doctoral summer school
COSER: Commonsense Reasoning in surgical robotics
2-5 May 2022 Hybrid format Verona&Online
presentation
In the field of autonomous systems, commonsense reasoning is the ability of replicating the human skill to make and verify hypotheses about the type and essence of situations that humans encounter every day. This skill includes the capacity to understand the physical behavior of objects, taxonomic properties, and other peoples’ intentions.
The goal of COSER doctorate school is to address the issues related to “commonsense reasoning” when developing autonomous surgical robots. Despite the presence of many different resources describing surgical procedures (e.g., written texts or videos), they do not illustrate a rather extensive set of concepts which are obvious for a human but need to be taught to a robot.
Understanding how to describe, represent and learn these innate skills represents an aspect of paramount importance to develop robust and reliable autonomous agents.
Experts from different disciplines (robotics, AI, medicine, ethics, laws and natural language processing) will be brough together to discuss the problem from different perspectives.
Unique topic
The one and first PhD school to offer a multidisciplinary approach to common sense reasoning in robotics.
Open to
PhD students and Researchers in relevant fields as robotics, AI, medicine, ethics, laws and natural language processing.
Hybrid Format
Lessons will take place both at Verona University CS Department and Online. Physical presence is strongly encouraged.
programme and speakers
Last editing: 2 May 2022
2-5 May 2022 at Room Verde, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona – ITALY
| Monday, May 2nd | Tuesday, May 3rd | Wed, May 4th | Thur, May 5th | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.00 - 9:45 | ROBOTIC SURGERY Talk Fiorini | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Talk Ponzetto | CS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Talk Vernon | Q&A Legal with Flor |
| 9.45 - 10.30 | ROBOTIC SURGERY Talk De Momi | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Talk Rospocher | CS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Talk Orlandini | GROUP WORKS |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | coffee break | coffee break | coffee break | coffee break |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Q&A ROBOTIC SURGERY with invited speakers ICE BREAKING SESSIONS | Q&A NLP with invited speakers GROUP WORKS | Q&A with invited speakers SURGERY Melfi (virtual but live) | GROUP WORKS Student activities finalization |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | lunch break | lunch break | lunch break | lunch break |
| 14.00 - 14.45 | SURGERY Antonelli (in person) | Q&A Robotic Surgery with Mathis Ullrich | ETHICS Talk Patuzzo | STUDENTS' FINAL ASSESSMENT |
| 14.45 - 15.30 | Q&A Surgery with Antonelli | GROUP WORKS | Q&A Ethics with Patuzzo | STUDENTS' FINAL ASSESSMENT |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | coffee break | coffee break | coffee break | coffee break |
| 16.00 - 17.30 | ROBOTIC SURGERY Talk Mathis Ullrich GROUP WORKS | GROUP WORKS | LEGAL Talk Flor (recorded) GROUP WORKS | STUDENTS' FINAL ASSESSMENT |
Confirmed speakers per area
ROBOTIC SURGERY
Paolo Fiorini
Altair Robotics Lab – University of Verona
Full profile
Talk title: Commonsense in robotic surgery, unexpected need
ROBOTIC SURGERY
Elena De Momi
NEAR Lab – Politecnico di Milano
Full profile
Talk title: Commonsense in surgical robotic design
ROBOTIC SURGERY
Franziska Mathis-Ullrich
Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics at KIT Karlsruhe
Full profile
Talk title: Context-sensitive robotics in minimally invasive surgery
SURGERY
Alessandro Antonelli
University of Verona
Full profile
Talk title: The advances of robotics in urology: commonsense or evidences?
SURGERY
Franca Melfi
University Hospital of Pisa
Full profile
Talk title: The impact of robotic surgery on healthcare and surgical training
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Marco Rospocher
University of Verona
Full profile
Talk title: Knowledge representation and reasoning with ontologies
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Simone Paolo Ponzetto
University of Mannheim
Full profile
Talk title: Natural language understanding and applications
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
David Vernon
Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen
Full profile
Talk title: Commonsense reasoning as an extended form of episodic future thinking: insights from the situation model framework
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Andrea Orlandini
National Research Council (CNR)
Full profile
Talk title: Knowledge-based Autonomous Systems in Safety-critical Scenarios
ETHICS AND LAWS
Sara Patuzzo
University of Verona
Full profile
Talk title: Robotic surgery and artificial intelligence: bioethical issues
ETHICS AND LAWS
Roberto Flor
University of Verona
Full profile
Talk title: Artificial intelligence, robotics, commonsense reasoning and legal responsibilities
Registration CLOSED
Registration
EXTENDED DEADLINE
By April 13th fill up the registration form to express your interest to attend. Participants can join from anywhere.
Selection
The number of participants is limited in accordance with the group activities. In person attendees will be advantaged.
Reservation
By April 15th. Accepted participants will be sent the link for the payment. The participation fee is 50 Euros* except for attendees from the University of Verona.
Contacts
Location
Room Verde
Department of Computer Science, University of Verona (Italy)
Strada le Grazie 15, 37134 Verona
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Organization and Partners
Diego Dall’Alba – diego.dallalba@univr.it
Eleonora Tagliabue – eleonora.tagliabue@univr.it
Marco Bombieri, Arianna Menciassi
