A survey of optimization-based task and motion planning: From classical to learning approaches

Z Zhao, S Cheng, Y Ding, Z Zhou… - IEEE/ASME …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Task and motion planning (TAMP) integrates high-level task planning and low-level motion
planning to equip robots with the autonomy to effectively reason over long-horizon, dynamic …

Humanoid Locomotion and Manipulation: Current Progress and Challenges in Control, Planning, and Learning

Z Gu, J Li, W Shen, W Yu, Z **e, S McCrory… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Humanoid robots have great potential to perform various human-level skills. These skills
involve locomotion, manipulation, and cognitive capabilities. Driven by advances in machine …

Body transformer: Leveraging robot embodiment for policy learning

C Sferrazza, DM Huang, F Liu, J Lee… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In recent years, the transformer architecture has become the de facto standard for machine
learning algorithms applied to natural language processing and computer vision. Despite …

Bigym: A demo-driven mobile bi-manual manipulation benchmark

N Chernyadev, N Backshall, X Ma, Y Lu, Y Seo… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We introduce BiGym, a new benchmark and learning environment for mobile bi-manual
demo-driven robotic manipulation. BiGym features 40 diverse tasks set in home …

Smplolympics: Sports environments for physically simulated humanoids

Z Luo, J Wang, K Liu, H Zhang, C Tessler… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present SMPLOlympics, a collection of physically simulated environments that allow
humanoids to compete in a variety of Olympic sports. Sports simulation offers a rich and …

Opt2skill: Imitating dynamically-feasible whole-body trajectories for versatile humanoid loco-manipulation

F Liu, Z Gu, Y Cai, Z Zhou, S Zhao, H Jung… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Humanoid robots are designed to perform diverse loco-manipulation tasks. However, they
face challenges due to their high-dimensional and unstable dynamics, as well as the …

Mimicking-bench: A benchmark for generalizable humanoid-scene interaction learning via human mimicking

Y Liu, B Yang, L Zhong, H Wang, L Yi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.17730, 2024 - arxiv.org
Learning generic skills for humanoid robots interacting with 3D scenes by mimicking human
data is a key research challenge with significant implications for robotics and real-world …

Reinforcement Learning with Action Sequence for Data-Efficient Robot Learning

Y Seo, P Abbeel - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.12155, 2024 - arxiv.org
Training reinforcement learning (RL) agents on robotic tasks typically requires a large
number of training samples. This is because training data often consists of noisy trajectories …

[PDF][PDF] Humanvla: Towards vision-language directed object rearrangement by physical humanoid

X Xu, Y Zhang, YL Li, L Han, C Lu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.19972, 2024 - arxiv.org
Physical Human-Scene Interaction (HSI) plays a crucial role in numerous applications.
However, existing HSI techniques are limited to specific object dynamics and privileged …

SimBa: Simplicity Bias for Scaling Up Parameters in Deep Reinforcement Learning

H Lee, D Hwang, D Kim, H Kim, JJ Tai… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in CV and NLP have been largely driven by scaling up the number of
network parameters, despite traditional theories suggesting that larger networks are prone to …