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Navigation is an essential capability for mobile robots. In this paper, we propose a generalized yet effective 3M (i.e., multi-robot, multi-scenario, and multi-stage) training framework. We optimize a mapless navigation policy with a robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Tingxiang Fan , Xinjing Cheng , Jia Pan , Dinesh Manocha , Ruigang Yang

In this article, we show that learned policies can be applied to solve legged locomotion control tasks with extensive flight phases, such as those encountered in space exploration. Using an off-the-shelf deep reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Nikita Rudin , Hendrik Kolvenbach , Vassilios Tsounis , Marco Hutter

This article presents Platform Adaptive Locomotion (PAL), a unified control method for quadrupedal robots with different morphologies and dynamics. We leverage deep reinforcement learning to train a single locomotion policy on procedurally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-11 David Rytz , Suyoung Choi , Wanming Yu , Wolfgang Merkt , Jemin Hwangbo , Ioannis Havoutis

We present a diffusion-based approach to quadrupedal locomotion that simultaneously addresses the limitations of learning and interpolating between multiple skills and of (modes) offline adapting to new locomotion behaviours after training.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Reece O'Mahoney , Alexander L. Mitchell , Wanming Yu , Ingmar Posner , Ioannis Havoutis

In this paper, we introduce a model of evolution and learning in robots that co-optimizes a distribution of latent design vectors (genotypes) and a mixture of control experts (neural modules), which are gated by the latent coordinates of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yibin Wang , Muhan Li , Zihan Guo , Sam Kriegman

Generating robot motion that fulfills multiple tasks simultaneously is challenging due to the geometric constraints imposed by the robot. In this paper, we propose to solve multi-task problems through learning structured policies from human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 M. Asif Rana , Anqi Li , Dieter Fox , Sonia Chernova , Byron Boots , Nathan Ratliff

Cross-embodiment manipulation is crucial for enhancing the scalability of robot manipulation and reducing the high cost of data collection. However, the significant differences between embodiments, such as variations in action spaces and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Juncheng Mu , Sizhe Yang , Hojin Bae , Feiyu Jia , Qingwei Ben , Boyi Li , Huazhe Xu , Jiangmiao Pang

This paper presents a control framework that combines model-based optimal control and reinforcement learning (RL) to achieve versatile and robust legged locomotion. Our approach enhances the RL training process by incorporating on-demand…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Dongho Kang , Jin Cheng , Miguel Zamora , Fatemeh Zargarbashi , Stelian Coros

Recent robot foundation models largely rely on large-scale behavior cloning, which imitates expert actions but discards transferable dynamics knowledge embedded in heterogeneous embodied data. While the Unified World Model (UWM) formulation…

Representation learning and unsupervised skill discovery can allow robots to acquire diverse and reusable behaviors without the need for task-specific rewards. In this work, we use unsupervised reinforcement learning to learn a latent…

Quadruped animals are capable of exhibiting a diverse range of locomotion gaits. While progress has been made in demonstrating such gaits on robots, current methods rely on motion priors, dynamics models, or other forms of extensive manual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-23 David DeFazio , Yohei Hayamizu , Shiqi Zhang

This paper develops a hierarchical learning and optimization framework that can learn and achieve well-coordinated multi-skill locomotion. The learned multi-skill policy can switch between skills automatically and naturally in tracking…

While the animals' Fin-to-Limb evolution has been well-researched in biology, such morphological transformation remains under-adopted in the modern design of advanced robotic limbs. This paper investigates a novel class of overconstrained…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models hold promise for generalist robotics but currently struggle with data scarcity, architectural inefficiencies, and the inability to generalize across different hardware platforms. We introduce RDT2, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Songming Liu , Bangguo Li , Kai Ma , Lingxuan Wu , Hengkai Tan , Xiao Ouyang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Learned locomotion policies can rapidly adapt to diverse environments similar to those experienced during training but lack a mechanism for fast tuning when they fail in an out-of-distribution test environment. This necessitates a slow and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Gabriel B Margolis , Pulkit Agrawal

Humanoid Whole-Body Controllers trained with reinforcement learning (RL) have recently achieved remarkable performance, yet many target a single robot embodiment. Variations in dynamics, degrees of freedom (DoFs), and kinematic topology…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Quanquan Peng , Yunfeng Lin , Yufei Xue , Jiangmiao Pang , Weinan Zhang

Training reinforcement learning (RL) policies for legged locomotion often requires extensive environment interactions, which are costly and time-consuming. We propose Symmetry-Guided Memory Augmentation (SGMA), a framework that improves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Kaixi Bao , Chenhao Li , Yarden As , Andreas Krause , Marco Hutter

Cross-embodiment video generation aims to transfer motions across different humanoid embodiments, such as human-to-robot and robot-to-robot, enabling scalable data generation for embodied intelligence. A major challenge in this setting is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yiren Song , Xiyao Deng , Pei Yang , Yihan Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

Achieving versatile humanoid locomotion with a single policy presents a critical scalability challenge. Prevailing methods often rely on distilling multiple terrain-specific teacher policies into a unified student policy. However, while…

Loco-manipulation is a key capability for legged robots to perform practical mobile manipulation tasks, such as transporting and pushing objects, in real-world environments. However, learning robust loco-manipulation skills remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Mili Das , Morgan Byrd , Donghoon Baek , Sehoon Ha