Hangzhou / Zhejiang University / FSII
Ph.D. research in the Laboratory of Flexible Sensors and Intelligent Interaction Mechatronic Engineering.
Human-Robot Interaction Safety / Robot Teleoperation / Shared Control
Ruohan Wang
Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Zhejiang University.
Working on flexible sensing, robot teleoperation, shared control, and wearable exoskeletons.
Building safe, intuitive, and reliable robotic systems for human collaboration.
Published work on robot interaction safety and teleoperation in venues including IEEE RA-L.
Developed safety-aware shared control to reduce contact force and improve accuracy under dynamic interference.
Designed wearable force-feedback exoskeleton and proximity-sensing interfaces for immersive teleoperation.
Snapshot
Research highlights.
About
Safe interaction between humans and robots.
I focus on making robots safer and more intuitive collaborators, especially through teleoperation, shared control, wearable exoskeletons, and proximity sensing.
Hello, I'm Ruohan.
I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in FSII, the Laboratory of Flexible Sensors and Intelligent Interaction Mechatronic Engineering at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, under the supervision of Prof. Geng Yang.
My research interests center on Safety in Human-Robot Interaction, Robot Teleoperation, Shared Control, and Wearable Exoskeletons. I aim to build intuitive and safe robotic systems that collaborate with humans smoothly.
Proximity Sensing
Robot skin, capacitive sensing, hierarchical distance estimation, and collision avoidance.
Teleoperation
Shared control, force feedback, wearable interfaces, and immersive remote manipulation.
HRI Safety
Safety-aware control frameworks for human-centered healthcare and industrial robots.
News
Latest updates.
- 2025-09: My work-in-progress paper on avatar robots was accepted by the IROS 2025 Workshop-SSA.
- 2025-07: Our paper received the IEEE IES Students & Young Professionals Assistance Award at INDIN 2025.
- 2025-06: Paper accepted by IROS 2025 on robot shared control.
- 2024-09: I won the honor of Outstanding Graduate Student for the 2023-2024 semester.
- 2024-08: We won the Second Prize in Mingshi Cup, the 5th Wiener Sensing Technology and Intelligent Application Competition.
- 2024-06: Our paper received the IEEE IES Students & Young Professionals Assistance Award at ISIE 2024.
- 2024-06: We won the First Prize of Hangzhou and Xiamen Region in Huawei Light Chaser, the Embedded Software Design Competition.
- 2023-09: I won the honor of Outstanding Graduate Student for the 2022-2023 semester.
- 2023-08: We won the First Prize in Zhaoyi Innovation Cup, the 18th China Postgraduate Electronic Design Competition.
- 2023-06: We won the First Prize of Hangzhou and Xiamen Region in Huawei Light Chaser, the Embedded Software Design Competition.
- 2022-09: I won the honor of Outstanding Graduate Student for the 2021-2022 semester.
- 2022-09: I won the Jiancheng Scholarship of Zhejiang University.
- 2022-08: We won the First Prize in Shenhao Cup, the 4th Graduate Student Robotics Competition.
- 2022-08: We won the Second Prize in Mingshi Cup, the 3rd Wiener Sensing Technology and Intelligent Application Competition.
- 2022-02: We won the Silver Award in the 48th Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions Competition.
- 2021-12: I won the Huaneng Scholarship of Zhejiang University.
- 2021-12: We won the Gold Award in Huachen Cup, the 2nd National Machinery Industry Design Innovation Competition.
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Publications
Selected publications.
- Ruohan Wang, Honghao Lyu, Zhengjie Zhu, et al., Safety-Aware Shared Control for Teleoperated Robotic Precision Tasks under Dynamic Interference, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 9328-9335, 2025. Link
- Ruohan Wang, Ying Yang, Zhengjie Zhu, et al., A Proactive Safety Architecture Based on Proximity Sensing for Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction in Tele-Homecare, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, in press, 2025.
- Ruohan Wang, Chen Li, Honghao Lv, Gaoyang Pang, Haiteng Wu, and Geng Yang, "A Smooth Velocity Transition Framework Based on Hierarchical Proximity Sensing for Safe Human-Robot Interaction," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 4910-4917, 2024. Link
- Ruohan Wang, Honghao Lv, Zhangli Lu, Xiaoyan Huang, Haiteng Wu, Junjie Xiong, and Geng Yang, "A medical assistive robot for tele-healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic: development and usability study in an isolation ward," JMIR Human Factors, vol. 10, e42870, 2023. Link
- Yuyao Lu, Depeng Kong, Geng Yang, Ruohan Wang, Gaoyang Pang, Huayu Luo, Huayong Yang, and Kaichen Xu, "Machine Learning-Enabled Tactile Sensor Design for Dynamic Touch Decoding," Advanced Science, 2023. Link
- Huiying Zhou, Honghao Lv, Ruohan Wang, Haiteng Wu, and Geng Yang, "Revitalizing Human-Robot Interaction: Phygital Twin Driven Robot Avatar for China-Sweden Teleoperation," Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 36, 124, 2023. Link
- Huiying Zhou, Geng Yang, Baicun Wang, Lingyu Li, Ruohan Wang, Xiaoyan Huang, Haiteng Wu, and Xi Vincent Wang, "An attention-based deep learning approach for inertial motion recognition and estimation in human-robot collaboration," Journal of Manufacturing Systems, vol. 67, pp. 97-110, 2023. Link
- Geng Yang, Zhiqiu Ye, Haiteng Wu, Chen Li, Ruohan Wang, Depeng Kong, Zeyang Hou, Huafen Wang, Xiaoyan Huang, Zhibo Pang, Na Dong, and Gaoyang Pang, "A Digital Twin Based Large-Area Robot Skin System for Safer Human-Centered Healthcare Robots Toward Healthcare 4.0," IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 1104-1115, 2024. Link
- Kaichen Xu, Qi'ao Li, Yuyao Lu, Huayu Luo, Yihui Jian, Dingwei Li, Depeng Kong, Ruohan Wang, Jibing Tan, Zimo Cai, Geng Yang, Bowen Zhu, Qingqing Ye, Huayong Yang, and Tiefeng Li, "Laser Direct Writing of Flexible Thermal Flow Sensors," Nano Letters, pp. 10317-10325, 2023. Link
- Ruohan Wang, Guangwei Zhang, Zhengjie Zhu, et al., Advancing Robot Interaction Safety: A Teleoperated Shared-Control Approach Using a Lightweight Force-Feedback Exoskeleton, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025), in press, 2025.
- Ruohan Wang, et al., "Towards Immersive Teleoperation: Dynamic Identification for Force Feedback of a Wearable Exoskeleton," 7th IFToMM Asian Mechanisms and Machine Science Conference (Asian MMS 2024), Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2024. Silver Best Student Paper Award. Link
- Ruohan Wang, Xi Cui, Honghao Lv, Guangyao Zhang, Haiteng Wu, and Geng Yang, "Enable Intuitive and Immersive Teleoperation: Design, Modeling and Control of a Novel Wearable Exoskeleton," 16th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2023), Hangzhou, China, 2023. Link
- Guangwei Zhang, Ruohan Wang, Mengke Wang, Honghao Lyu, Dapeng Lan, Dashun Zhang, and Geng Yang, "Wearable Exoskeleton-Based Immersive Teleoperation for Industrial Manufacturing Systems: Hardware Design and Verification," 23rd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2025), Kunming, China, 2025. IEEE IES-SYPA Award.
- Lei Wang, Ruohan Wang, Honghao Lv, et al., Liberating Humanity from Heavy Labor: Dual-Arm Coordination and Teleoperation Control for an Assistive Robot, IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2024), Ulsan, Korea, 2024. IEEE IES-SYPA Award. Link
- Ying Yang, Chen Li, Ruohan Wang, et al., Design of Highly Integrated Microscale Fingertip Tactile Sensor for Robot Dexterous Hand, 17th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2024), Xi'an, China, 2024. Link
- Guangwei Zhang, Ruohan Wang, Honghao Lv, et al., Design and Control of a Wearable Upper-Limb Exoskeleton Featuring Force Feedback for Teleoperation, 17th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2024), Xi'an, China, 2024. Link
- Mengke Wang, Honghao Lv, Ruohan Wang, et al., Enhancing Robot Teleoperation in Remote Automation Production through an Event-Triggered Control Strategy, IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2024), Ulsan, Korea, 2024. Link
- Honghao Lv, Huiying Zhou, Ruohan Wang, Haiteng Wu, Zhibo Pang, and Geng Yang, "Towards Intercontinental Teleoperation: A Cloud-Based Framework for Ultra-Remote Human-Robot Dual-Arm Motion Mapping," 16th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2023), Hangzhou, China, 2023. Link
- Longqiang Wang, Ruohan Wang, Haiteng Wu, and Geng Yang, "Keeping Workers Safe in Electric Working: A Robot System for High-Voltage Live Operation," IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2023), Orlando, FL, USA, 2023. Link
Projects
Research projects.
Advancing Teleoperated Robot Interaction Safety
This project develops a teleoperated shared-control framework for homecare robots using a lightweight exoskeleton. Operator commands are combined with real-time proximity sensing to avoid collisions, while force feedback supports intuitive contact perception.
Exoskeleton for teleoperation
Robot shared control
Safety-aware interaction
Robot Needle Threading Under Dynamic Interference
This project develops a safety-aware shared control strategy for teleoperated robotic arms. It combines proximity sensing and force-feedback guidance, allowing the robot to anticipate potential collisions, switch to compliant behavior, and maintain precise operation.
Human-behavior-inspired shared control strategy
Needle threading under random interference
Proximity-Sensing Based Safe Human-Robot Interaction
This project develops capacitive robot skin integrated with a smooth velocity transition framework to improve human-robot safety in Industry 5.0. A hierarchical proximity sensing method grades distance and generates smooth collision-avoidance velocities.
Proximity-sensing based safe HRI
Overall framework
Capacitive sensor
CV
Education and CV.
A compact academic background with the full CV available as a PDF.
2021 / Now
Zhejiang University
- Ph.D. student in the School of Mechanical Engineering.
- Research in flexible sensors, intelligent interaction, teleoperation, and robot safety.
2017 / 2021
Beijing Jiaotong University
- B.Eng. in the School of Mechanical and Electronic Control Engineering.
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