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We present RoMoCo, an open-source C++ toolbox for the synthesis and evaluation of reduced-order model-based planners and whole-body controllers for bipedal and humanoid robots. RoMoCo's modular architecture unifies state-of-the-art planners…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Min Dai , Aaron D. Ames

We explore the performance and portability of the novel Mojo language for scientific computing workloads on GPUs. As the first language based on the LLVM's Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) compiler infrastructure, Mojo aims to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-26 William F. Godoy , Tatiana Melnichenko , Pedro Valero-Lara , Wael Elwasif , Philip Fackler , Rafael Ferreira Da Silva , Keita Teranishi , Jeffrey S. Vetter

Simulation-based RL for contemporary robot control is increasingly organized around GPU-resident simulation: physics, rollout collection, and learning are placed on a single GPU-centric execution path. This paradigm has greatly improved…

In recent years, dual-arm manipulation has become an area of strong interest in robotics, with end-to-end learning emerging as the predominant strategy for solving bimanual tasks. A critical limitation of such learning-based approaches,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Iryna Hurova , Alinjar Dan , Karl Kruusamäe , Arun Kumar Singh

This paper presents three open-source reinforcement learning environments developed on the MuJoCo physics engine with the Franka Emika Panda arm in MuJoCo Menagerie. Three representative tasks, push, slide, and pick-and-place, are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zichun Xu , Yuntao Li , Xiaohang Yang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Lei Zhuang , Jingdong Zhao

The dm_control software package is a collection of Python libraries and task suites for reinforcement learning agents in an articulated-body simulation. A MuJoCo wrapper provides convenient bindings to functions and data structures. The…

We demonstrate the surprising real-world effectiveness of a very simple approach to whole-body model-predictive control (MPC) of quadruped and humanoid robots: the iterative LQR (iLQR) algorithm with MuJoCo dynamics and finite-difference…

We present Simion Zoo, a Reinforcement Learning (RL) workbench that provides a complete set of tools to design, run, and analyze the results,both statistically and visually, of RL control applications. The main features that set apart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Borja Fernandez-Gauna , Manuel Graña , Roland S. Zimmermann

Mimicking the graceful motion of swimming animals remains a core challenge in soft robotics due to the complexity of fluid-structure interaction and the difficulty of controlling soft, biomimetic bodies. Existing modeling approaches are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Mike Y. Michelis , Nana Obayashi , Josie Hughes , Robert K. Katzschmann

Current vision-language models have been explored for multi-modal embedding tasks like information retrieval. However, they face significant challenges in real-world queries and targets involving diverse modality combinations, as existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jiajun Qin , Yuan Pu , Zhuolun He , Seunggeun Kim , David Z. Pan , Bei Yu

Reinforcement learning (RL) has enabled advances in humanoid robot locomotion, yet most learning frameworks do not account for mechanical intelligence embedded in parallel actuation mechanisms due to limitations in simulator support for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yusuke Tanaka , Alvin Zhu , Quanyou Wang , Yeting Liu , Dennis Hong

Unifying multiple multi-modal visual object tracking (MMVOT) tasks draws increasing attention due to the complementary nature of different modalities in building robust tracking systems. Existing practices mix all data sensor types in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Xuefeng Zhu , Chunyang Cheng , Tao Zhou , Xiaojun Wu , Josef Kittler

Deploying learning-based controllers across heterogeneous robots is challenging due to platform differences, inconsistent interfaces, and inefficient middleware. To address these issues, we present UniCon, a lightweight framework that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yunfeng Lin , Li Xu , Yong Yu , Jiangmiao Pang , Weinan Zhang

Navigating rugged landscapes poses significant challenges for legged locomotion. Multi-legged robots (those with 6 and greater) offer a promising solution for such terrains, largely due to their inherent high static stability, resulting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Juntao He , Baxi Chong , Zhaochen Xu , Sehoon Ha , Daniel I. Goldman

We present Dojo, a differentiable physics engine for robotics that prioritizes stable simulation, accurate contact physics, and differentiability with respect to states, actions, and system parameters. Dojo models hard contact and friction…

Imitation Learning (IL) holds great promise for enabling agile locomotion in embodied agents. However, many existing locomotion benchmarks primarily focus on simplified toy tasks, often failing to capture the complexity of real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Firas Al-Hafez , Guoping Zhao , Jan Peters , Davide Tateo

Aiming to mimic the brachiation locomotion of primates, we establish a brachiation robot model capable of swinging between different bars. The robot's design is based on a four-link underactuated structure. We propose an offline trajectory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Zishang Ji , Xuanyu Zhang , Xuanzhe Wang , Yan Huang

Robust reinforcement learning is the problem of learning control policies that provide optimal worst-case performance against a span of adversarial environments. It is a crucial ingredient for deploying algorithms in real-world scenarios…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Adil Zouitine , David Bertoin , Pierre Clavier , Matthieu Geist , Emmanuel Rachelson

As the need for more computing power grows, traditional methods are hitting limits. To boost performance, we're expanding Central Processing Unit (CPU) capabilities and using specialized hardware accelerators. For example, mobile devices…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hassan Nassar , Rafik Youssef , Lars Bauer , Jörg Henkel

Shared L1 memory clusters are a common architectural pattern (e.g., in GPGPUs) for building efficient and flexible multi-processing-element (PE) engines. However, it is a common belief that these tightly-coupled clusters would not scale…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Samuel Riedel , Matheus Cavalcante , Renzo Andri , Luca Benini