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.

Oral Session 1: Medical Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction

ECERF W2-090/110
Thursday, November 13, 2025
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM

Session Chairs: Hossein Rouhani, University of Alberta; Marie Charbonneau, University of Calgary

  1. Learning Based Estimation of Tool-Tissue Interaction Forces for Stationary and Moving Environments [Link]
    Lukasz Nowakowski, Rajni Patel

  2. Accelerated Video-Based Surgical Skills Assessment through Saliency-Guided Surgical Highlights Reel [Link]
    Marzie Lafouti, Liane S. Feldman, Amir Hooshiar

  3. Adaptive Assistive Admittance Control for Robotic Upper Limb Rehabilitation [Link]
    Mohammad Farajtabar, Marie Charbonneau

  4. Shadow-Based Depth Perception with Adaptive Motion Scaling for Safe Teleoperated Retinal Surgery [Link]
    Ahnaf Naheen, Korab Hoxha, Angelo Henriques, Junjie Yang, Mahdi Tavakoli, M. Ali Nasseri

  5. InstructRobot: A Model-Free Framework for Mapping Natural Language Instructions into Robot Motion [Link]
    Iury Cleveston, Alana Santana Correia, Paula Dornhofer Paro Costa, Ricardo R. Gudwin, Alexandre da Silva Simões, Esther Luna Colombini

  6. Bridging Subjective and Physiological Measures of Cognitive Load of Operators in Tele-operation [Link]
    Yun Wu, Bin Zheng

  7. Registration of Deformed Tissue with a Geometry-Contrastive Transformer Approach [Link]
    Yeganeh Aliyari, Mahdi Tavakoli

Oral Session 2: Mobility/Field and Human-Centred Robotics

ECERF W2-090/110
Friday, November 14, 2025
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM

Session Chairs: Anastasia Elias, University of Alberta; Mojtaba Azadi, San Francisco State University

  1. Remote 6D Object Pose Estimation for Agile Grasping: Leveraging Cloud Computing Through Wireless Communication [Link]
    Oleksii Zamozhskyi, Alexander Werner, Marie Charbonneau, William Melek

  2. PCM-Driven Soft Facilitated Tucking Device for Preterm Infants [Link]
    Levi Sulzle, Mahdi Tavakoli, Emir Augusto Vela Saavedra

  3. Linearization-based Motion Control for Multi-Drone Slung Load Systems (MSLS) [Link]
    Yongqing Liu, Zichen Zhang, Mohssen Elshaar, Alan Lynch

  4. I&I Adaptive Force-Motion Control for Arm Manipulation [Link]
    Zichen Zhang, Zifei Jiang, Alan Lynch

  5. FRMD: Fast Robot Motion Diffusion with Consistency-Distilled Movement Primitives for Smooth Action Generation [Link]
    Xirui Shi, Jun Jin

  6. From Diffusion to Flow: Fast and Coherent Policy Distillation via Probability Flow ODEs [Link]
    Jing Wang, Xihua Wang, Li Cheng

  7. Scalable Multi-Robot 3D Mapping With Real-Time Collaborative Visualization [Link]
    Ilya Nalivaiko, Mark Fiala, Martin Jaegersand