HEART

Day 1-3 (Wed, 13^rd -Fri, 15^th Aug 2025): Co-development and prototype development and initial testing

Day 4 (Mon, 18^th Aug 2025):

Research visit at Imperial College, White City Campus, London.

10:00 – 10:15	Arrival and Welcome at White City
10:15 – 11:00	Laboratory Tour
11:00 – 12:00	Demonstrations/Short talks
12:00 – 12:30	Meeting with Visitors/VIVO
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch and Informal Discussions

We express our gratitude for the warm welcome from Dr. Bruno Grandi Sgambato, postdoc under Prof. Dario Farina, who is working on neurorehabilitation engineering. It is one of the sub-research groups in the Neuromechanics and Rehabilitation Technology research group at the Imperial College.

Dr. Bruno himself focuses on Ultrasound method based on high density EMG sensor to anticipate muscle movement for augmented reality or to control an artificial hand.

Research visit at London South Bank University, London

14:30 – 17:30 (Optional)

Visit at Mechanical Intelligence Lab at London South Bank University, led by Dr. Hamed Rajabi

The research works here are mainly on insect-inspired structure, for example, wing structure for drone, mandible of dungbeetle for surgical cutting tool, and other principles behind the natural structures that could be useful in the future.

Day 5 (Tue, 19^th Aug 2025): Research visit at University of Bath, Dr Uriel Martinez Hernandez’s lab

Appreciation for Dr. Douglas Tilley, postdoc from Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, for professional research facility tour and meeting arrangement. We had visited:

• Gait lab
• Team Bath
• Aerospace lab for designing, manufacturing and mechanical testing
• Center for Orthopedic biomechanics

Day 6 (Wed, 20^th Aug 2025): VISTEC team at Bristol Robotics Laboratory

The team had learned and discussed on several topics, for example, soft exosuit and morphological computation.

Day 7 (Thu, 21^st Aug 2025): HEART Research talk event at Bristol Robotics Laboratory

Day 8 (Fri, 22^nd Aug 2025): Conclusion

The meeting for future collaboration was hold in Queen’s building, University of Bristol. The possibility includes experimental research, student exchange, and funding.

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List of professional specialist by topics:

Structure:

• Exoskeleton:
  • Assistive and rehabilitative exoskeletons:
    • Assoc. Prof. Xiaofeng Xiong, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, Denmark
    • Assoc. Prof. Carlos Cifuentes, University of the West of England, UK
    • Prof. Domenico Campolo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
    • Dr. Rejin John Varghese, Imperial College (White City Campus), UK
    • Dr. Jesus Ortiz, Head of XoLab, Istituto Italiano di Technologia, Italy
      
  • Hybrid motor-and-pneumatic-driven exoskeleton:
    • Dr. Maziar Ahmad Sharbafi, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
      
• Soft robotics, artificial muscles, cognitive ergonomics and neuroergonomics, and wearable technologies:
  • Prof. Jonathan Rossiter, University of Bristol, UK
  • Prof. Giacinto Barresi, University of the West of England, UK
  • Dr. Tommaso Proietti, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
  • Dr. Richard Suphapol Diteesawat, University of Bristol, UK
  • Dr. Emanuele Pulvirenti, University of Bristol, UK
  • Dr. Martin Garrad, University of Bristol, UK

Sensor:

• Smart Transducers:
  • Dr. Majid Taghavi, Imperial College (White City Campus), UK
    
• Neurorehabilitation Engineering:
  • Prof. Dario Farina, Imperial College (White City Campus), UK
  • Dr. Bruno Grandi Sgambato, Imperial College (White City Campus), UK
  • Assoc. Prof. Theerawit Wilaiprasitporn, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Thailand

Control:

• Morphological computation:
  • Prof. Helmut Hauser, University of Bristol, UK
    
• Machine learing model:
  • Dr. Telmo de Menezes e Silva Filho, University of Bristol, UK
  • Mr. Sergio D. S. Marin, University of the West of England, UK
    
• Embodied artificial intelligence and machine learning for adaptive exoskeleton control:
  • Prof. Poramate Manoonpong, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Thailand
  • Dr. Chaicharn Akkawutvanich, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Thailand

Biomechanics and clinic:

• Bio-inspired biomechanical structure:
  • Dr. Hamed Rajabi, London South Bank University, UK
    
• Biomechanical measurements, human model simulation & prediction, and motion analysis:
  • Assoc. Prof. Uriel Martinez Hernandez, University of Bath, UK
  • Dr. Arjan Buis, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
    
• Physiotherapists and clinical research:
  • Stroke rehabilitation:
    • Assoc. Prof. Praveen Kumar, University of the West of England, UK
      
  • Assistive Technology for Sports Science:
    • Assoc. Prof. Chaipat Lawsirirat, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
      
  • Orthopedics:
    • Dr. Danaithep Limskul, MD, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand