Oral Presentations

Oral Presentation Guidelines for Authors

Each oral presentation will be allotted 5 minutes, followed by an additional 1 minute for Q&A and transition.

1. Equipment:

  • Bring your own laptop with HDMI output. If your laptop only has USB-C or some other type of output, please bring the necessary adapter.

2. Presentation Timing:

  • Each presentation is limited to 5 minutes, with an additional 1 minute for Q&A. Session chairs will strictly enforce this rule, so please rehearse your talk thoroughly.
  • Practice timing your presentation and know which points to omit if you risk going over 5 minutes. Avoid overloading slides with information, as attendees can engage with you during breaks to discuss your work in more detail.

3. Presentation Rules:

  • Only one presenter per paper is allowed.
  • After each presentation, there will be a 1-minute Q&A period before transitioning to the next speaker.

Note: Linked submissions will not be publicly accessible on OpenReview until the conference begins.

Oral Session 1: Health, Medical and Human-Centred Robotics

ECERF W2-090/110
Thursday, November 12, 2026
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
  1. Zero-Shot Autonomous Ultrasound Scanning Using Reinforcement Learning [Link]
    Megan Zhou; Yafei Ou; Mahdi Tavakoli; Jun Jin
  2. Prototyping Smart Shirts for Trunk Motion Monitoring and Postural Support [Link]
    Md Rashedul Islam; Elena Kosareva; Melwin Chacko Moncy; Hamdi Ben Khelifa; Amirmahdi Mohamadi; Beth Jantz; Ajwa Niaz; Mahdi Tavakoli; Dan Sameoto; Isabel Prochner; Leila K Kelleher; Anastasia Elias; Patricia I Dolez
  3. Evaluating Powered Mobility Use in Children Using the emPower Car [Link]
    Olaonipekun Oluyadi; Maria Insuasty; Lesley Pritchard; Martin Ferguson-Pell
  4. Data-Driven Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Muscle Load and Injury Prediction from Virtual Reality Gameplay in Para-Athletes [Link]
    Prateeksha Aggarwal; Avi Pancholi; Arkaprovo Ghosal; Subhayan Guha Thakurta
  5. Force Regulation During Automated Robotic Ultrasound Scanning of a Deformable Breast Phantom [Link]
    Yeganeh Aliyari; Thomas Lang; Mahdi Tavakoli
  6. A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Decomposing User Preference in Exoskeletons [Link]
    Niromand Jasimi Zindashti; Negar Riahi; Ali Golabchi; Mahdi Tavakoli; Hossein Rouhani
  7. A Live-Updating 3D Guidance System for Robot-Assisted Arthroscopic Elbow Debridement [Link]
    Mohammad Reza Pournader; Armin Badre; Mahdi Tavakoli
  8. Manufacturing Technique of Twisted Fibres for Artificial Muscles Applications [Link]
    Ahmed Moustafa Abd-El Nabi; Akila Bandara; Dan Sameoto
  9. Exploring Input-Capacity Effects Across Multi-Level Powered Wheelchair Control [Link]
    Uchechi Ukaegbu; Jesuloluwa Zaccheus; Sara Houshmand; John Andersen; Mahdi Tavakoli; Hossein Rouhani

Oral Session 2: Robot Autonomy, Learning and Industrial Applications

ECERF W2-090/110
Friday, November 13, 2026
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
  1. Wearable Haptics and Soft Actuation for Dexterous Human–Robot Manipulation [Link]
    Jung-Hwan Youn
  2. CRESSim-Neo: GPU-Accelerated Position-Based Dynamics Simulation for Surgical Robotics and Robot Learning [Link]
    Yafei Ou; Ahnaf Naheen; Tleukhan Mussin; Hans Jarales; Melwin Chacko Moncy; Mahdi Tavakoli
  3. A Multi-Task Manipulation Dataset for Imitation Learning in Construction Robotics [Link]
    Yuezhen Gao; Huyue Li; Hridey Jain; Ali Golabchi; Qipei Mei
  4. Latency Evaluation in Humanoid Teleoperation in Gas Transport Operations [Link]
    Juan Pablo Grisales Campeón; Franco Berni; Fabricio Della Vedova; Roberto Axt; Santiago Braña; Francisco Alberto; Eduardo Mascaro; Mariano Mena; Rodrigo Ramele
  5. Lightweight YOLOv8n Wildfire Smoke Detection on a Solar Powered Edge Device [Link]
    Amin Moradkhani; Quamrul Huda
  6. A Spatial Speech-Based System for Summoning of Robots [Link]
    Lukas Grasse; Chandra Suryadevara; Ramiz Hussain; Matthew Tata
  7. Simulation of Meshfree Soft-Tissue Thermal Ablation Using Extended Position-Based Dynamics [Link]
    Ahnaf Naheen; Yafei Ou; Mahdi Tavakoli
  8. Application of a Collapsible Boom in a Novel Robotic Arm [Link]
    Marcy Ryan; Marie Charbonneau; Joanna Wong
  9. Using Industrial Robots to Optimize Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing Processes [Link]
    Jasmine A. Mah