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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 affiliated with 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.

Before starting my PhD studies, I undertook Research Internships in Robot Learning at the Shanghai AI Laboratory and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Prior to that, I received an MSc in Robotics from the University of Bristol, and a BSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Liverpool and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.

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

🤖 Research Interests

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

🗂️ Selected 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. Ocean Engineering
    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.
    ArXiv Code Project Page Video

  3. 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 and Automation (ICRA), 2025.
    ArXiv Code Project Page Video

†: equal contribution. *: corresponding author.

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