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Oral Presentations

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

11:15 am - 12:00 pm

ECERF W2-090, W2-110

Session 1: Award Candidate Papers

1. Audio-based tactile human-robot interaction recognition


  Antonia Yepes; Marie Charbonneau



2. Enhancing Surgical Autonomy: Multi-Modal LLMs for Explainable Decision-Making in Robot-Assisted Blood Suction


Sadra Zargarzadeh; Maryam Mirzaei; Yafei Ou; Mahdi Tavakoli



3. Using Robotic Haptic Devices to Improve Haptic Acuity: A Virtual Training Approach


Yuzhang Li; Yen-Wu Lo; Xinming Li; Daniel Lai; Bin Zheng



4. Robot-assisted Rehabilitation Game Design for Post-Stroke Patients


Mahboobe Shakeri; Jay Carriere



5. One-to-More Motion: Localized Generative Masked Transformer for  Single-Reference Motion Synthesis


Yilin Wang; Chuan Guo; Yuxuan Mu; Li Cheng; Hai Jiang



6. Safe Reinforcement Learning via Reward Shaping: A Case Study on Grasping Task in the KUKA Robotic Environment


Ali Yavari; Amir Najafi; Qing Zhao; Jun Jin


Tuesday, November 12, 2024

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

ECERF W2-090, W2-110

Session 2: Automation, Manufacturing, Mobility, and Logistics

1. Scaled-down Simulation and Analysis of On-site Robotic Fabrication and Construction


Raymond Xu; Luka Morita; Parmida Khosravian; Anas Itani



2. Vision-Based Odometry for Enhanced Mobile Localization with RGB-D Sensors


Hadis Saadati Nezhad; Marcelo Contreras; André McDonald; Ehsan Hashemi



3. Using Discrete Event Simulation to Model Flexible Manufacturing System: A manufacturing case of study


Braian Rivera; Faiza Zehra; Sajid Ullah Butt; Nooshin Salari; Ahmed Qureshi



4. On demand wire arc additive manufacturing


Mia Abdulla; J. Eduardo Alvarez Rocha; Suraj Panicker; Patricio F. Mendez



5. Robotic Cell System For Cross Laminated Timber Panel Off-site Construction Operations – Lean Manufacturing Principles


Jessica Janeth Cisneros González; Rafiq Ahmad



6. Visual-based Remote Sensing for Mobile Robot State Estimation


Yunchen (Leo) Ge; Mohammad H. Mamduhi; Ehsan Hashemi


Wednesday, November 13, 2024

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

ECERF W2-090, W2-110

Session 3: Human-Centered Robotics and Robotics Foundations

1. Leveraging AI For Barrier Detection And Functional Accessibility Using Computer Vision And Neural Networks In Campus Buildings And Public Spaces: A University Of Alberta Pilot Study


Arne Andres; Martin Ferguson-Pell; Mustafa Gul; Maziar Jamshidi



2. Using Multi-Modal Emotion Recognition and Decision-Making Systems to Personalize Gaming Experience Based on Player Emotions


Arash Salemi; Amirhossein Afkhami Ardekani; Albert H. Vette; Milad Nazarahari



3. CubeViT: 3D Human Pose Estimation from 360 Videos in Cubic Space


Hamid Mohammadi; Li Cheng



4. Human-Robot Interaction Force Estimation Using Vision and Proprioceptive Sensors


Mohammad Farajtabar; Marie Charbonneau



5. Dynamic Parameter Identification of the WAM Robot


Amir Noohian; Martin Jagersand; Alan Lynch



6. Uncalibrated Hybrid Force-Impedance Control for Robotic Planar Surface Interaction


Faezeh Haghverd; Alan Lynch; Martin Jagersand



7. Investigating Mixture Policies in Entropy-Regularized Actor-Critic


Jiamin He; Samuel Neumann; Adam White; Martha White



8. A Visual Servoing Based Path Following Controller


Cole Dewis; Martin Jagersand


Wednesday, November 13, 2024

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

ECERF W2-090, W2-110

Session 4: Health and Medical Robotics

1. Enhancing Skill Training in Robotic Surgery through Controlled Mechanical Impedance


Yun Wu; Bin Zheng



2. Enhancing Myoelectric Control Robustness in Semi-Autonomous Prosthetic Hand Systems


Elaheh Mohammadreza; Vinicius Prado da Fonseca; Xianta Jiang



3. Enhancing Precision for Soft Surgical Robots using Bi-level Autoencoder-based Kinematic Control


Alireza Zahedi; Amir Sayadi; Renzo Cecere; Amir Hooshiar



4. Quantifying Relative Movement in Back Support Exoskeletons: Guidelines for Design Improvements and Musculoskeletal Modeling


Negar Riahi; Niromand Jasimi Zindashti; Ali Golabchi; Mahdi Tavakoli; Hossein Rouhani



5. CRESSim: A Contact-Rich Simulator for Realistic Surgical Simulation with the da Vinci Research Kit


Yafei Ou; Sadra Zargarzadeh; Paniz Sedighi; Mahdi Tavakoli



6. Florence-Lap: A Real-time Tissue Segmentation And Phrase Grounding For Laparoscopic Surgical Video Analysis


Michelle Levy; Marzie Lafouti; Liane S. Feldman; Amir Hooshiar



7. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Occupational Exoskeletons and Assistive Tools through In-Lab and In-Field Assessments Using Advanced Musculoskeletal Modeling Techniques 


Maryam Shakourisalim; Karla Beltran Martinez; Ali Golabchi; Mahdi Tavakoli; Hossein Rouhani



8. Observations On Patient And Clinician Experiences Using Telepresence Robots For Virtual Rehabilitation


Emily Armstrong; Martin Ferguson-Pell


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