzi, M Cynthia Logsdon, Shamsudeen Abubakar, Sumit Das, Penelope Jankoski, Heather Mitchell, Diane Chlebowy, and Dan O Popa, “Acceptability of using a robotic nursing assistant in health care environments: Experimental pilot study,” Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 22, no. 11, pp. e17509, 2020

• Indika B Wijayasinghe, Sumit K Das, Haylie L Miller, Nicolta L Bugnariu, and Dan O Popa, “Head-eye coordination of humanoid robot with potential controller,” Journal of intelligent and robotic systems, 2018

• Sven Cremer, Sumit Kumar Das, Indika B Wijayasinghe, Dan O Popa, and Frank L Lewis, “Model-free online neuroadaptive controller with intent estimation for physical human–robot interaction,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2019

• Oguz Yetkin, Joe Sanford, Fahad Mirza, Roopak Karulkar, Sumit K Das, and Dan O Popa, “Control of a powered prosthetic hand via a tracked glove,” Journal of Medical Devices, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 020920, 2015

• Conference Papers

• Sumit Kumar Das, Mohammad Helal Uddin, Dan O Popa, and Sabur Baidya, “Neuro-adaptive dynamic control with edge-computing for collaborative digital twin of an industrial robotic manipulator,” in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, 2023, pp. 12316–12323

• Moath Alqatamin, Nazita Taghavi, Sumit K Das, and Dan O Popa, “Observer-free output feedback tracking control for collaborative robotics,” in 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). IEEE, 2022, pp. 1017–1022

• Sumit K Das, Mohammad Helal Uddin, and Sabur Baidya, “Edge-assisted collaborative digital twin for safety-critical robotics in industrial iot,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.12854, 2022

• Sabur Baidya, Sumit K Das, Mohammad Helal Uddin, Chase Kosek, and Chris Summers, “Digital twin in safety-critical robotics applications: Opportunities and challenges,” in 2022 IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC). IEEE, 2022, pp. 101–107

• Nazita Taghavi, Jacob Berdichevsky, Namrata Balakrishnan, Karla C Welch, Sumit Kumar Das, and Dan O Popa, “Online dynamic time warping algorithm for human-robot imitation,” in 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, 2021, pp. 3843–3849

• Aneseh Alvanpour, Sumit Kumar Das, Christopher Kevin Robinson, Olfa Nasraoui, and Dan Popa, “Robot failure mode prediction with explainable machine learning,” in 2020 IEEE 16th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). IEEE, 2020, pp. 61–66

• Shamsudeen Abubakar, Sumit K Das, Chris Robinson, Mohammed N Saadatzi, M Cynthia Logsdon, Heather Mitchell, Diane Chlebowy, and Dan O Popa, “Arna, a service robot for nursing assistance: System overview and user acceptability,” in 2020 IEEE 16th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). IEEE, 2020, pp. 1408–1414

• Christopher Robinson, Shamsudeen Abubakar, Sumit K Das, and Dan O Popa, “Rosfuse: A highmodularity ros to firmware instrumentation bridge for robotic sensors,” in 2020 IEEE 16th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). IEEE, 2020, pp. 449–454

• Mohammad N Saadatzi, Shamsudeen Abubakar, Sumit Kumar Das, M Hossein Saadatzi, and Dan Popa, “Neuroadaptive controller for physical interaction with an omni-directional mobile nurse assistant robot,” in International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020, vol. 83990, p. V010T10A055

• Sumit K Das, Mohammad Nasser Saadatzi, Shamsudeen Abubakar, and Dan O Popa, “Joint torque estimation using base force-torque sensor to facilitate physical human-robot interaction (phri),” in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). IEEE, 2019

• Mohammad Nasser Saadatzi, Sumit K Das, Indika B Wijayasinghe, Dan O Popa, and Joshua R Baptist, “Precision grasp control with a pneumatic gripper and a novel fingertip force sensor,” in Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2018 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2018

• Sumit K Das, Indika B Wijayasinghe, Mohammad Nasser Saadatzi, and Dan O Popa, “Whole body human-robot collision detection using base-sensor neuroadaptive interaction,” in Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2018 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2018

• Indika B Wijayasinghe, Joseph D Sanford, Shamsudeen Abubakar, Mohammad Nasser Saadatzi, Sumit K Das, and Dan O Popa, “Optimal accelerometer placement on a robot arm for pose estimation,” in Smart Biomedical and Physiological Sensor Technology XIV. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2017, vol. 10216, p. 102160B

• Maryam Moosaei, Sumit K Das, Dan O Popa, and Laurel D Riek, “Using facially expressive robots to calibrate clinical pain perception,” in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM, 2017, pp. 32–41

• Sumit Kumar Das, Ankita Sahu, and Dan O Popa, “Mobile app for human-interaction with sitter robots,” in Smart Biomedical and Physiological Sensor Technology XIV. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2017, vol. 10216, p. 102160D

• Sumit Kumar Das, Joshua R Baptist, Ritvij Sahasrabuddhe, Woo H Lee, and Dan O Popa, “Package analysis of 3d-printed piezoresistive strain gauge sensors,” in Sensors for Next-Generation Robotics III. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2016, vol. 9859, p. 985905

• Sven Cremer, Isura Ranatunga, Sumit K Das, Indika B Wijayasinghe, and Dan O Popa, “Neuroadaptive calibration of tactile sensors for robot skin,” in Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2016 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2016, pp. 1079–1085

• Indika B Wijayasinghe, Haylie L Miller, Sumit K Das, Nicoleta L Bugnariu, and Dan O Popa, “Human-like object tracking and gaze estimation with pkd android,” in Sensors for Next-Generation Robotics III. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2016, vol. 9859, p. 985906

• Ahsan Habib, Sumit K Das, Ioana-Corina Bogdan, David Hanson, and Dan O Popa, “Learning humanlike facial expressions for android phillip k. dick,” in Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2014 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2014, pp. 1159–1165

• M Cynthia Logsdon, Dan Popa, Heather Mitchell, Diane Chlebowy, Indika Wijayasinghe, MN Saadatzi, and Sumitkumar Das, “Efficacy and acceptability of robots to improve physical tasks in hospital environments,”