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Humanoid robots are made to resemble humans but their locomotion abilities are far from ours in terms of agility and versatility. When humans walk on complex terrains, or face external disturbances, they combine a set of strategies,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Mohammadreza Kasaei , Miguel Abreu , Nuno Lau , Artur Pereira , Luis Paulo Reis

Achieving robust vision-based humanoid locomotion remains challenging due to two fundamental issues: the sim-to-real gap introduces significant perception noise that degrades performance on fine-grained tasks, and training a unified policy…

The pursuit of humanoid athletic sprints is hindered by a scarcity of humanoid-viable kinematic reference data and the inability of existing frameworks to maintain stability during sprints. To overcome these limitations, we introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yantong Wei , Kaihong Huang , Hainan Pan , Jiawei Luo , Jiawei Zhou , Ziyan Mai , Zhiwen Zeng , Yaonan Wang , Huimin Lu

To dynamically traverse challenging terrain, legged robots need to continually perceive and reason about upcoming features, adjust the locations and timings of future footfalls and leverage momentum strategically. We present a pipeline that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Oliwier Melon , Romeo Orsolino , David Surovik , Mathieu Geisert , Ioannis Havoutis , Maurice Fallon

Learning human-like, robust bipedal walking remains difficult due to hybrid dynamics and terrain variability. We propose a lightweight framework that combines a gait generator network learned from human motion with Proximal Policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yusuf Baran Ates , Omer Morgul

Gait, i.e., the movement pattern of human limbs during locomotion, is a promising biometric for the identification of persons. Despite significant improvement in gait recognition with deep learning, existing studies still neglect a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Jinkai Zheng , Xinchen Liu , Chenggang Yan , Jiyong Zhang , Wu Liu , Xiaoping Zhang , Tao Mei

Current approaches to humanoid control generally fall into two paradigms: perceptive locomotion, which handles terrain well but is limited to pedal gaits, and general motion tracking, which reproduces complex skills but ignores…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ziwen Zhuang , Shaoting Zhu , Mengjie Zhao , Hang Zhao

Whole-body humanoid locomotion is challenging due to high-dimensional control, morphological instability, and the need for real-time adaptation to various terrains using onboard perception. Directly applying reinforcement learning (RL) with…

Humanoid and legged robots interact with the environment through intermittent contacts, making accurate motion estimation fundamentally dependent on reasoning about contact dynamics. However, standard sensing pipelines-whether based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jiarong Kang , Kunzhao Ren , Tao Pang , Xiaobin Xiong

Lower limb exoskeletons (LLEs) present the potential to make motor-impaired individuals walk again. Their application in real-world environments is still limited by the lack of effective adaptive gait planning. Indeed, current exoskeletons…

Humanoid parkour requires locomotion policies to coordinate whole-body dynamics across rapidly changing terrains such as stairs, gaps, slopes, and obstacles. Existing reinforcement learning policies are largely reactive, mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yanheng Mai , Wenhao Xu , Zirui Huang , Yifei Fu , Shengwei Dong , Xinjue Wang , Kailun Huang , Yanzhe Xie , Renjing Xu

Executing reliable Humanoid-Object Interaction (HOI) tasks for humanoid robots is hindered by the lack of generalized control interfaces and robust closed-loop perception mechanisms. In this work, we introduce Perceptive Root-guided…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuhang Lin , Jiyuan Shi , Dewei Wang , Jipeng Kong , Yong Liu , Chenjia Bai , Xuelong Li

Agile humanoid locomotion in complex 3D en- vironments requires balancing perceptual fidelity with com- putational efficiency, yet existing methods typically rely on rigid sensing configurations. We propose ADAPT (Adaptive dual-projection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Shuo Shao , Tianchen Huang , Wei Gao , Shiwu Zhang

Prior plays an important role in providing the plausible constraint on human motion. Previous works design motion priors following a variety of paradigms under different circumstances, leading to the lack of versatility. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jiachen Xu , Min Wang , Jingyu Gong , Wentao Liu , Chen Qian , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Humanoid robots hold great potential for diverse interactions and daily service tasks within human-centered environments, necessitating controllers that seamlessly integrate precise locomotion with dexterous manipulation. However, most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xinru Cui , Linxi Feng , Yixuan Zhou , Haoqi Han , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Recent advances in data-driven reinforcement learning and motion tracking have substantially improved humanoid locomotion, yet critical practical challenges remain. In particular, while low-level motion tracking and trajectory-following…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Chenxi Han , Yuheng Min , Zihao Huang , Ao Hong , Hang Liu , Yi Cheng , Houde Liu

Humanoid robots are designed to navigate environments accessible to humans using their legs. However, classical research has primarily focused on controlled laboratory settings, resulting in a gap in developing controllers for navigating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Wandong Sun , Long Chen , Yongbo Su , Baoshi Cao , Yang Liu , Zongwu Xie

Recent techniques on implicit geometry representation learning and neural rendering have shown promising results for 3D clothed human reconstruction from sparse video inputs. However, it is still challenging to reconstruct detailed surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Hao Wang , Qingshan Xu , Hongyuan Chen , Rui Ma

Humanoid locomotion is a challenging task due to its inherent complexity and high-dimensional dynamics, as well as the need to adapt to diverse and unpredictable environments. In this work, we introduce a novel learning framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Hyunyoung Jung , Zhaoyuan Gu , Ye Zhao , Hae-Won Park , Sehoon Ha

Gait phase estimation based on inertial measurement unit (IMU) signals facilitates precise adaptation of exoskeletons to individual gait variations. However, challenges remain in achieving high accuracy and robustness, particularly during…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yuanlong Ji , Xingbang Yang , Ruoqi Zhao , Qihan Ye , Quan Zheng , Yubo Fan