Vol. 3 No. 1 (2026): Proc AUTOMED | Proceedings on Automation in Medical Engineering

The field of automation in medical engineering is one of the fundamental and fascinating areas at the interface of automation technology and medicine. Due to the advancing digitalisation and the pervasion of machine learning in all areas of life, control and automation technology is becoming increasingly important in medicine. The main objective of AUTOMED (DOI: https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED) is to discuss current trends and provide a forum for new research results in this field. The interdisciplinary orientation of the event is intended to create new synergies between engineering and medical sciences.

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2026): Proc AUTOMED

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics

Health Monitoring and Analysis using in-cabin sensors in automobiles: A feasibility study

Tuhinangshu Gangopadhyay; Rasmus Adler, Peter Liggesmeyer

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2497

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2497
A novel validation method for high-precision IMU-based handwriting trace reconstruction

Chiara Gentile, Linda Greta Dui, Simone Toffoli, Stefania Fontolan, Cristiano Termine, Simona Ferrante

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2533

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2533
Gentle insertion, secure fixation: Evaluating the electrode holder of the Cochlea Hydrodrive

Jakob Cramer, Rolf Salcher, Max Fröhlich, Georg Böttcher-Rebmann, Thomas Lenarz, Thomas Rau

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2502

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2502
Short-Wave Infrared based, remote vital parameter detection using pulsed illumination

Olaf Simanski; Niklas Huhs

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2543

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2543
Towards data-driven predictive temperature control for retinal laser treatments

Andra-Karina Poetschki, Marietta Sophie Huch, Henrik Volkens, Hossam S. Abbas, Ralf Brinkmann

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2467

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2467
A Multimodal Platform for Adaptive Functional Electrical Stimulation Cycling

Matteo Antonino Caruso; Giovanni Corvini, Yoel Alonso Cadierno, Juan Camillo Moreno

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2507

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2507
Multi-scale particle image velocimetry for respiratory flows and comparison with numerical simulations

Seyedmohsen Baghaei Oskouei, Veronica Viola, Christian Jordan, Theresia Baumgartner, Alexander Aloy, Robert Kölbl, Michael Harasek, Margit Gföhler

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2475

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2475
Why we need to consider perspective in image-based surgical tool classification

Anais Antonieta Millán Cerezo, Jorge Adrián Badilla-Solórzano, Thomas Seel, Thomas Stephan Rau, Leon Budde

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2514

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2514
Mathematical modelling of intraoperative gas exchange in extracorporeal oxygenation

Dominik Thomas Schulte, Anna Scampicchio, Marianne Schmid Daners, Melanie N. Zeilinger

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2480

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2480
A Twin Robotic CT System Simulation using MuJoCo and gVXR for Medical Applications

Lukas Freiling; Moritz Schaar, Maik Stille, Dennis Kundrat

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2520

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2520
On the search of CNN parameters

Max Bindemann, Thomas Schanze

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2489

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2489
Evaluation of a two-compartment CO2 gas exchange model for neonates in preterm lamb data

Lorenz Michael; Valerie Pfannschmidt, Marian Walter, Steffen Leonhardt, Mark Schoberer, André Stollenwerk

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2525

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2525
A cubic model for vessel lumen reconstruction from segmental balloon strain data

Behrouz Agahi; Ashish Bhave, Knut Möller

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2495

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2495
A concept for acquiring clinical expert motion data for digital twins and humanoid robots

Thomas Wittenberg, Norman Pfeiffer, Matthias Kalenberg, Jonas Walter, Miriam Peters, Heiko Gassner

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2531

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2531
Measuring respiratory surface EMG with ECG electrode leads

Andra Oltmann, Jan Graßhoff, Nils Lange, Tobias Knopp, Philipp Rostalski

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2500

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2500
Object-oriented Modeling of Renal Autoregulation for a Cardiovascular System

Markus Lueken; Steffen Leonhardt, Marian Walter

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2536

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2536
In Silico Trial for Preclinical Evaluation of an Automated Weaning Protocol

Carlotta Hennigs, Franziska Bilda, Georg Männel, Philipp Rostalski

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2505

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2505
Perspectives on Biomedical Piezoelectric Nanogenerators: A Roadmap and Benchmark

Max Bartholdt, Larissa Seegemann, Sara Knigge, Javad Foroughi, Tobias Jeising, Arjang Ruhparwar

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2717

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2717
Hands-Free mechatronic Movements

Verena Schmidt; Rolf Schmidt, Stefan Doleschal, Marco Masannek

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2472

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2472
Local Explanations for Classification of Ventilation Data by Neural Networks

Tim Bogumil, Ulrike Engeln, Sibylle Schupp

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2511

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2511
Detecting excessive and insufficient breathing effort with respiratory surface EMG

Tjorben Lerg, Niklas M Carbon, Jan Graßhoff, Steffen Weber-Carstens, Philipp Rostalski

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2478

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2478
Fast and portable phantom-based calibration for freehand 3D ultrasound

Larissa Ahrend; Jonathan Götz, Sami Beirami, Nazila Esmaeili, Jannis Hagenah

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2517

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2517
Towards quantitative ergonomic assessment in robotic surgery using depth imaging

Georg Wolf, Zino Ruchay, Johannes Peter Ackermann, Julian Maria Pape, Anne Katrin Brust, Alexandra Eberenz, Philipp Rostalski, Nicolai Maass, Georg Männel, Ibrahim Alkatout, Dennis Kundrat

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2485

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2485
AI-enhanced EEG analysis for clinical decision support in neurology – a mini-review

Christina Salchow-Hömmen, Matthias Anwander

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2523

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2523
Inertial joint angle estimation – How accurate is accurate enough?

Timo Kuhlgatz, Thomas Seel, Leon Budde

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2493

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2493
Predicting atrial fibrillation recurrence after pulmonary vein isolation from ECG data

Lukas Boudnik, Jan Graßhoff, Sorin Stefan Popescu, Marcella Ghaus, Roland Tilz, Philipp Rostalski

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2528

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2528
Quadrature current disturbance compensation for improved exoskeleton torque control

Raphael Hoffmann; Jan Dominik Franz, Steffen Leonhardt, Marian Walter

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2498

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2498
Estimating the arterial CO2 partial pressure by sensor fusion of end-tidal and transcutaneous CO2 measurements

Valerie Pfannschmidt; Sara Hillmann, Mark Schoberer, André Stollenwerk

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2534

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2534
Digitization of a manually adjustable hexapod to enhance surgical safety and accuracy

Thomas Stephan Rau, Anais Millán Cerezo, Patrik Haas, Jakob Cramer, Rolf Salcher, Georg Böttcher-Rebmann

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2503

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2503
Neuromorphic respiration rate detection using convolutional neural networks

Olaf Simanski; Niklas Huhs

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2544

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2544
Training autoencoders on their own outputs causes collapse

Thomas Schanze

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2470

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2470
Implementation of Intraoperative Hyperspectral Imaging in Kidney Transplant Surgery

Jonas Meyer; Mathies Zehny, Haowen Jiang, Nazila Esmaeili, Claire Chalopin, Björn Wellge, Jannis Hagenah

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2508

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2508
Simulative analysis of interlocking polygonal concentric tube robots during rotation

Juliane Mayer, Jana Rittelmann, Peter P. Pott

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2476

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2476
Single-filament spatial calibration for robotic ultrasound

Jonas Osburg; Ralf Bruder, Floris Ernst, Almut Kalz

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2515

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2515
Modeling surgeon-specific instrument usage profiles to improve instrument anticipation

Lars Wagner, Lukas Bernhard, Alexander Geiger, Dennis Schneider, Alois Knoll, Dirk Wilhelm

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2482

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2482
Real-Time Haptic Testbed for Path-Following Control in Rehabilitation: System and Performance Characterization

Sri Sai Sathvik Kadimisetty, Sébastien Muheim, Lauren Chee, Nicolas Gerig, Georg Rauter

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2521

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2521
Compensatory Posture Modeling in Lower Limb Amputees

Thomas Krauskopf, Clemence Ott, Georg Herget, Johanna Kubosch, Christoph Maurer, Thomas Stieglitz, Cristian Pasluosta

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2491

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2491
Modeling dynamic blowers in Simscape® for mechanical ventilation

Felix Röhren, Alina Junior, Steffen Leonhardt, Marian Walter

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2526

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2526
RunDAE for Enhanced Denoising of PPG Signals

Fars Samann, Thomas Schanze

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2496

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2496
Phase-oriented feedback design for robotic scrub nurse handovers with contactless haptics

Ada Lotta Bachmann, Flakë Bajraktari, Peter Schmid, Peter P. Pott, Max B. Schäfer

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2532

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2532
Recent engineering developments in treating diaphragm dysfunction: An overview

Souri V S Sreeramagiri, Johannes Greven, Jan Wilhelm Spillner, Jens Spiesshoefer, Maike Stemmler, Heike Vallery

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2501

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2501
Safety Challenges and Gaps for Bionic Knee Prostheses: An Introductory Survey

Riccardo Rocco; Thomas Seel, Michael Friedrich Russold, Leon Budde

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2538

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2538
Data-driven patient-specific fluid resuscitation

Mohammad Alsalti; Matthias Müller

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2459

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2459
Fall Detection and Prevention in a Lower Limb Exoskeleton Using MuJoCo Simulation

Forouzan Salehi Fergeni, Tianyu Wang, Steffen Leonhardt, Marian Walter

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2506

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2506
Usability and acceptance of an upper-limb exosuit in the home environment

Adrian Esser; Celine Ly, Peter Wolf, Robert Riener

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2474

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2474
Virtual Technician: A multi-modal interface facilitating therapists’ adoption of rehab robots

Max-Ole Bastian von Waldow; Robert Riener, Michael Sommerhalder, Peter Wolf

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2512

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2512
Reducing power consumption of blowers in emergency ventilation by field weakening

Leona Schild, Christian Neuhaus, Julian Golembiewski, Timm Faulwasser

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2479

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2479
RISE: A project-based learning framework for student-driven exoskeleton development

Lukas Julius Schneidewind; Marc Kraft

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2518

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2518
Anatomical plane multi-view learning for detecting spinal deformities with surface topography

Thurid Jochim, Andreas Heinke, Arkadiusz Żurawski, Hagen Malberg

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2486

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2486
Estimating respiratory effort: a systematic model analysis

Charlotte Globig; Tjorben Lerg; Philipp Rostalski, Jan Graßhoff

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2524

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2524
Safety assurance of a head-foot steered wheelchair via structured STPA decomposition

Mohammed Tloul, Laure Buysse, Dries Vanoost, Davy Pissoort

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2494

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2494
Transparent Control and ROS2 Hardware-Software Integration of a Commercial Knee Orthosis

Fabian Just; Domenico Caliandro, Yuhong Zhou, Sanjeet Malawade, Emmanuel Dean-Leon

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2529

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2529
Correlation between torsobarography and surface topography for spinal analysis

Nico Stecher; Andreas Heinke, Arkadiusz Łukasz Żurawski, Hagen Malberg

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2499

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2499
In vitro VV-ECMO mock circuit to quantify oxygen transfer across ARDS and ECMO weaning stages

Andreas Döcke, Luisa Neubauer, Susanne Kromnik, Hagen Malberg

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2535

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2535
Clinically Relevant In Vitro Model for Chronic Electrical Stimulation and Long-Term Evaluation of Cochlear Implant Electrode Functionalization

Verena Scheper, Georg Böttcher-Rebmann, Thomas Lenarz, Thomas Rau, Jana Schwieger

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2504

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2504
Cross-Dataset Evaluation of Sit-to-Stand Movement Classifiers for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation

Lucia Palumbi, Timo Kuhlgatz, Matteo Caruso, Thomas Seel, Leon Budde

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2545

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2545
Comparative Analysis of Feature Selection Methods in the use-case of ARDS Classification in Clinical Time-Series Data

Simon Fonck, Sina Wedding, Sebastian Fritsch, André Stollenwerk

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2471

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2471
Kinematic Analysis of Manual, Collaborative and Robotic Surgical Retractor Holding

Mathies Zehny; Jonas Meyer, Nazila Esmaeili, Jannis Hagenah

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2509

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2509
Clinically Informed Adaptive Control for Rehabilitation Robots: A Framework for Improved Patient Interaction

Zahra Shahrbaf, Leon Budde , Thomas Seel, Andrea Turolla, Iris Jakob

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2477

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2477
Fizzy: The underactuated robotic ball for interactive and engaging rehabilitation

Nada Ali Ahmed, Bart Horstman, Eda Karaosmanoglu, Marco Rozendaal, Robin Taborsky, Maike Stemmler, Manon Kok, Heike Vallery

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2516

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2516
Contactless ultrasound imaging for pediatric forearm fracture detection

Rucha Golwalkar, Ludger Tüshaus, Floris Ernst

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2483

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2483
Automated keypoint definition for surgical instruments

Leon Wiese; Lennart Hinz, Philippe Korn, Michael Neuhaus

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2522

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2522
Simulation-aided workflow toward dynamic fluid phantoms for impedance plethysmography

Johannes Hoffmann, Larissa Fueller, Roman Kusche, Sebastian Zaunseder

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2492

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2492
From Manual to Fully Autonomous MRI
A Structured Framework for Automation Levels

Julian Wohlers; Gerrit Wigger, Miriam Keil, Dr., Markus Braun

DOI https://doi.org/10.18416/AUTOMED.2026.2527

18th Interdisciplinary AUTOMED Symposium in Collaboration with the TC Medical Robotics, 2527