U of T Robotics Institute at CRV 2025

From surgical robots to self-driving cars, researchers from the University of Toronto Robotics Institute will be sharing some of their latest breakthroughs at the Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV), taking place May 27-29, 2025 at the University of Calgary.

CRV is Canada’s leading venue for showcasing national innovation in robotics, computer vision and AI-driven systems. This year, Robotics Institute researchers will present six papers across four sessions, covering topics from localization and radar odometry to continuum robots for medical applications.

These projects reflect some of the work researchers are leading to enable technologies like autonomous urban and indoor navigation, robot-assisted surgery and smart sensing systems that are optimizing how robots interact with the world around them.

Robotics Institute Presentations at CRV 2025

TUESDAY, MAY 27

Oral Session 3 @ 2 p.m.

Pointing the Way: Refining Radar-Lidar Localization Using Learned ICP Weights
Daniil Lisus, Johann Laconte, Keenan Burnett, Ziyu Zhang, Timothy Barfoot

WEDNESDAY, MAY 28

Oral Session 4 @ 11 a.m.

The Finer Points: A Systematic Comparison of Point-Cloud Extractors for Radar Odometry
Elliot Preston-Krebs, Daniil Lisus, Timothy Barfoot

THURSDAY, MAY 29

Oral Session 6 @ 2 p.m.

Vision-based Autonomous Blood Suction with a Concentric Tube Continuum Robot
Jinjie Sun, Courtney Amm, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, Lueder Alexander Kahrs

MakeWay: Object-Aware Costmaps for Proactive Indoor Navigation Using LiDAR
Binbin Xu, Allen Tao, Hugues Thomas, Jian Zhang, Timothy Barfoot

Poster Session @ 3:30 p.m.

A Target-Based Extrinsic Calibration Framework for Non-Overlapping Camera-Lidar Systems Using a Motion Capture System
Nicholas Charron, Huaiyuan Weng, Steven L. Waslander, Sriram Narasimhan

aUToPath: Unified Planning and Control for Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Environments Using
Hybrid Lattice and Free-Space Search
Tanmay P. Patel*, Connor Wilson*, Ellina R. Zhang*, Morgan Tran, Chang Keun Paik, Steven L. Waslander, and Timothy Barfoot
*equal contribution