Cardiff RAIM Research at IROS 2025

We are excited to share that the Robotics and Autonomous Intelligent Machines (RAIM) group in the School of Engineering at Cardiff University will be presenting a strong line-up of research at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025).

This year’s contributions reflect the breadth of the group’s work across learning-based manipulation, autonomous navigation, and differentiable physics-based modelling for granular materials.

IROS 2025 conference papers

Celebi’s Choice: Causality-Guided Skill Optimisation for Granular Manipulation Via Differentiable Simulation

By Minglun Wei, Xintong Yang, Junyu Yan, Yukun Lai, and Ze Ji, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh.

Acknowledgement: this work is funded by EPSRC.

Skeleton-Guided Rolling-Contact Kinematics for Arbitrary Point Clouds Via Locally Controllable Parameterized Curve Fitting

By Qingmeng Wen, Yukun Lai, Ze Ji, and Seyed Amir Tafrishi (corresponding author).

IEEE T-ASE papers

Deep Reinforcement Learning with Multiple Unrelated Rewards for AGV Mapless Navigation

By Boliang Cai, Changyun Wei, and Ze Ji.

A Survey of Object Goal Navigation

By Jingwen Sun, Jing Wu, Ze Ji, and Yukun Lai.

Workshop papers

The group will also present two workshop papers. Please check the IROS 2025 programme for full details.

Together, these contributions show the RAIM group’s continued commitment to advancing the frontiers of robotics and AI, spanning manipulation, autonomy, navigation, and physically grounded learning methods.

We look forward to connecting with colleagues, collaborators, and friends in the robotics community. If you are attending IROS, come and say hello to the Cardiff RAIM team.