Schedule

Time (EST)  
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)