Accepted Full-day Workshop at IROS
9am-6pm, Friday, November 8th, 2019
The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Macau, China.
This workshop is endorsed by IEEE RAS Technical Committee for Surgical Robotics
This workshop is sponsored by Intuitive Surgical Inc 
Background & Objective
Introducing robotic technology into surgery has advanced this field in many ways: less invasive procedures, less cognitive burden on surgeons, and better patient outcome. There are a great number of robotic systems, commercialized or being developed in research labs, that can provide interventions for a variety of surgical procedures. Yet, to this day, there are still very limited intelligent features on these robots compared to other robotic application domains, such as home, manufacturing, or warehouse.
At the core of robotic surgery lies the robot interactions with the anatomy, but challenges persist in fully monitoring, understanding, and regulating them. This workshop aims to bring world-class researchers to present the state-of-art research achievements and advances that contribute to better sensing the anatomy, to modeling the interaction more representatively, to regulating the interaction more intelligently, and to using methods that leverage recent advances in machine learning.
Organizers
Invited Speakers
Keynote Talks
Medical Robotics - Levels of Autonomy and Associated Challenges
Guang-Zhong Yang
Steerable Robotic Systems for Surgical Interventions
Jaydev P. Desai
Invited Talks
Exploring Autonomy in Robotic Colonoscopy
Pietro Valdastri
Pneumatically-driven Surgical Robot with Force Feedback
Kenji Kawashima
High Rigidity Bone Endoscopic Surgery Robot
Jaesung Hong
Image-based Sensing and Control for Robotic Surgery
Yun-hui Liu
dVRL: daVinci Reinforcement Learning Framework for learning Transferable Surgical Skills
Michael Yip
Human-centered Surgical Robotics with Compliance Modulations and Delicate Sensing
Hongliang Ren
Tissue Interaction within an Autonomous Surgical Robot
Paolo Fiorini
Towards a General Robotic Surgical Platform for Multi and Single Port Laparoscopy
Kai Xu
Key Technologies, Innovations and Collaborative Research & Development of Medical Robots
Lining Sun
From Tool to Assistant: Developing Adaptive Surgical Robots for the Operating Room
Ann Majewicz Fey
Toward Autonomous Steerable Medical Robots
Ron Alterovitz
Surgical Robots Interacting with Anatomy: A Thirty Year Perspective
Russ Taylor
Continuum Robots for Intelligent Interaction with the Anatomy
Nabil Simaan
Workshop Paper Submission
We welcome workshop paper submissions in the following two formats:
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- extended abstract (maximum 2 pages, IEEE double column)
- short paper (maximum 4 pages, IEEE double column)
Selected submissions will be invited to present at the workshop in the formats of 5-min spotlight presentation and of interactive poster. In addition, the selected submissions will be invited to a journal special issue being planned and organized.
Submission Information
Submission Deadline: October 20th, 2019
Submission Website: https://easychair.org/cfp/iros2019iria (submission link will be open in September, 2019)