BioRob 24

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.

Further, a poster session, Demo and Tutorials (MyoSuite and Theia Makerless) will be part of the workshop.

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

New, recently published, as well as results currently under review can be submitted.  We especially welcome early as well as negative results, provided the submission shares something interesting that the community can benefit from.

• Format: Submissions to the workshop can be made in the form of a 1 page abstract or a poster (max dimension 24W x 36H inches) or as a Video of your demo, that you want to show. Submission must be in the form of a pdf. Supporting video (max 3 minutes) can also be provided with the submission in the form of a publically hosted link (YouTube, etc).

• Instructions: Send your submissions to Kim Peper (kim.peper@tum.de) with the following subject lines: [BioRob24:<your-submission-title> <your-name>]. Add the following details in the body.

  • Title: <poster/demo title>

  • Authors: <List of all authors in order and their affiliations>

  • Demo: <Mark if you like to bring a demo along with your poster>

  • Video: <link to the supporting video>

  • Status:  <Mark if this is a new result/ under submission/ negative result>

  • Mics: <anything else you would like us to know>

Attach your abstract/ poster/ video / video of the demo to the email. Submission must be made by the corresponding/presenting author.  Co-authors can be CCed to your email to receive all communications.

• Deadline: 31st July anywhere on earth

Notification: Submission decisions will be made available as soon as reviews are available. We expect to send all notifications by 15th July. All communications/ notifications will be sent as a response to the submission email. Please ensure that all emails (including CCed) remain active. 

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)