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Learning a locomotion controller for a musculoskeletal system is challenging due to over-actuation and high-dimensional action space. While many reinforcement learning methods attempt to address this issue, they often struggle to learn…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Henri-Jacques Geiß , Firas Al-Hafez , Andre Seyfarth , Jan Peters , Davide Tateo

This work presents an extended framework for learning-based bipedal locomotion that incorporates a heuristic step-planning strategy guided by desired torso velocity tracking. The framework enables precise interaction between a humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 William Suliman , Ekaterina Chaikovskaia , Egor Davydenko , Roman Gorbachev

In this paper, we develop a neural network model to predict future human motion from an observed human motion history. We propose a non-autoregressive transformer architecture to leverage its parallel nature for easier training and fast,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Mohammad Mahdavian , Payam Nikdel , Mahdi TaherAhmadi , Mo Chen

Humanoid robots require precise locomotion and dexterous manipulation to perform challenging loco-manipulation tasks. Yet existing approaches, modular or end-to-end, are deficient in manipulation-aware locomotion. This confines the robot to…

This paper presents a hierarchical control framework that enables robust quadrupedal locomotion on a dynamic rigid surface (DRS) with general and unknown vertical motions. The key novelty of the framework lies in its higher layer, which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Amir Iqbal , Sushant Veer , Christopher Niezrecki , Yan Gu

In contrast to quadruped robots that can navigate diverse terrains using a "blind" policy, humanoid robots require accurate perception for stable locomotion due to their high degrees of freedom and inherently unstable morphology. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Junfeng Long , Junli Ren , Moji Shi , Zirui Wang , Tao Huang , Ping Luo , Jiangmiao Pang

Motion imitation is a pivotal and effective approach for humanoid robots to achieve a more diverse range of complex and expressive movements, making their performances more human-like. However, the significant differences in kinematics and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zhenghan Chen , Haodong Zhang , Dongqi Wang , Jiyu Yu , Haocheng Xu , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

Recent advancements in whole-body control through deep reinforcement learning have enabled humanoid robots to achieve remarkable progress in real-world chal lenging locomotion skills. However, existing approaches often struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yuen-Fui Lau , Qihan Zhao , Yinhuai Wang , Runyi Yu , Hok Wai Tsui , Qifeng Chen , Ping Tan

Tilt-rotor aerial robots enable omnidirectional maneuvering through thrust vectoring, but introduce significant control challenges due to the strong coupling between joint and rotor dynamics. While model-based controllers can achieve high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Wentao Zhang , Zhaoqi Ma , Jinjie Li , Huayi Wang , Haokun Liu , Junichiro Sugihara , Chen Chen , Yicheng Chen , Moju Zhao

Learning-based approaches have recently shown notable success in legged locomotion. However, these approaches often lack accountability, necessitating empirical tests to determine their effectiveness. In this work, we are interested in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Xingpeng Xia , Jason J. Choi , Ayush Agrawal , Koushil Sreenath , Claire J. Tomlin , Somil Bansal

Human-robot shared control, which integrates the advantages of both humans and robots, is an effective approach to facilitate efficient surgical operation. Learning from demonstration (LfD) techniques can be used to automate some of the…

Humanoid-Gym is an easy-to-use reinforcement learning (RL) framework based on Nvidia Isaac Gym, designed to train locomotion skills for humanoid robots, emphasizing zero-shot transfer from simulation to the real-world environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xinyang Gu , Yen-Jen Wang , Jianyu Chen

Long-horizon, high-dynamic motion tracking on humanoids remains brittle because absolute joint commands cannot compensate model-plant mismatch, leading to error accumulation. We propose RobotDancing, a simple, scalable framework that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Zhenguo Sun , Yibo Peng , Yuan Meng , Xukun Li , Bo-Sheng Huang , Zhenshan Bing , Xinlong Wang , Alois Knoll

We present deep neural network methodology to reconstruct the 3d pose and shape of people, given an input RGB image. We rely on a recently introduced, expressivefull body statistical 3d human model, GHUM, trained end-to-end, and learn to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Andrei Zanfir , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Mihai Zanfir , William T. Freeman , Rahul Sukthankar , Cristian Sminchisescu

Mastering complex sequential tasks continues to pose a significant challenge in robotics. While there has been progress in learning long-horizon manipulation tasks, most existing approaches lack rigorous mathematical guarantees for ensuring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Alexandre St-Aubin , Amin Abyaneh , Hsiu-Chin Lin

Achieving versatile and naturalistic whole-body control for humanoid robot scene-interaction remains a significant challenge. While some recent works have demonstrated autonomous humanoid interactive control, they are constrained to rigid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Haoran Yang , Jiacheng Bao , Yucheng Xin , Haoming Song , Yuyang Tian , Bin Zhao , Dong Wang , Xuelong Li

This paper presents a novel model-free method for humanoid-robot quasi-static movement control. Traditional model-based methods often require precise robot model parameters. Additionally, existing learning-based frameworks often train the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Boren Jiang , Ximeng Tao , Yuanfeng Han , Wanze Li , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Multilegged robots have the ability to perform stable locomotion on relatively rough terrain. However, the complexity of legged robots over wheeled or tracked robots make them difficult to control. This paper presents OpenSHC (Open-source…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Benjamin Tam , Fletcher Talbot , Ryan Steindl , Alberto Elfes , Navinda Kottege

One of the challenges for the robotics community is to deploy robots which can reliably operate in real world scenarios together with humans. A crucial requirement for legged robots is the capability to properly balance on their feet,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Stefano Dafarra , Francesco Romano , Francesco Nori

Teleoperation is a powerful method to generate reference motions and enable humanoid robots to perform a broad range of tasks. However, teleoperation becomes challenging when using hand contacts and non-coplanar surfaces, often leading to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Stephen McCrory , Romeo Orsolino , Dhruv Thanki , Luigi Penco , Robert Griffin