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Ziniu Wu

Postgraduate Researcher
University of Bristol
z.wu (at) bris.ac.uk


👋 Hi there! My name is Ziniu WU. I am a Postgraduate Researcher in Robotics at the University of Bristol. I am a part of the Aerial Robotics Group, Bristol Flight Lab, and Bristol Robotics Laboratory. I am co-supervised by Dr. Bahadir Kocer and Prof. Arthur Richards. My research focuses on continual learning for dynamical systems to enhance their adaptation and robustness in unconstructed and dynamic environments.

Prior to my PhD, I completed Research Internships in Robot Learning at the Shanghai AI Laboratory and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. I hold an MSc in Robotics from the University of Bristol, and a BSc in Applied Mathematics jointly awarded by from the University of Liverpool and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.

💡 Please do not hesitate to reach out to me for a coffee chat!

📰 News

[2025-08] 🎉 FastUMI is accepted by CoRL 2025!
[2025-07] 🎯 Teaching Robotics with ROS 2 workshop is accepted by ROSCon UK 2025!
[2025-06] 🎉 One paper is accepted by IROS 2025!
[2025-05] 🎉 One paper is accepted by Ocean Engineering!
[2025-02] 🎉 LLM4SAC is accepted by Ocean Engineering!
[2025-01] 🎉 AlignBot is accepted by ICRA 2025!
[2024-09] 🎯 I started my PhD study at the University of Bristol.


🤖 Research Interests

Robotics, Machine Intelligence, Robot Learning, Continual Learning, Motion Planning

🗂️ Publications

  1. ArXiv
    Maintaining Plasticity in Reinforcement Learning: A Cost-Aware Framework for Aerial Robot Control in Non-stationary Environments
    Ali Tahir Karasahin, Ziniu Wu, and Basaran Bahadir Kocer*
    ArXiv, 2025.
    ArXiv Code Project Page Video

  2. CoRL
    FastUMI: A Scalable and Hardware-Independent Universal Manipulation Interface with Dataset
    Zhaxizhuoma†, Kehui Liu†, Chuyue Guan†, Zhongjie Jia†, Ziniu Wu†, et.al., Dong Wang, Zhigang Wang, Nieqing Cao, Yan Ding*, Bin Zhao, Xuelong Li
    Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025.
    Paper Project Page

  3. IROS
    Tendon-driven Grasper Design for Aerial Robot Perching on Tree Branches
    Haichuan Li, Ziang Zhao, Ziniu Wu, Parth Potdar, Long Tran, Ali Tahir Karasahin, Shane Windsor, Stephen Burrow, and Basaran Bahadir Kocer
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025.
    Paper Code Project Page Video

  4. OceanEng
    Supervised Visual Docking Network for Unmanned Surface Vehicles using Auto-labeling in Real-world Water Environments
    Yijie Chu, Ziniu Wu, Yong Yue, Eng Gee Lim, Paolo Paoletti, Xiaohui Zhu*
    Ocean Engineering, 2025.
    Paper Code Project Page Video

  5. OceanEng
    Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vehicle Docking using Large Language Model Guide Reinforcement Learning
    Chenhang Xu†, Yijie Chu†, Qizhong Gao, Ziniu Wu, Jia Wang, Yong Yue, Wojtczak Dominik, Xiaohui Zhu*
    Ocean Engineering, 2025.
    Paper Code

  6. ICRA
    AlignBot: Aligning VLM-powered Customized Task Planning with User Reminders Through Fine-Tuning for Household Robots
    Zhaxizhuoma†, Pengan Chen†, Ziniu Wu†, Jiawei Sun, Dong Wang, Peng Zhou, Nieqing Cao, Yan Ding*, Bin Zhao, Xuelong Li
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2025.
    Paper Code Project Page Video

  7. ICAC
    Immersive Embodied Telemanipulation System with a Velocity Controller
    Ziniu Wu, Yijie Chu, Xiaohui Zhu, Qilei Sun, Yong Yue*
    IEEE International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 2024.
    Paper Code Video

  8. RAM
    HuBotVerse: Toward Internet of Human and Intelligent Robotic Things With a Digital Twin-Based Mixed Reality Framework
    Dandan Zhang†, Ziniu Wu†, Jin Zheng†, Yifan Li, Zheng Dong, Jialin Lin
    IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (RAM), 2024.
    Paper Code Project Page Video

†: equal contribution. *: corresponding author.

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