- Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution
- Electronic Systems Engineering Technology
- Affiliated Faculty, Mechanical Engineering,
- Affiliated Faculty, Multidisciplinary Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-6027
- Email: igodage@tamu.edu
- Office: FERM 005
Educational Background
- Doctor of Philosophy in Robotics, Cognition, and Interaction Technologies, University of Genova, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy - 2013
- B.Sc. Eng. (Hons), First Class Honors, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka - 2007
Research Interests
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- Soft robots
- Continuum robots
- Modular robots
- MRI-Compatible Surgical robots
- Motion planning
- Kinematics, dynamics, and control of underactuated systems
- Blockchain-based trustless human-robot-robot collaboration
Selected Publications
- M. Azizkhani, A. Gunderman, I. S. Godage, Y. Chen, "Dynamic control of soft robotic arm: An experimental study," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(4), pp. 1897-1904, 2023
- Q. Xiao, M. Musa, I. S. Godage, H. Su, Y. Chen, “Kinematics and Stiffness Modeling of Soft Robot With a Concentric Backbone,” Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics 15(5), pp. 051011, 2022
- B. H. Meng, I. S. Godage, I. Kanj, "RRT*-Based Path Planning for Continuum Arms," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7(3), pp. 6830-6837, 2022
- M. Azizkhani, I. S. Godage, Y. Chen, "Dynamic control of soft robotic arm: A simulation study," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7(2), pp. 3584-3591, 2022
- I. S. Godage, R. J. Webster III, I.D. Walker, “Center of Gravity-based Approach for Modeling Dynamics of Multisection Continuum Arms,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 35(5), pp. 1097-1108, 2019