Ziyu Cao

PhD Student
Division of Automatic Control
Department of Electrical Engineering
Linköping University

Email: ziyu.cao[at]liu.se
Address: 581 83 Linköping, Sweden


I am a PhD student focusing on multimodal state estimation for mobile robotic systems. I am affiliated the Department of Electrical Engineering at Linköping University in Sweden, currently working with Kailai Li and Fredrik Gustafsson.

Review for journals: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
Selected projects

RESPLE2: Inertial-Informed Recursive Non-Uniform Spline Estimation for Multi-Sensor Odometry with Global Refinement
Ziyu Cao, William Talbot, Song Li, Pakpong Chirarattananon, Fredrik Gustafsson, Marco Hutter, Kailai Li
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2610.37602, 2026
arXiv / Code / Video / Website

RESPLE: Recursive Spline Estimation for LiDAR-Based Odometry
Ziyu Cao, William Talbot, Kailai Li
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025
arXiv / Code / Video / Website