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Combining manipulation with the mobility of legged robots is essential for a wide range of robotic applications. However, integrating an arm with a mobile base significantly increases the system's complexity, making precise end-effector…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Tifanny Portela , Andrei Cramariuc , Mayank Mittal , Marco Hutter

Learning whole-body control for locomotion and arm motions in a single policy has challenges, as the two tasks have conflicting goals. For instance, efficient locomotion typically favors a horizontal base orientation, while end-effector…

Whole-body loco-manipulation for quadruped robots with arms remains a challenging problem, particularly in achieving multi-task control. To address this, we propose MLM, a reinforcement learning framework driven by both real-world and…

Controlling contact forces during interactions is critical for locomotion and manipulation tasks. While sim-to-real reinforcement learning (RL) has succeeded in many contact-rich problems, current RL methods achieve forceful interactions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Tifanny Portela , Gabriel B. Margolis , Yandong Ji , Pulkit Agrawal

Humanoid robots have attracted significant attention in recent years. Reinforcement Learning (RL) is one of the main ways to control the whole body of humanoid robots. RL enables agents to complete tasks by learning from environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Xianqi Zhang , Hongliang Wei , Wenrui Wang , Xingtao Wang , Xiaopeng Fan , Debin Zhao

Loco-manipulation, physical interaction of various objects that is concurrently coordinated with locomotion, remains a major challenge for legged robots due to the need for both precise end-effector control and robustness to unmodeled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jin Cheng , Dongho Kang , Gabriele Fadini , Guanya Shi , Stelian Coros

In recent years, reinforcement learning (RL) based quadrupedal locomotion control has emerged as an extensively researched field, driven by the potential advantages of autonomous learning and adaptation compared to traditional control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Maurya Gurram , Prakash Kumar Uttam , Shantipal S. Ohol

Equipping quadruped robots with manipulators provides unique loco-manipulation capabilities, enabling diverse practical applications. This integration creates a more complex system that has increased difficulties in modeling and control.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Dianyong Hou , Chengrui Zhu , Zhen Zhang , Zhibin Li , Chuang Guo , Yong Liu

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a promising approach to developing controllers for quadrupedal robots. Conventionally, an RL design for locomotion follows a position-based paradigm, wherein an RL policy outputs target joint positions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Shuxiao Chen , Bike Zhang , Mark W. Mueller , Akshara Rai , Koushil Sreenath

By combining the agility of legged locomotion with the capabilities of manipulation, loco-manipulation platforms have the potential to perform complex tasks in real-world applications. To this end, state-of-the-art quadrupeds with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Benjamin Hoffman , Jin Cheng , Chenhao Li , Stelian Coros

Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods have been proven successful in solving manipulation tasks autonomously. However, RL is still not widely adopted on real robotic systems because working with real hardware entails additional challenges,…

This work presents a meta-reinforcement learning approach to develop a universal locomotion control policy capable of zero-shot generalization across diverse quadrupedal platforms. The proposed method trains an RL agent equipped with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Fatemeh Zargarbashi , Fabrizio Di Giuro , Jin Cheng , Dongho Kang , Bhavya Sukhija , Stelian Coros

We propose to address quadrupedal locomotion tasks using Reinforcement Learning (RL) with a Transformer-based model that learns to combine proprioceptive information and high-dimensional depth sensor inputs. While learning-based locomotion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Ruihan Yang , Minghao Zhang , Nicklas Hansen , Huazhe Xu , Xiaolong Wang

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a promising method to develop humanoid robot locomotion controllers. Despite the robust and stable locomotion demonstrated by previous RL controllers, their behavior often lacks the natural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Qiyuan Zhang , Chenfan Weng , Guanwu Li , Fulai He , Yusheng Cai

Simultaneous locomotion and manipulation enables robots to interact with their environment beyond the constraints of a fixed base. However, coordinating legged locomotion with arm manipulation, while considering safety and compliance during…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Alexander Schperberg , Yeping Wang , Stefano Di Cairano

Modern Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms promise to solve difficult motor control problems directly from raw sensory inputs. Their attraction is due in part to the fact that they can represent a general class of methods that allow to…

Whole-body humanoid locomotion is challenging due to high-dimensional control, morphological instability, and the need for real-time adaptation to various terrains using onboard perception. Directly applying reinforcement learning (RL) with…

Recently reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for quadrupedal locomotion, which can save the manual effort in conventional approaches such as designing skill-specific controllers. However, due to the complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Haojie Shi , Bo Zhou , Hongsheng Zeng , Fan Wang , Yueqiang Dong , Jiangyong Li , Kang Wang , Hao Tian , Max Q. -H. Meng

Humans possess delicate dynamic balance mechanisms that enable them to maintain stability across diverse terrains and under extreme conditions. However, despite significant advances recently, existing locomotion algorithms for humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Weiji Xie , Chenjia Bai , Jiyuan Shi , Junkai Yang , Yunfei Ge , Weinan Zhang , Xuelong Li

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated impressive performance in legged locomotion over various challenging environments. However, due to the sim-to-real gap and lack of explainability, unconstrained RL policies deployed in the real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Haoyu Wang , Ruyi Zhou , Liang Ding , Tie Liu , Zhelin Zhang , Peng Xu , Haibo Gao , Zongquan Deng
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