8:30 | Registration - Coffee and Poster Setup Time |
8:45 | Introduction (Welcome remarks by Giovanni Pittiglio) |
9:00 - 10:45 | Session 1 - The role of simulation in medical robotics (Chair: Animesh Garg) |
9:15 | Ron Alterovitz: Toward autonomous robotic navigation throughout the lung |
9:45 | Michael Yip: Visual-motor learning for surgical robot autonomy |
10:15 | Margaret Coad: Modeling and Control of Soft Inflatable Robots |
10:45 | Coffee Break and Poster Session |
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 2 - Design of Medical Robots (Chair: Yash Chitalia) |
11:15 | Jessica Burgner-Kahrs: Model-vs. Learning-based Approaches for Continuum Robots |
11:45 | Pierre E. Dupont: Mechanics versus Learning in the Design and Control of Continuum Robots |
12:15 | Sheila Russo: Smaller, smarter, softer medical robots |
12:45 | Lunch Break and Poster Session |
1:45 | Session 3 – Closing the loop for medical applications (Chair: Xiaoguang Dong) |
2:00 | Zonghe Chua: Visual force estimation in robotic telesurgery: Comparisons between data-driven and human sensorimotor approaches |
2:30 | Nabil Simaan: Miniature Continuum Robots for Intravascular Intervention: Modeling, Sensing, and Control Challenges |
3:00 | Elena De Momi: Hybrid approaches for context awareness in surgical robotics |
3:30 | Coffee Break and Award Session: Posters |
3:45 | Shan Lin: Employing Robust, Semantic Perception for Endoscopic Tissue Identification, Tracking, and Reconstruction |
4:00 | Alaa Eldin Abdelaal: Human Skill Augmentation in Robot-Assisted Surgery |
4:15 | Panel Discussion: Role of Model and Data |
5:00 | Closing Remarks and Award Session (Chair: Giovanni Pittiglio) |