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Optimal Control for legged robots has gone through a paradigm shift from position-based to torque-based control, owing to the latter's compliant and robust nature. In parallel to this shift, the community has also turned to Deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Shivam Sood , Ge Sun , Peizhuo Li , Guillaume Sartoretti

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful method for addressing complex control problems, particularly those involving underactuated robotic systems. However, in some cases, policies may require refinement to achieve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Marco Calì , Alberto Sinigaglia , Niccolò Turcato , Ruggero Carli , Gian Antonio Susto

The human body demonstrates exceptional motor capabilities-such as standing steadily on one foot or performing a high kick with the leg raised over 1.5 meters-both requiring precise balance control. While recent research on humanoid control…

Robot learning in high-dimensional control settings, such as humanoid locomotion, presents persistent challenges for reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms due to unstable dynamics, complex contact interactions, and sensitivity to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Khang Nguyen , Khai Nguyen , An T. Le , Jan Peters , Manfred Huber , Ngo Anh Vien , Minh Nhat Vu

Humanoid robots have seen significant advancements in both design and control, with a growing emphasis on integrating these aspects to enhance overall performance. Traditionally, robot design has followed a sequential process, where control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Tianyi Jin , Melya Boukheddimi , Rohit Kumar , Gabriele Fadini , Frank Kirchner

Humanoids operating in real-world workspaces must frequently execute task-driven, short-range movements to SE(2) target poses. To be practical, these transitions must be fast, robust, and energy efficient. While learning-based locomotion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Pranay Dugar , Mohitvishnu S. Gadde , Jonah Siekmann , Yesh Godse , Aayam Shrestha , Alan Fern

Due to the limited smartness and abilities of machine intelligence, currently autonomous vehicles are still unable to handle all kinds of situations and completely replace drivers. Because humans exhibit strong robustness and adaptability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Jingda Wu , Zhiyu Huang , Chao Huang , Zhongxu Hu , Peng Hang , Yang Xing , Chen Lv

State-of-the-art human-in-the-loop robot grasping is hugely suffered by Electromyography (EMG) inference robustness issues. As a workaround, researchers have been looking into integrating EMG with other signals, often in an ad hoc manner.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mohammadreza Sharif , Deniz Erdogmus , Christopher Amato , Taskin Padir

Falling is an inherent risk of humanoid mobility. Maintaining stability is thus a primary safety focus in robot control and learning, yet no existing approach fully averts loss of balance. When instability does occur, prior work addresses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhengjie Xu , Ye Li , Kwan-yee Lin , Stella X. Yu

Synthesizing planning and control policies in robotics is a fundamental task, further complicated by factors such as complex logic specifications and high-dimensional robot dynamics. This paper presents a novel reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Zikang Xiong , Daniel Lawson , Joe Eappen , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Suresh Jagannathan

Legged robots must exhibit robust and agile locomotion across diverse, unstructured terrains, a challenge exacerbated under blind locomotion settings where terrain information is unavailable. This work introduces a hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Matheus P. Angarola , Francisco Affonso , Marcelo Becker

Humanoid robots, capable of assuming human roles in various workplaces, have become essential to embodied intelligence. However, as robots with complex physical structures, learning a control model that can operate robustly across diverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sixu Lin , Guanren Qiao , Yunxin Tai , Ang Li , Kui Jia , Guiliang Liu

This paper presents a hierarchical framework for Deep Reinforcement Learning that acquires motor skills for a variety of push recovery and balancing behaviors, i.e., ankle, hip, foot tilting, and stepping strategies. The policy is trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Chuanyu Yang , Kai Yuan , Wolfgang Merkt , Taku Komura , Sethu Vijayakumar , Zhibin Li

The design of feedback controllers for bipedal robots is challenging due to the hybrid nature of its dynamics and the complexity imposed by high-dimensional bipedal models. In this paper, we present a novel approach for the design of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Guillermo A. Castillo , Bowen Weng , Ayonga Hereid , Wei Zhang

Recent advances in robot imitation learning have yielded powerful visuomotor policies capable of manipulating a wide variety of objects directly from monocular visual inputs. However, monocular observations inherently lack reliable depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Evans Han , Yunfan Jiang , Yingke Wang , Haoyue Xiao , Huang Huang , Jianwen Xie , Jiajun Wu , Li Fei-Fei , Ruohan Zhang

Loco-Manipulation for humanoid robots aims to enable robots to integrate mobility with upper-body tracking capabilities. Most existing approaches adopt hierarchical architectures that decompose control into isolated upper-body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wandong Sun , Luying Feng , Baoshi Cao , Yang Liu , Yaochu Jin , Zongwu Xie

Deep reinforcement learning produces robust locomotion policies for legged robots over challenging terrains. To date, few studies have leveraged model-based methods to combine these locomotion skills with the precise control of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Yuntao Ma , Farbod Farshidian , Takahiro Miki , Joonho Lee , Marco Hutter

This study proposes a framework for human-like autonomous car-following planning based on deep reinforcement learning (deep RL). Historical driving data are fed into a simulation environment where an RL agent learns from trial and error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Meixin Zhu , Xuesong Wang , Yinhai Wang

Unsupervised reinforcement learning (RL) aims at pre-training agents that can solve a wide range of downstream tasks in complex environments. Despite recent advancements, existing approaches suffer from several limitations: they may require…

Existing navigation policies for autonomous robots tend to focus on collision avoidance while ignoring human-robot interactions in social life. For instance, robots can pass along the corridor safer and easier if pedestrians notice them.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Quecheng Qiu , Shunyi Yao , Jing Wang , Jun Ma , Guangda Chen , Jianmin Ji