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This paper presents a framework for dynamic object catching using a quadruped robot's front legs while it stands on its rear legs. The system integrates computer vision, trajectory prediction, and leg control to enable the quadruped to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 André Schakkal , Guillaume Bellegarda , Auke Ijspeert

When robots handle navigation tasks while avoiding collisions, they perform in crowded and complex environments not as good as in stable and homogeneous environments. This often results in a low success rate and poor efficiency. Therefore,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yanying Zhou , Shijie Li , Jochen Garcke

To dynamically traverse challenging terrain, legged robots need to continually perceive and reason about upcoming features, adjust the locations and timings of future footfalls and leverage momentum strategically. We present a pipeline that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Oliwier Melon , Romeo Orsolino , David Surovik , Mathieu Geisert , Ioannis Havoutis , Maurice Fallon

This paper presents a novel incremental learning algorithm for pedestrian motion prediction, with the ability to improve the learned model over time when data is incrementally available. In this setup, trajectories are modeled as simple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Golnaz Habibi , Nikita Japuria , Jonathan P. How

Interpreting motion captured in image sequences is crucial for a wide range of computer vision applications. Typical estimation approaches include optical flow (OF), which approximates the apparent motion instantaneously in a scene, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Tanner D. Harms , Steven L. Brunton , Beverley J. McKeon

This study introduces a novel approach to autonomous motion planning, informing an analytical algorithm with a reinforcement learning (RL) agent within a Frenet coordinate system. The combination directly addresses the challenges of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Rainer Trauth , Alexander Hobmeier , Johannes Betz

Spatial intelligence is the ability of a machine to perceive, reason, and act in three dimensions within space and time. Recent advancements in large-scale auto-regressive models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Junyi Chen , Di Huang , Weicai Ye , Wanli Ouyang , Tong He

Robotic mobility in microgravity is necessary to expand human utilization and exploration of outer space. Bio-inspired multi-legged robots are a possible solution for safe and precise locomotion. However, a dynamic motion of a robot in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Warley F. R. Ribeiro , Kentaro Uno , Masazumi Imai , Koki Murase , Kazuya Yoshida

Inverted landing is a challenging feat to perform in aerial robots, especially without external positioning. However, it is routinely performed by biological fliers such as bees, flies, and bats. Our previous observations of landing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Bryan Habas , Bader AlAttar , Brian Davis , Jack W. Langelaan , Bo Cheng

Language-guided robots must be able to both ask humans questions and understand answers. Much existing work focuses only on the latter. In this paper, we go beyond instruction following and introduce a two-agent task where one agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Homero Roman Roman , Yonatan Bisk , Jesse Thomason , Asli Celikyilmaz , Jianfeng Gao

This paper addresses the challenge of terrain-adaptive dynamic locomotion in humanoid robots, a problem traditionally tackled by optimization-based methods or reinforcement learning (RL). Optimization-based methods, such as model-predictive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shangqun Yu , Nisal Perera , Daniel Marew , Donghyun Kim

Robust disturbance rejection remains a longstanding challenge in humanoid locomotion, particularly on unstructured terrains where sensing is unreliable and model mismatch is pronounced. While perception information, such as height map,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Qixin Zeng , Hongyin Zhang , Shangke Lyu , Junxi Jin , Donglin Wang , Chao Huang

Learning open-vocabulary physical skills for simulated agents presents a significant challenge in artificial intelligence. Current reinforcement learning approaches face critical limitations: manually designed rewards lack scalability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Jieming Cui , Tengyu Liu , Ziyu Meng , Jiale Yu , Ran Song , Wei Zhang , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Accurate prediction of human behavior is crucial for AI systems to effectively support real-world applications, such as autonomous robots anticipating and assisting with human tasks. Real-world scenarios frequently present challenges such…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Kojiro Takeyama , Yimeng Liu , Misha Sra

We introduce a new memory architecture, Bayesian Relational Memory (BRM), to improve the generalization ability for semantic visual navigation agents in unseen environments, where an agent is given a semantic target to navigate towards. BRM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Yi Wu , Yuxin Wu , Aviv Tamar , Stuart Russell , Georgia Gkioxari , Yuandong Tian

The visual simultaneous localization and mapping(vSLAM) is widely used in GPS-denied and open field environments for ground and surface robots. However, due to the frequent perception failures derived from lacking visual texture or the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zhihao Wang , Haoyao Chen , Shiwu Zhang , Yunjiang Lou

Current state-of-the-art paradigms predominantly treat Text-to-Motion (T2M) generation as a direct translation problem, mapping symbolic language directly to continuous poses. While effective for simple actions, this System 1 approach faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yijie Qian , Juncheng Wang , Yuxiang Feng , Chao Xu , Wang Lu , Yang Liu , Baigui Sun , Yiqiang Chen , Yong Liu , Shujun Wang

Walking is a key movement of interest in biomechanics, yet gold-standard data collection methods are time- and cost-expensive. This paper presents a real-time, multimodal, high sample rate lower-limb motion capture framework, based on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Josée Mallah , Yu Zhu , Kailang Xu , Gurvinder S. Virk , Shaoping Bai , Luigi G. Occhipinti

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) enables robots to learn complex behaviors through interaction with the environment. However, due to the unrestricted nature of the learning algorithms, the resulting solutions are often brittle and appear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Oliver Hausdörfer , Alexander von Rohr , Éric Lefort , Angela Schoellig

Most locomotion methods for humanoid robots focus on leg-based gaits, yet natural bipeds frequently rely on hands, knees, and elbows to establish additional contacts for stability and support in complex environments. This paper introduces…