Contact Dr Nalinda Hettiarachchi
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 988414
- Email: N.Hettiarachchi@cranfield.ac.uk
Background
Dr Nalinda Hettiarachchi is a lecturer in Mechatronics and the Head of Defence Electronics Group at Centre for Defence engineering (CDE), Cranfield University which is based at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom in Shrivenham. He obtained his first-class honours degree, BEng (Hons), in Automotive Engineering from Kingston University, London in 2006. He completed his PhD degree in Intelligent Systems and Biomedical Robotics in 2015 at University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom
He has wide industrial experience in electronics, embedded systems, vehicle data bus systems, tracking systems and multi-sensor fusion applications.
He has developed numerous commercial electronic products and made contributions to several patented technologies.
Current activities
Dr Nalinda Hettiarachchi is extensively involved in teaching and research. His research activities focus on military vehicle HUMS, vehicle cyber security and fault diagnostic using acoustic features.
In addition to his research activities Nalinda is responsible for teaching/managing MSc modules, Vehicle Systems Integration, modelling and simulation, civilian/military vehicle data buses and UK MOD electronics courses.
Clients
UK MOD
Protean Electric Ltd
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Yang X, Chen Z, Hettiarachchi N, Yan J & Liu H. (2021). A Wearable Ultrasound System for Sensing Muscular Morphological Deformations. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 51(6)
- Fang Y, Hettiarachchi N, Zhou D & Liu H. (2015). Multi-Modal Sensing Techniques for Interfacing Hand Prostheses: A Review. IEEE Sensors Journal, 15(11)