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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

Deep Reinforcement Learning techniques are achieving state-of-the-art results in robust legged locomotion. While there exists a wide variety of legged platforms such as quadruped, humanoids, and hexapods, the field is still missing a single…

Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in complex robotic systems (eg. quadruped locomotion). In previous works, the RL-based controller was typically implemented as a single neural network with concatenated observation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Yanjiang Guo , Zheyuan Jiang , Yen-Jen Wang , Jingyue Gao , Jianyu Chen

Bipedal walking is one of the most difficult but exciting challenges in robotics. The difficulties arise from the complexity of high-dimensional dynamics, sensing and actuation limitations combined with real-time and computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Diego Rodriguez , Sven Behnke

Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) are two prominent strategies for controlling legged robots, each with unique strengths. RL learns control policies through system interaction, adapting to various scenarios,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Shivayogi Akki , Tan Chen

Quadruped robots require robust and general locomotion skills to exploit their mobility potential in complex and challenging environments. In this work, we present the first implementation of a robust end-to-end learning-based controller on…

We investigated the application of haptic feedback control and deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to robot-assisted dressing. Our method uses DRL to simultaneously train human and robot control policies as separate neural networks using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Alexander Clegg , Zackory Erickson , Patrick Grady , Greg Turk , Charles C. Kemp , C. Karen Liu

Imitation learning is a promising approach for training humanoid robots to both walk and manipulate, but it requires a large number of demonstrations, which are time-intensive and difficult to collect via teleoperation. Existing…

Quadruped robots are designed to achieve agile and robust locomotion by drawing inspiration from legged animals. However, most existing control methods for quadruped robots lack a key capacity observed in animals: the ability to exhibit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Aoqian Zhang , Zixuan Zhuang , Chunzheng Wang , Shuzhi Sam Ge , Fan Shi , Cheng Xiang

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

Recent breakthroughs both in reinforcement learning and trajectory optimization have made significant advances towards real world robotic system deployment. Reinforcement learning (RL) can be applied to many problems without needing any…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Guillaume Bellegarda , Katie Byl

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for autonomously acquiring complex behaviors from low level sensor observations. Although a large portion of deep RL research has focused on applications in video games…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Julian Ibarz , Jie Tan , Chelsea Finn , Mrinal Kalakrishnan , Peter Pastor , Sergey Levine

Multimodal Large Models (MLMs) are becoming a significant research focus, combining powerful large language models with multimodal learning to perform complex tasks across different data modalities. This review explores the latest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xinji Mai , Zeng Tao , Junxiong Lin , Haoran Wang , Yang Chang , Yanlan Kang , Yan Wang , Wenqiang Zhang

This thesis work presents a more efficient and effective approach to training control-related tasks for humanoid robots using Reinforcement Learning (RL). The traditional RL methods are limited in adapting to real-world environments,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jonathan Spraggett

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

Cognitive map learners (CML) have been shown to enable hierarchical, compositional machine learning. That is, interpedently trained CML modules can be arbitrarily composed together to solve more complex problems without task-specific…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nathan McDonald , Colyn Seeley , Christian Brazeau

Model predictive control (MPC) combined with reduced-order template models has emerged as a powerful tool for trajectory optimization in dynamic legged locomotion. However, loco-manipulation tasks performed by legged robots introduce…

While reinforcement learning (RL) has the potential to enable robots to autonomously acquire a wide range of skills, in practice, RL usually requires manual, per-task engineering of reward functions, especially in real world settings where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Tianhe Yu , Gleb Shevchuk , Dorsa Sadigh , Chelsea Finn

Reinforcement Learning (RL) allows learning non-trivial robot control laws purely from data. However, many successful applications of RL have relied on ad-hoc regularizations, such as hand-crafted curricula, to regularize the learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Pascal Klink , Florian Wolf , Kai Ploeger , Jan Peters , Joni Pajarinen

Learning versatile whole-body skills by tracking various human motions is a fundamental step toward general-purpose humanoid robots. This task is particularly challenging because a single policy must master a broad repertoire of motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jinrui Han , Weiji Xie , Jiakun Zheng , Jiyuan Shi , Weinan Zhang , Ting Xiao , Chenjia Bai