| Oct 26, 2025 |
The Cardiff RAIM group’s research line-up for IROS 2025. Read it here.
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| Oct 02, 2025 |
Our latest work titled “DDBot: Differentiable Physics-based Digging Robot for Unknown Granular Materials” has been published in the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), by Dr Xintong Yang, Minglun Wei, Prof Yukun Lai, and Ze Ji. This work is funded by the EPSRC.
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| Oct 01, 2025 |
We are excited to share our latest work: “A Physics-Informed Demonstration-Guided Learning Framework for Granular Material Manipulation” published in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS). Congratulations to my PhD student Minglun Wei, and Dr Xintong Yang, Prof Yukun Lai, Dr Seyed Amir Tafrishi. This work is funded by the EPSRC.
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| Feb 01, 2025 |
Our latest research was accepted for publication in the prestigious journal, The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)! Title: “Differentiable Physics-based System Identification for Robotic Manipulation of Elastoplastic Materials” By Xintong Yang, Ze Ji, and Yukun Lai. This work is funded by the EPSRC.
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| Jan 24, 2024 |
I am pleased to announce that I will be the Academic Champion for Dr Raphael Grech from Spirent Communications, who will join Cardiff University as the Visiting Professor sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering for 3 years. This post started back in Oct 2023 actually.
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| Oct 01, 2022 |
I am very glad to announce the launch my project funded by EPSRC on robot learning for manipulation.
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| Sep 02, 2022 |
I am excited to be awarded the pretigeous title of Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellow, hosted by Spirent Communications. Great thanks for the support from Spirent and RAEng. We will work on autonomous navigation with state-of-the-art learning-based solutions.
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| Oct 02, 2021 |
Really glad to join the editorial board as an Associate Editor of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems section of the “Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C (JMES)”.
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| Sep 25, 2021 |
Really glad to give an invited keynote talk at the IEEE ISRIMT (The 3rd international symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing Technology) 2021 conference organised by Hohai University, China.
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| Aug 20, 2021 |
I chaired one session of the IEEE ICCSE 2021 (online this year). I am a regional chair and session chair of the conference.
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| Aug 02, 2021 |
Really glad to start research collaboration with Spirent Communications to focus on robust GNSS-based localisation for fail-safe autonomous navigation.
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| Jun 30, 2021 |
Paper entitled “ShorelineNet: An Efficient Deep Learning Approach for Shoreline Semantic Segmentation for Unmanned Surface Vehicles”, co-authored with collaborators from UCL, accepted for publication at IROS 2021 (Authors: Linghong Yao, Dimitrios Kanoulas, Ze Ji, Yuanchang Liu)
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| Jun 30, 2021 |
Fulltime PhD sponsorship with Spirent Communications on an exciting project of GNSS-based navigation.
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| Jun 22, 2021 |
Grant awarded by the Innovate UK/KTP for the application entitled BIM and Digital Twins in support of Smart Bridge Structural Surveying (as Co-I). The project will start from Sep 2021 for 36 months. We will develop software for autonomous drone navigation/mapping, deep learning for processing images, and IoT systems.
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| Oct 15, 2020 |
Joined the International Programme Committee of the KES 2021 conference (25th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems) in Szczecin, Poland
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| Oct 08, 2020 |
I joined the IEEE Access Editorial Board as an Associate Editor.
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| Sep 17, 2020 |
Organised and chaired the Invited Special Session “AI, Robotics and HMS for Smart Manufacturing” at the KES 2020 conference
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| Jul 21, 2020 |
Interviewed by BBC Radio Wales - Science Cafe
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| Feb 28, 2020 |
Research Grant awarded by the Royal Society for the application entitled Active Robot Learning for Subtractive, Formative, and Additive Manipulations of Granular and Viscous Materials.
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| Aug 01, 2019 |
Dr Ze Ji, Dr Hanlin Niu, and student Pietro Liguori scooped the second prize in the International Marine Vehicle Design and Construction Invitational Contest 2019 and The 8th China Marine Vehicle Design and Construction Contest (Harbin, China, 2019)
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| Jan 24, 2018 |
Invited Speaker at CoInnovate to audience from industry, academia, and others, Cardiff (http://coinnovate.co.uk/speakers/)
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