Legged Robot
Legged robots aim to create machines capable of robust and agile locomotion across diverse terrains, mimicking the adaptability of animals. Current research heavily focuses on improving state estimation (often using Kalman filters or invariant Kalman filtering), developing robust control policies through reinforcement learning (RL) and model predictive control (MPC), and integrating vision and language models for enhanced perception and task understanding. These advancements are driving progress in applications ranging from industrial inspection to search and rescue, highlighting the potential for legged robots to operate effectively in unstructured and challenging environments.
Papers
RPC: A Modular Framework for Robot Planning, Control, and Deployment
Seung Hyeon Bang, Carlos Gonzalez, Gabriel Moore, Dong Ho Kang, Mingyo Seo, Luis Sentis
Robots with Attitude: Singularity-Free Quaternion-Based Model-Predictive Control for Agile Legged Robots
Zixin Zhang, John Z. Zhang, Shuo Yang, Zachary Manchester
One Policy to Run Them All: an End-to-end Learning Approach to Multi-Embodiment Locomotion
Nico Bohlinger, Grzegorz Czechmanowski, Maciej Krupka, Piotr Kicki, Krzysztof Walas, Jan Peters, Davide Tateo
Gait Switching and Enhanced Stabilization of Walking Robots with Deep Learning-based Reachability: A Case Study on Two-link Walker
Xingpeng Xia, Jason J. Choi, Ayush Agrawal, Koushil Sreenath, Claire J. Tomlin, Somil Bansal
Remote telepresence over large distances via robot avatars: case studies
Mohamed Elobaid, Stefano Dafarra, Ehsan Ranjbari, Giulio Romualdi, Tomohiro Chaki, Tomohiro Kawakami, Takahide Yoshiike, Daniele Pucci
Adaptive Non-linear Centroidal MPC with Stability Guarantees for Robust Locomotion of Legged Robots
Mohamed Elobaid, Giulio Turrisi, Lorenzo Rapetti, Giulio Romualdi, Stefano Dafarra, Tomohiro Kawakami, Tomohiro Chaki, Takahide Yoshiike, Claudio Semini, Daniele Pucci