The 3-volume set, LNAI 16074-16076, constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2025, which took place in Okayama, Japan, during August 6-9, 2025.

The 165 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 329 submissions.

They were organized in topical sections as follows:

Part 1: Robotic Dexterous Manipulation and Intelligent Control; Intelligent Perception and Control Technologies for Marine Robotic Systems; Intelligent Technology in Neural Decoding, Modulation, and Interfacing; Wearable Robots for Assistance, Augmentation and Rehabilitation of Human Movements; Soft Robotics.

Part 2: Hand-Centric Human-Robot Collaboration Advances in Perception, Control, and Interaction; Intelligent Technology in Healthcare; Advanced Localization, Navigation and Control Technologies in Intelligent Robotic Systems; Wearable Robotics for Gait Analysis, Training, and Rehabilitation; Embodied Intelligence in Biomimetic Robotics, Humanoid Robotics.

Part 3: Magnetic Actuated Microrobots for Biomedical EngineeringDesign, Control, and Application; Innovative Design and Performance Evaluation of Robot Mechanisms; Sensation-Perception-Actuation-Rehabilitation Oriented Technologies for Wearable Exoskeletons; Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence: Vision, Language, Multimodal Learning, and Applications; Bio-mechatronic Integration and Rehabilitation Robots.

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.- Magnetic Actuated Microrobots for Biomedical EngineeringDesign, Control, and Application.

.- Dynamic Parameter Identification in Haptic Robotic Systems via Artificial Bee Colony.
.- Template-Free Magnetic Programming Strategy for 3D-Transformable Soft Robots.
.- Physics-Based Simulation of Magnetic Nanorobots Swarm.
.- Dynamic Path Planning and Automatic Navigation for Microswarms.
.- Reinforcement Learning-Based Magnetic Levitation Control of a Capsule Endoscope for Path Tracking Using a Single Permanent Magnet.
.- Simulator for Identifying Contact-Prone Robot Parts to Accelerate Contact Judgment between Needle Puncture Robot and Patient.

.- Innovative Design and Performance Evaluation of Robot Mechanisms.

.- Autonomous Bolt Assembly Composite Robotic System Guided by Binocular Vision.
.- Design and Simulation of a Bipedal Robot for Explosive Jumping Based on a Hybrid Linkage-Cam Mechanism.
.- Topological Analysis and Perception of Physical Vibration in Distributed Optical Fiber Vibration Sensing.
.- Design and Optimization of a Heavy-Duty Parallel Ship Motion Simulation Platform.
.- Design and Analysis of a new Multiparameter Reconfigurable Morphing Wing.
.- Experimental Study and Analysis of Wheel-Terrain Interaction for Crewed Lunar Vehicle Based on Single-Wheel Testbed.
.- Research on the Dynamics Modeling and Control Method of Vector Quadrotor UAV with Variable Posture.
.- A Probability Theory-Based Method for Calculating the Cyclical Degree of Freedom of Mechanisms.
.- Design and Analysis of Variable Geometry Truss Robot.
.- AMM: An Aerial Modular Manipulator Based on Standardized Modules.
.- Structural Design and Simulation of Space Sleeve-Type Extension Arm.
.- Balloon Robot: Movement Recognition and Design of Robot.
.- Time-Optimal Trajectory Planning for Hybrid Redundant Robotic Arm Based on Prescribed Waypoints.
.- Conceptual Design and Kinematic Analysis of a Biomimetic Robot Joint (BRJ) Based on a Higher Pair Mechanism.

.- Sensation-Perception-Actuation-Rehabilitation Oriented Technologies for Wearable Exoskeletons.

.- Muscle Synergy-Enabled Multimodal Swimming Motion Recognition.
.- Estimation of Human Lower Limb Kinematic Parameters based on A-mode ultrasound sensing.
.- Human Lower Limb Motor Ability Estimation Based on Human-Machine Coupling Interactive Contact Model.
.- Integrated Analysis of Cortico-Muscular Coupling and Muscle Synergy for Functional Assessment in Exoskeleton-Assisted Stroke Rehabilitation.
.- Multidimensional Kinematic Analysis of Walking and Turning in Older Adults Using IMUs.
.- Development of a Functional Electrical Stimulation Device Combined with Multi-modal Muscle Status Monitoring.
.- BioKFusion-Net: Simultaneous Estimation of Ground Reaction Forces/Moments and Joint Angles from IMU Data.
.- Effects of Rhythmic Auditory Cues on Brain Network Characterization During Human Gait Initiation.
.- Effects of Exoskeleton-Assisted Sit-to-Stand Training Based on Cortical-Muscular Coherence.

.- Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence: Vision, Language, Multimodal Learning, and Applications.

.- TGP: Two-modal occupancy prediction with 3D Gaussian and sparse points for 3D Environment Awareness.
.- YOLO-HG: A Hierarchical Global Perception Method for heavy-duty Truck Parking Space Detection.
.- An Accurate 3D Reconstruction Method for Large Workpieces Based on 3D Vision.
.- Insulator and Its Defect Detection Framework Based on Feature Enhancement CenterNet.
.- Adaptive 3D Scene Analysis throughMulti-Modal Feature Integration and Geometric Pattern Recognition.
.- Global to Local Mamba Low Light Image Restoration.
.- A Comparative Study of First and Second-Order Gradient Acceleration in ICP.
.- Visual-Tactile Fusion-driven Diffusion Policy for Robotic Excavation of Semi-Buried Object in Granular Media.
.- RCTAMP: Enhancing Rule-Constrained TAMP via Multi-Agent Closed-Loop Collaboration Integrating Consensus Planning.
.- Efficient Skeleton-based Action Segmentation via Multi-Granularity Perception.
.- Tri-axial Plantar Load Sensing for Identity Authentication with 1D-CNN Classifier.
.- Exploring the Mechanism Underlying Lower Limb Motor Dysfunction in Ischemic Stroke Based on Multimodal Signals.
.- FuPaD: Scalable Pose Estimation by Fusing Patch-wise VGGT with Dense Bundle Adjustment.
.- ScaffoldOcc: Sparse Points Anchored Scaffold 3D Gaussian for Hierarchical Semantic Occupancy Prediction.
.- Dynamic Memory Reconciliation for Online Action Detection.
.- Enhance Polyp Segmentation via Supervised Contrastive Learning.
.- Online Prediction of Surface Roughness in Robotic Grinding System for TC4 Workpieces Using PSO-XGBoost Algorithm.
.- Cross-Subject Respiratory State Recognition Based on Ultrasonic and IMU Signals.

.- Bio-mechatronic Integration and Rehabilitation Robots.

.- Hybrid Pole Placement and Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Control for Bio-Inspired Tendon-Driven Robotic Leg Stabilization.
.- Continuous Estimation Algorithm of Elbow Joint Angle Based on Mamba Model.
.- A bone grinding depth prediction method based on multimodal sensing information.
.- Research on Parameter Adaptive Electrical Stimulation System Based on WBAN.
.- MBGADNet: Multi-Branch Generative Adversarial Denoising Network with Semantic Preservation for EEG Artifact Removal.
.- Design Optimization of Frameless Drive Motor in Robot Integrated Modular Actuator Considering Duty Cycle Suitability.
.- Cluster-guided State Initialization Strategy for Flexible Humanoid Locomotion.
.- Design and modeling of A Modular Cable-Driven Lower-limb Exoskeleton with Compact Torque Sensors.