Collaborative Workshop Between Zhengzhou University and the UK researchers (in conjunction with +3rd TTHER Mini-Workshop) on 12 May 2026

Research Sharing and Future Collaboration Discussion

We are delighted to welcome Professor Yanhong Liu, Professor Benyan Huo, and Professor Zhan Zhang from Zhengzhou University, Professor Bin Zhu from the University of Southampton, and Dr Xiaowei Tan from the University of Edinburgh to visit Edinburgh Napier University.

During the visit, colleagues shared and discussed a range of research topics, including robotics, artificial intelligence, wearable sensing, elderly care, rehabilitation, fall prevention, stress detection, tourism, and intelligent healthcare technologies.

Presented topics included:

Dr Erwei Li — On-Site Construction and Renovation Robotics for Sustainable and Less Disruptive Building Works

Dr Qian Wang — Research on Human Activity Recognition Survey Papers

Dr Ahsiah Binti Ismail — Explainable Artificial Intelligence Vision-Based Elderly Fall Detection to Support Safe and Independent Living

Dr Arunee Promsri — Optimal Sensor Placement for Fall-Risk Assessment: A Virtual IMU Framework

Dr Muna Azuddin — Designing Fall-Prevention Interactions for Elderly People with Dementia

Dr Nhut-Thanh Tran — Real-Time Personalized and Safety-Aware Soft Robotic Rehabilitation Using a Multimodal Feedback Closed-Loop Control System

Professor Yanhong Liu – Collaborative Frontiers in Robotics & Control
Academic Exchange Between Zhengzhou University and UK Partners

Professor Bin Chu – Recent Progress on Iterative Control

Dr Xiaowei Tan – on Rehabilitation Robotics

Dr Worawit Tepsan — NONAN GAITprint Public Dataset: Preliminary Exploration and Analysis

Dr Ahmad Hakimi — Trustworthy Stress Detection from Wearable Physiological Signals under Missing and Noisy Conditions

Dr Naret Suyaroj — AI-Enabled Age-Friendly Tourism

Zitong Chai — AI-Driven Wearable Sensor Data Intelligence for Dementia Healthcare

Zifeng He — Smart Insole Technology for Fall Prevention in the Elderly

Jin Lei — Control of Parallel Mechanisms

Nazia Pathan — Hybrid Pre-Fall Detection Algorithm Using PCA and Isolation Forest with Supervised Refinement

The session concluded with a productive discussion on future research collaboration, highlighting opportunities for interdisciplinary projects, knowledge exchange, and joint innovation in AI, robotics, healthcare, and age-friendly technologies.