Organizers: Robert J. Webster III and Caleb Rucker
Schedule
8:45 - Welcome & Introductions
9:00 - Hunter Gilbert: New Designs and Modeling for Slender Continuum Robots
9:30 - Xiaoguang Dong: Wireless Miniature Robots for Minimally Invasive Medical Operations
10:00 - Refreshment Break
10:30 - Tania Morimoto: Surgical Robot Design: From Patient- to Surgeon-Side Devices
11:00 - Farshid Alambeigi: - Model-based Design of a Generic Tendon Driven Continuum manipulator Experiencing Tension Loss
11:30 - Loris Fichera: Lasers + Surgical Robots: Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts?
12:00 - Lunch
1:00 - Isuru Godage: Recent advances in MRI guided steerable needles and human-robot collaboration frameworks
1:30 - Yue Chen: Tentacle-Like Continuum Robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery
2:00 - Tayfun Ertop: Continuum Robots for Lung Applications: Past Experiences and Future
2:30 - Bardia Konh: Self-sensing feedback control of an SMA-actuated active flexible needle for manipulation inside a phantom
3:00 - Refreshment Break
3:30 - Alan Kuntz: Deformable Robots and Deformable Tissues
4:00 - Jie Ying Wu: Augmenting surgical robots through sensors and self-supervised learning
4:30 - Melody Su: Perception Complementarity in Robot Assisted Surgeries
5:00 - Concluding Remarks
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