BioRob 24

Human Digital Twins: Clinical and Human-robot Interaction – Transitioning from Simulation to Reality

Heidelberg, Germany - 1 to 4 of September 2024

Abstract

This full-day workshop will explore the current and future use of human digital twins for clinical application and human-robot interaction and how to unlock their potential. While experimental studies are crucial, progress is naturally slow due to medical device regulations and ethical considerations. This limits the development of new methods with clinical applications in rehabilitation as well as the design of novel assistive devices and controllers. New open-source and proprietary biomechanical simulation frameworks are actively developed with improved model complexity, movement versatility, and computational efficiency and an ever-increasing community spanning different research and application fields.

This workshop will give a voice to experts in assistive robotics, clinical rehabilitation, biomechanics, and industry. The workshop will be organized as a series of invited talks and panel discussions. It integrates perspectives from clinical application, robotics and musculoskeletal modeling, featuring speakers who bring diverse insights to the table. The workshop will aim to answer if human digital twin for human-machine simulation and clinical use is currently good enough to make an impact on reality

Invited Speakers

Greg Sawicki

Georgia Tech, USA

Robert Riener

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Firooz Salami

University of Heidelberg, Germany

Matthias Hösl

Schön Klinik Vogtareuth, Germany

Anne Koelewijn

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , Germany

Jose Gonzalez-Vargas

OttoBock, Germany

Daniel Heitzmann

University of Heidelberg, Germany

Schedule

Sunday 1st September

9h - Intro

9h05 - Talk 1

9h30 - Talk 2

9h55 - Talk 3

10h20 - Break and posters

11h00 - Talk 4

11h25 - Panel discussion 1

12h00 - Lunch Break with poster and Demo

14h00 - Intro

14h05 - Demo MyoSuite

14h30 - Talk 5

14h55 - Talk 6

15h20 - Break and posters

16h00 - Talk 7

16h25 - Talk 8

16h50 - Panel discussion 2

17h25 - Bretzel and Beer

Call for poster

We are looking for early career researcher (bachelor, master, PhD, postdoc) to present their research at the poster session. Please contact us with your poster idea .

Organization

Kim Kristin Peper (TU München, Germany)

Guillaume Durandau (McGill University and Jewish Rehabilitation hospital, Canada)

Daniel Haufle (Heidelberg University, Germany)

Vikash Kumar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Seungmoon Song (Northeastern University, USA)

Pierre Schumacher (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany)

Vittorio Caggiano (MyoLab Inc., USA)