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Reinforcement learning (RL), driven by data-driven methods, has become an effective solution for robot leg motion control problems. However, the mainstream RL methods for bipedal robot terrain traversal, such as teacher-student policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Haodong Huang , Shilong Sun , Yuanpeng Wang , Chiyao Li , Hailin Huang , Wenfu Xu

Creating systems capable of generating virtually infinite variations of complex and novel behaviour without predetermined goals or limits is a major challenge in the field of AI. This challenge has been addressed through the development of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Fuma Aki , Riku Ikeda , Takumi Saito , Ciaran Regan , Mizuki Oka

While reinforcement learning algorithms can learn effective policies for complex tasks, these policies are often brittle to even minor task variations, especially when variations are not explicitly provided during training. One natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Saurabh Kumar , Aviral Kumar , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Limbless terrestrial animals exhibit exceptional locomotor versatility and control, currently unmatched by engineered counterparts. Here, we introduce a computational framework that enables soft synthetic snakes to navigate unstructured,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiaotian Zhang , Ali Albazroun , Tixian Wang , Songyuan Cui , Prashant G. Mehta , Mattia Gazzola

Multi-agent navigation in dynamic environments is of great industrial value when deploying a large scale fleet of robot to real-world applications. This paper proposes a decentralized partially observable multi-agent path planning with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Zuxin Liu , Baiming Chen , Hongyi Zhou , Guru Koushik , Martial Hebert , Ding Zhao

Control policy learning for modular robot locomotion has previously been limited to proprioceptive feedback and flat terrain. This paper develops policies for modular systems with vision traversing more challenging environments. These…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Julian Whitman , Howie Choset

A grand goal in AI is to build a robot that can accurately navigate based on natural language instructions, which requires the agent to perceive the scene, understand and ground language, and act in the real-world environment. One key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Hao Tan , Licheng Yu , Mohit Bansal

Multi-legged robots offer enhanced stability in complex terrains, yet autonomously learning natural and robust motions in such environments remains challenging. Drawing inspiration from animals' progressive learning patterns, from simple to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yinghui Li , Jinze Wu , Xin Liu , Weizhong Guo , Yufei Xue

In this paper, we consider the problem of building learning agents that can efficiently learn to navigate in constrained environments. The main goal is to design agents that can efficiently learn to understand and generalize to different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Kei Ota , Yoko Sasaki , Devesh K. Jha , Yusuke Yoshiyasu , Asako Kanezaki

Quadrupedal robots have demonstrated exceptional locomotion capabilities through Reinforcement Learning (RL), including extreme parkour maneuvers. However, integrating locomotion skills with navigation in quadrupedal robots has not been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dewei Wang , Chenjia Bai , Chenhui Li , Jiyuan Shi , Yan Ding , Chi Zhang , Bin Zhao

Despite growing interest in developing legged robots that emulate biological locomotion for agile navigation of complex environments, acquiring a diverse repertoire of skills remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. Existing methods can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ning Huang , Zhentao Xie , Qinchuan Li

Legged robots are becoming increasingly powerful and popular in recent years for their potential to bring the mobility of autonomous agents to the next level. This work presents a deep reinforcement learning approach that learns a robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Zhaocheng Liu , Fernando Acero , Zhibin Li

In recent years, humanoid robots have garnered significant attention from both academia and industry due to their high adaptability to environments and human-like characteristics. With the rapid advancement of reinforcement learning,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Qiang Zhang , Gang Han , Jingkai Sun , Wen Zhao , Chenghao Sun , Jiahang Cao , Jiaxu Wang , Yijie Guo , Renjing Xu

We present ZSL-RPPO, an improved zero-shot learning architecture that overcomes the limitations of teacher-student neural networks and enables generating robust, reliable, and versatile locomotion for quadrupedal robots in challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yao Zhao , Tao Wu , Yijie Zhu , Xiang Lu , Jun Wang , Haitham Bou-Ammar , Xinyu Zhang , Peng Du

Recent progress in legged locomotion has allowed highly dynamic and parkour-like behaviors for robots, similar to their biological counterparts. Yet, these methods mostly rely on egocentric (first-person) perception, limiting their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rémy Rahem , Wael Suleiman

Legged robots are well-suited for navigating terrains inaccessible to wheeled robots, making them ideal for applications in search and rescue or space exploration. However, current control methods often struggle to generalize across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Nikita Rudin , Junzhe He , Joshua Aurand , Marco Hutter

Reinforcement learning for embodied agents is a challenging problem. The accumulated reward to be optimized is often a very rugged function, and gradient methods are impaired by many local optimizers. We demonstrate, in an experimental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Guido Montufar , Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi , Nihat Ay

We introduce a novel co-design method for autonomous moving agents' shape attributes and locomotion by combining deep reinforcement learning and evolution with user control. Our main inspiration comes from evolution, which has led to wide…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Zhiquan Wang , Bedrich Benes , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Christos Mousas

Generating robot motion that fulfills multiple tasks simultaneously is challenging due to the geometric constraints imposed by the robot. In this paper, we propose to solve multi-task problems through learning structured policies from human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 M. Asif Rana , Anqi Li , Dieter Fox , Sonia Chernova , Byron Boots , Nathan Ratliff

Compact quadrupedal robots are proving increasingly suitable for deployment in real-world scenarios. Their smaller size fosters easy integration into human environments. Nevertheless, real-time locomotion on uneven terrains remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Davide Plozza , Patricia Apostol , Paul Joseph , Simon Schläpfer , Michele Magno