Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Patient Safety, Learning Algorithms, and the Road to Autonomy
Discussion Leader: Michael Brockdorff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Animesh Garg (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Patient Safety, Learning Algorithms, and the Road to Autonomy"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Autonomy and Safety for Medical Robotics
Discussion Leader: Yash Chitalia (University of Louisville, United States)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Alexis Block (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany)
"Emotional Support Robots: Designing the Interactive Hug Experience"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
Margaret Eva Mungai (University of Michigan Ann Arbor, United States)
"Risk Tolerant Controls for Assistive Bipedal Robots"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
De'Aira Bryant (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
"Emotion Detection for Personalized Rehabilitation Robotics"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Design and Control of Medical Robotics
Discussion Leader: Abu Bakar Dawood (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Yash Chitalia (University of Louisville, United States)
"Mechanical Modelling of Tendon-driven Robotic Catheters"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am
Giovanni Pittiglio (Boston Children's Hospital - Harvard Medical School, United States)
"Magnetics in Robotic Catheterization: Design, Sensing and Control"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Ellen Roels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel , Belgium)
"Embedded Sensors for Self-Healing Soft Robots"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Obstacles to Progress in Healthcare Robotics
Discussion Leader: Krithika Swaminathan (Harvard University, United States)
1:30 pm - 1:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
1:35 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Obstacles to Progress in Healthcare Robotics
Alexis Block (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany)
Margaret Eva Mungai (University of Michigan Ann Arbor, United States)
De'Aira Bryant (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
Yash Chitalia (University of Louisville, United States)
Giovanni Pittiglio (Boston Children's Hospital - Harvard Medical School, United States)
Ellen Roels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel , Belgium)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
