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Prompt-based learning has been demonstrated as a compelling paradigm contributing to large language models' tremendous success (LLMs). Inspired by their success in language tasks, existing research has leveraged LLMs in embodied instruction…

Despite the recent progress in deep learning, most approaches still go for a silo-like solution, focusing on learning each task in isolation: training a separate neural network for each individual task. Many real-world problems, however,…

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Legged robots have shown remarkable advantages in navigating uneven terrain. However, realizing effective locomotion and manipulation tasks on quadruped robots is still challenging. In addition, object and terrain parameters are generally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Mohsen Sombolestan , Quan Nguyen

The deployment of agile autonomous systems in challenging, unstructured environments requires adaptation capabilities and robustness to uncertainties. Existing robust and adaptive controllers, such as those based on model predictive control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Tong Zhao , Andrea Tagliabue , Jonathan P. How

Utilizing a servo to tilt each rotor transforms quadrotors from underactuated to overactuated systems, allowing for independent control of both attitude and position, which provides advantages for aerial manipulation. However, this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jinjie Li , Junichiro Sugihara , Moju Zhao

Although humanoid and quadruped robots provide a wide range of capabilities, current control methods, such as Deep Reinforcement Learning, focus mainly on single skills. This approach is inefficient for solving more complicated tasks where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Maciej Stępień , Rafael Kourdis , Constant Roux , Olivier Stasse

Recent research has highlighted the powerful capabilities of imitation learning in robotics. Leveraging generative models, particularly diffusion models, these approaches offer notable advantages such as strong multi-task generalization,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Xinyao Qin , Xiaoteng Ma , Yang Qi , Qihan Liu , Chuanyi Xue , Ning Gui , Qinyu Dong , Jun Yang , Bin Liang

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

We present a novel control strategy for dynamic legged locomotion in complex scenarios, that considers information about the morphology of the terrain in contexts when only on-board mapping and computation are available. The strategy is…

Shifting from traditional control strategies to Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) for legged robots poses inherent challenges, especially when addressing real-world physical constraints during training. While high-fidelity simulations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Joonho Lee , Lukas Schroth , Victor Klemm , Marko Bjelonic , Alexander Reske , Marco Hutter

In this work, we investigate task planning for mobile robots under linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. This problem is particularly challenging when robots navigate in continuous workspaces due to the high computational complexity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Ruijia Liu , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

The mechanical simplicity, hover capabilities, and high agility of quadrotors lead to a fast adaption in the industry for inspection, exploration, and urban aerial mobility. On the other hand, the unstable and underactuated dynamics of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Fang Nan , Sihao Sun , Philipp Foehn , Davide Scaramuzza

Traditional approaches to quadruped control frequently employ simplified, hand-derived models. This significantly reduces the capability of the robot since its effective kinematic range is curtailed. In addition, kinodynamic constraints are…

Perceptive locomotion for legged robots requires anticipating and adapting to complex, dynamic environments. Model Predictive Control (MPC) serves as a strong baseline, providing interpretable motion planning with constraint enforcement,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Aditya Shirwatkar , Satyam Gupta , Shishir Kolathaya

Modern quadrupeds are skillful in traversing or even sprinting on uneven terrains in a remote uncontrolled environment. However, survival in the wild requires not only maneuverability, but also the ability to handle potential critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Dikai Liu , Tianwei Zhang , Jianxiong Yin , Simon See

The configuration of most robotic systems lies in continuous transformation groups. However, in mobile robot trajectory tracking, many recent works still naively utilize optimization methods for elements in vector space without considering…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Jiawei Tang , Shuang Wu , Bo Lan , Yahui Dong , Yuqiang Jin , Guangjian Tian , Wen-An Zhang , Ling Shi

Training and deploying reinforcement learning (RL) policies for robots, especially in accomplishing specific tasks, presents substantial challenges. Recent advancements have explored diverse reward function designs, training techniques,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yifei Yao , Wentao He , Chenyu Gu , Jiaheng Du , Fuwei Tan , Zhen Zhu , Junguo Lu

Recent work in Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown that a unified Transformer trained under a masked auto-encoding objective can effectively capture the relationships between different modalities (e.g., states, actions, rewards)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Kehan Wen , Yutong Hu , Yao Mu , Lei Ke

Robots are increasingly integrated across industries, particularly in healthcare. However, many valuable applications for quadrupedal robots remain overlooked. This research explores the effectiveness of three reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Emma M. A. Harrison

The aim of this work is to define a planner that enables robust legged locomotion for complex multi-agent systems consisting of several holonomically constrained quadrupeds. To this end, we employ a methodology based on behavioral systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Randall T Fawcett , Leila Amanzadeh , Jeeseop Kim , Aaron D Ames , Kaveh Akbari Hamed