Kalana Ratnayake

Kalana is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Canberra. He has a background in Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests include robotic navigation and manipulation, human-robot interaction and LLM-based robotic planning. His current research focuses on llm based generative behaviour planning for social robots. His areas of technical experience include ROS1 and ROS2 development (in C++ and Python), Navigation stack and Moveit stacks, robotic planning, and low-level robot control.

As a part of his research work, he develops and maintains the following repositories (some of which might stay hidden until the related publication is out)

As co-collaborator

• capabilities2
• prompt_tools

As the maintainer

• fabric
• fabric_capabilities
• prompt_capabilities
• turtlebot_capabilities
• nav2_capabilities
• moveit2_capabilities
• perception
• perception_capabilities
• supervisor
• experience
• rodeo
• anygrasp_ros
• grasping
• anygrasp_grasping

He also maintains the following stacks for robots used in the lab,

• grippers
• tmr_ros2
• tm2_ros2
• omron_amr
• omron_moma
• omron_handsolo
• turtlebot4-docker

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Ujk7jMsAAAAJ