ICRA2019_WORKSHOP: Open Challenges and State-of-the-Art in Control System Design and Technology Development for Surgical Robotic Systems Montreal, Canada, May 20-23, 2019 |
Conference website | https://goo.gl/rLMqNz |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icra2019-workshop |
Abstract registration deadline | April 29, 2019 |
Submission deadline | April 30, 2019 |
Submission Guidelines
We invite participants to submit short papers (2~4 pages) of relevant work via EasyChair. The accepted contributions will be posted on the workshop website but they will not appear in the official IEEE proceedings. Accepted contributions will have the opportunity to present their work in a poster session and a 3 min presentation at the workshop. Selected contributions (short paper submitted only to the workshop) will be invited for a special issue on Journal of Medical Robotics Research
List of Topics
- Image-guided control and visual servoing of surgical robots
- Dynamics models and dynamics-based controllers
- Stability, disturbance rejection, and robustness of control strategies in surgical robotics
- Cooperative or semi-autonomous control of surgical robots
- Motion planning for surgical tasks
- Force sensing and force control
- Model-less and data driven control
- Application of deep learning in control of surgical robots
- Integration of sensing techniques in control of surgical robots
- Novel control approaches for human and surgical robot interface
- Ethics of robot autonomy
Program Committee
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Mahdi Tavakoli, Professor, PhD, P.Eng.
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, AB, Canada.
Email: mahdi.tavakoli@ualberta.ca
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Christos Bergeles, Senior Lecturer, PhD.
Department of Imaging and Biomedical Engineering, King’s College London, London, UK.
Email: christos.bergeles@kcl.ac.uk
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Kwok Wai Samuel Au, Associate Professor, PhD.
Mechanical and Automation Engineering Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. Hong Kong SAR, China.
Email: samuelau@mae.cuhk.edu.hk
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Mohsen Khadem, Lecturer, PhD.
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School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Email: mohsen.khadem@ed.ac.uk
Invited Speakers
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Russell Taylor, Johns Hopkins University
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Pierre Dupont, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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Tim Salcudean, University of British Columbia
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Nabil Simaan, Vanderbilt University
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Ron Alterovitz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Rajni Patel, University of Western Ontario
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Mahdi Tavakoli, University of Alberta
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Christos Bergeles, King’s College London
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Kwok Wai Samuel Au, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Stefano Stramigioli, University of Twente
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Caleb Rucker, University of Tennessee
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David Camarillo, Stanford University
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Jason Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Mohsen Khadem, University of Edinburgh
Venue
The workshop will be held on May 23, 2019 in Montreal, Canada.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Mohsen Khadem (mohsen.khadem@ed.ac.uk)