This is a tentative programme and can be subject of change.
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Theme: Medical robotics | ||
09:00 | Welcome remarks & Conference structure Conference organizer: Prof. Georg Rauter |
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09:10 | Welcome remarks IFTOMM president: Prof. Andrés Kecskeméthy |
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09:15 | Welcome remarks Head Department of Health Canton Basel City: Dr. Lukas Engelberger |
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09:20 |
Opening of scientific program |
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09:25 | Topic: The spirit of MESROB Founder of MESROB: Prof. Doina Pisla |
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09:30 |
Topic: Surgical robotics |
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10:05 | Virtual coffee break / Virtual lab visits / E-Poster exhibition | |
10:20 |
Robot-assisted cochlea-implants Plenary talk: Prof. Stefan Weber |
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10:50 | Robot-assisted laserosteotomy Plenary talk: Cyrill Bätscher & Prof. Hans-Florian Zeilhofer |
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11:20 | Demo session: MIRACLE Project PhD students of the MIRACLE Project ![]() |
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12:20 | Lunch break / Virtual lab visits / E-Poster exhibition | |
13:30 |
Welcome remarks |
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13:35 |
Topic: Robots at the heart of clinical interventions Plenary talk: High-precision robots as medical & surgical assistants: Jean-Marc Collet, Dr. Izabela Noll |
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14:00 |
Topic: Surgical robotics |
Topic: Medical lasers and optics |
14:30 | Technical session 1: Minimally invasive surgery and biomedical devices
Design, Static and Performance Analysis of a Parallel Robot for Head Stabilisation in Vitreoretinal Surgery: Hans Natalius Design Evaluation of a Stabilized, Walking Endoscope Tip: Manuela Eugster Tendon force control evaluation for an endoscope with series elastic actuation: Lorin Fasel Lab Experiences on Impact Biomechanics of Human Head: Jose Luis Rueda Arreguín Universal Mechanical Interface for Surgical Telemanipulation using Conventional Instruments: Max B. Schäfer |
Technical session 2: Optical systems and novel methods in medicine
Simulation of Echellogram Using Zemax OpticStudio and Matlab for LIBS: Hamed Abbasi Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy combined with artificial neural network for pre- carbonization detection in laserosteotomy: Ferda Canbaz Impact of ear occlusion on in-ear sounds generated by intra-oral behaviors: Mohammad Khair Towards Robotic Surgery for CartilageReplacement: A Review on Cartilage Defects: Philipp Krenn Robot- and Laser-Assisted Bio-Sample Preparation: Development of an Integrated, Intuitive System: Cédric Duverney |
15:45 | Virtual coffee break / Virtual lab visits / E-Poster exhibition | |
16:00 | Technical session 3:
Human-robot interaction in surgery, nursing, and industrial applications Learned Task Space Control to Reduce the Effort in Controlling Redundant Surgical Robots: Murali Karnam Development and Evaluation of a Force-Sensitive Flexure-Based Microgripper Concept: Cédric Duverney Investigating the First Robotic Nurses: Humanoid Robot Nightingale and Partners for COVID-19 Preventive Design: Esyin Chew |
Technical session 4:
Surgical planning, navigation, registration, and sensor fusion Introducing a Modular Framework for Human Tracking with Inhomogeneous Sensor Systems: Nils Mandischer Augmented reality based surgical navigation of the periacetabular osteotomy of Ganz - A pilot cadaveric study: Florentin Liebmann Multimodal Risk-Map for Navigation Planning in Neurosurgical Interventions: Maximilian Gerst Volume Rendering-based Patient Registration for Extended Reality: Marek Żelechowski |
17:00 | End of technical program | |
17:00 | Meeting of the MESROB Scientific Committee (via private Zoom-link) |
Theme: Rehabilitation robotics / Assistive devices | ||
09:00 | Welcome remarks Conference co-organizer: Prof. Robert Riener |
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09:05 |
From Robot-Aided Rehablitiation to Wearable Exosuits: towards a symbiotic assistive technology |
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09:40 |
Lower limb rehabilitation robotics. Sitting position and exoskeleton devices |
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10:15 | Virtual coffee break / Virtual lab visits / E-Poster exhibition | |
10:30 |
CYBATHLON session 10:30 – 10:32 Welcome to the CYBATHLON session 10:32 – 10:47 Introduction talk: CYBATHLON and user-centred design Plenary talk: Dr. Lukas Jaeger 10:47 – 11:02 Survey on user-centred design at the CYBATHLON: First insights 11:02 – 11:07 Q&A session 11:07 – 11:31 Team insights, SoftHand Pro ![]() 11:31 – 11:54 Team insights, VariLeg enhanced 11:54 – 11:55 Closing remarks |
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11:55 |
Robot-assisted rehabilitation: approaches for minimally-supervised therapy of hand function Plenary talk: Dr. Olivier Lambercy |
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12:30 | Lunch break / Virtual lab visits / E-Poster exhibition | |
13:30 |
Welcome remarks Conference co-organizer: Prof. Giuseppe Carbone |
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13:35 | Developing IEC 62304 - Compliant Embedded Software for Medical Devices Plenary talk: Dr. Visa Suomi |
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14:00 |
IISART special session: Medical robot autonomy levels: what standards? 14:00 - 14:10 Introduction: Prof. Thierry Keller 14:10 - 14:40 Degree of Autonomy - Observations from the Standardization Engine Room: Jan Veneman 14:40 - 15:10 The Autonomy Levels for Healthcare Robots: Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Hadassah Drukarch 15:10 - 15:30 Moderated General Discussion about Medical Robot Autonomy Levels (e.g. in Rehabilitation Robotics) and Relation between Risk Management concepts and Degree of Autonomy: Prof. Thierry Keller |
Technical session 5: Exoskeletons and gait-related rehabilitation
Design and motion analysis of an exoskeleton robot for assisting human locomotion: Ionut Daniel Geonea A Cable-Robot System for Promoting Healthy Postural Stability and Lower-Limb Biomechanics in Gait Rehabilitation: Carl Nelson Observer based sliding mode control for a knee exoskeleton: Yujie Su A compliant parallel manipulator for rehabilitation of the trunk after stroke: Daniel Díaz-Caneja Development of a New Knee Endoprosthesis and Finite Element Analysis of Contact Stresses: Daniela Tarnita Design and motion simulation of a new exoskeleton leg mechanism: Ionut Daniel Geonea |
15:30 | Virtual coffee break / Virtual lab visits / E-Poster exhibition | |
15:45 | Technical session 6: Lower limb rehabilitation and innovative rehabilitation approaches
Ankle rehabilitation of stroke survivors using Kuka LBR iiwa: Prof. Doina Pisla Nonlinear dynamic analysis of human sit-to-stand movement with application to the robotic structures: Prof. Daniela Tarnita Development of an automatic perturbator for dynamic posturographic analysis: Carlo Ferraresi Designing a Robotized System for Rehabilitation Taking Into Account Anthropological Data of Patients: Artem Voloshin Serious Games Strategies with Cable-Driven Robots for Rehabilitation Tasks: Thiago Alves Daily Life Activities Analysis for Rehabilitation Purposes: Ferdaws Ennaiem |
Technical session 7: Upper limb rehabilitation
Design of a novel robot for upper limb rehabilitation: Prof. Giuseppe Carbone Novel design of the ParReEx-elbow parallel robot for the rehabilitation of brachial monoparesis: Bogdan Gherman Trunk Flexion-Extension in Healthy Subjects: Preliminary Analysis of Movement Profiles: Federica Ragni Design Optimization and Dynamic Control of a 3-d.o.f. Planar Cable-Driven Parallel Robot for Upper Limb Rehabilitation: Ferdaws Ennaiem First clinical evaluation of a spherical robotic system for shoulder rehabilitation: Prof. Doina Pisla Use of Pneumatic Artificial Muscles in a Passive Upper Body Exoskeleton: Carlo Ferraresi |
17:15 | End of technical program |
MESROB 2021 Optional Program (included in AUTOMED2021 Registration Fee) | ||
Please refer to MESROB tab and check the program between 09:00 - 12:30. | ||
12:30 | Lunch Break | |
13:00 |
Welcome remarks & Conference structure |
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13:10 |
Opening and welcome remarks |
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13:15 |
Technical Session 1: Rehabilitation, nursing, assistance, and human performance analysis Identifying disease specific gait kinematics using wearable sensors: knee versus hip osteoarthritis, Dr. Annegret Mündermann Machine learning based Freezing of Gait detection for an on-demand cueing system, Vivian Waldheim Workflow for 3D modeling of compliant actuators for active exoskeletons, Lukas Bergmann Towards robotic manipulator assisted positioning in care, Pascal Gliesche followIT - a wrist position annotation tool, Meret Björk Lindanis System identification and control of the ankle joint with functional electrical stimulation, Felix Roehren Combined estimation of gait phase and stair slope utilizing time history data, Florian Weigand |
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15:00 |
Guiding with Touch: Objective assessment and haptic cueing to improve surgical performance on virtual and robotic platforms Keynote: Prof. Marcia O’Malley |
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15:35 |
Virtual coffee Break |
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15:45 |
Technical session 2: Novel algorithms in medical data analysis Facial emotion recognition based on localized region segmentation, Herag Arabian On the expansion of training datasets to improve deep learning-based cell organelle recognition in fluorescence microscopy images of virus-infected cells, Nils Busch The effect of different priors on a discrete cosine transformation based EIT algorithm, Rongqing Chen On a simple and fast thresholding method for spike sorting, Markus Chi-Haw Chou Actin tail detection in fluorescence microscopic image sequences to investigate the cause of movement of subviral particles, Jan Chowanietz Adversarial samples of a trained convolutional neural network model, Ning Ding Flexible pattern generation for phrenic nerve stimulation, Arnhold Lohse |
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17:30 | Meeting “Fachausschuss” (via private Zoom-link) | |
18:30 | End of technical program |
Theme: Service robots / Haptics | ||
09:00 | Welcome remarks Conference co-organizer: Prof. Philippe Cattin |
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09:05 |
Award ceremony for "Life Time Achievement” of Prof. Manfred Husty Announced by: Prof. Doina Pisla |
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09:10 |
Kinematics of some Medical Robots Keynote: Prof. Manfred Husty |
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09:35 |
Award ceremony for "Life Time Achievement” of Prof. Hannes Bleuler Announced by: Dr. Mohamed Bouri |
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09:40 |
Haptics, Human factors, Ergonomy, Shisa Kanko Keynote: Prof. Hannes Bleuler |
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10:05 | Virtual coffee break / Virtual lab visits / E-Poster exhibition | |
10:20 |
A Thirty Year Perspective on Medical Robotics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Plenary talk: Prof. Russell Taylor |
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11:05 | Introduction to Poster Session: Prof. Georg Rauter | |
11:10 | Poster Session | |
11:35 |
Award ceremony for best papers (research, application, students, posters) Carlo Ferraresi, Prof. Domen Novak, Prof. Med Amine Laribi, Prof. Giuseppe Carbone, Prof. Georg Rauter |
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11:55 |
Closing remarks Conference organizer Prof. Georg Rauter |
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12:05 | End of Conference |
Theme: Service robots / Haptics | ||
08:30 | Welcome remarks Conference co-organizer: Prof. Philipp Rostalski |
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08:35 |
Tool or toy? Additive manufacturing at the point-of-care Keynote: Dr. Florian Thieringer |
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09:10 |
Technical session 3: Surgical procedures and medical devices High tibial osteotomy reduces compressive loads in the knee medial compartment and increases them in the lateral one during walking, Dr. Enrico De Pieri Speed-torque relationship for self-tapping bone screw insertion, Jack Wilkie Concept for the testing of automated functions in medical devices, Dr. Sandra Henn Test rig for bone screw insertion modelling, Jack Wilkie Robotic needle steering in deformable tissues with extreme learning machines, Pedro Henrique Suruagy Perrusi, Anna Cazzaniga Data quantity requirements for bone material property identification, Jack Wilkie |
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10:40 | Virtual coffee break | |
11:00 |
Technical session 4: Diagnosis, imaging, and surgical treatments Cross-dataset evaluation of a CNN-based approach for surgical tool detection, Tamer Abdulbaki Alshirbaji Microwave confocal image for the localization of lung cancer, Alberto Battistel Kalman filtered depth prediction using Optical Coherence Tomography for laser bone cutting, Yakub Bayhaqi Urethral Stricture model to estimate overdistention of healthy tissue, Ashish Bhave CoBra robot for localized cancer treatment and diagnosis under real-time MRI, Sepaldeep Singh Dhaliwal 3D Printed Catheters in Organ Perfusion with respect to hemolysis, Susanne Kromnik |
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12:30 | Lunch Break | |
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Technical session 5: Machine learning and models for medical applications Correlation between intra-abdominal pressure and lung mechanics during laparoscopic gynecology, Nour Aldeen Jalal Towards model-based temperature-control for retinal laser therapies, Viktoria Kleyman Combining future and past predictions of a linear Kalman filter for subviral particle tracking, Andreas Rausch On estimating the optimal autoencoder model for denoising ECG using Akaike Information Criterion, Fars Samann Using singular value decomposition to adapt Prony’s method for signal denoising, Thomas Schanze Classification of movement patterns of subviral particles using a support vector machine, Ricardo Mario Schuhmann Surgical task expertise detected by a self-organizing neural network map, Rongrong Liu |
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15:15 | Virtual coffee break | |
15:30 |
Technical session 6: Ventilation Separation of respiration and perfusion in electrical impedance tomography by harmonic analysis, Alberto Battistel The effect of body mass index on pressure controlled ventilator settings, Carlotta Hennigs Analysis of Respiration Induced Movements of the Upper Body in Different Breathing Patterns, Bernhard Laufer System identification of the FiO2 to SpO2 relationship during mechanical ventilation, Philip von Platen |
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16:30 | Virtual coffee break | |
16:45 |
Best paper awards and closing remarks Philipp Rostalski, Kathrin Lunze, Thomas Seel, Georg Rauter |
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17:00 | End of symposium |
Industrial track Workshop 1 (2 days): (Please click here for the details) Practical industry workshop for TwinCat3 (Beckhoff) and Matlab/Simulink (Mathworks) – Day 1 |
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09:00 |
Welcome & Introduction to workshop & Short introduction of all participants Instructor: Georg Rauter
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09:20 |
Introduction to real-time systems |
09:50 |
Software installation and programming platform Instructor: Georg Rauter |
09:50 |
Software installation and programming platform Instructor: Georg Rauter |
10:00 |
Reading schematics of control cabinets Instructor: Georg Rauter |
10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:45 |
First steps in Matlab/Simulink Instructor: Vasco Lenzi |
11:30 |
My first Matlab/Simulink program in TwinCat3 Instructor: Georg Rauter |
12:40 | Lunch Break |
14:00 |
Safety in TwinCAT 3 Instructor: Georg Rauter |
15:40 | Coffee break |
16:00 |
Implementing a servo motor in Matlab/Simulink for TwinCat3 Instructor: Georg Rauter |
17:30 |
Wrap-up, feedback, question round Instructor: Georg Rauter |
17:40 | End of workshop day 1 |
Scientific track Workshop 2 (1 day): (Please click here for the details) 3D-Motion- tracking systems with and without markers & IMUs |
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09:00 |
Enabling AI-driven Health Technologies by Kinematic Inference in IMU Networks Instructor: Prof. Thomas Seel Coordination: Beat Göpfert |
10:40 |
Coffee break |
10:50 |
Theoretical session: 3D-Motion Tracking with marker, markerless and IMU- Systems Dr. Mathias Bankay, Qualisys AB, Göteborg (Sweden), Dr. Nils Betzler, Qualisys AB, Göteborg (Sweden), Thomas Hock, Simi Reality Motion Systems, Munich (Germany) |
12:50 |
Q&A and closing remarks |
13:00 | End of workshop |
Industrial track Workshop 1 (2 days): (Please click here for the details) Practical industry workshop for TwinCat3 (Beckhoff AG) and Matlab/Simulink (Mathworks) – Day 2 |
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08:00 | Registration |
09:00 |
Matlab/Simulink state flow programming Instructor: Vasco Lenzi |
10:40 |
Coffee break |
11:00 |
Development of a state machine for a servo motor in Matlab/Simulink for TwinCat3 Instructor: Georg Rauter |
12:40 |
Lunch Break |
14:00 |
TwinCat3 VImplementation of basic controllers in Matlab/Simulink for control of a servo motor in TwinCAT3 Instructor: Georg Rauter |
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TwinCat3 Vision: Installation and first steps Instructor: Tobias Bachmann(Technical Support / Application, Beckhoff Switzerland AG, Schaffhausen, Switzerland) |
15:40 | Coffee Break |
16:00 |
TwinCat3 Vision: Integration and first applications. Showing visual servoing for high-level closed-loop control Instructor: Tobias Bachmann |
17:30 | Wrap up, feedback, question round Instructor: Vasco Lenzi, Tobias Bachmann, Georg Rauter |
17:40 | End of workshop day 2 |
Scientific track |
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09:00 |
Welcome & Introduction Presenter: Dr. Oliver Mauthner |
09:05 |
Geriatric care in times of the 4th industrial revolution: Are robots the future? Presenter: Dr. Thekla Brunkert |
09:45 |
Practical applications of robotics in nursing in Swiss health care and beyond Presenter: Prof. Sandra Engberg |
10:15 |
Coffee break |
10:30 |
Ethics of social assistive robots Presenter: Dr. Tijs Vanmeulebroucke |
11:00 |
Legal aspects of robotics in nursing Presenter: Prof. Elliott Ash |
11:20 |
Is there a business case for robotics in nursing? Presenter: Alexander Thys, MD, MBS |
11:40 |
Coffee break |
11:50 |
Case studies robots and group discussion Moderation: Prof. Sandra Engberg |
11:55 |
Social Assistive Robot Group discussion |
12:25 |
Gait Rehabilitation Robot: the FLOAT Presenter: Dr. Marc Bolliger |
12:55 |
Conclusions Presenter: Dr. Thekla Brunkert |
13:00 | End of workshop 3 |