Learning-based legged locomotion: State of the art and future perspectives

S Ha, J Lee, M van de Panne, Z ** control through reinforcement learning
Z Li, XB Peng, P Abbeel, S Levine, G Berseth… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
This work aims to push the limits of agility for bipedal robots by enabling a torque-controlled
bipedal robot to perform robust and versatile dynamic jumps in the real world. We present a …

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 …

Slomo: A general system for legged robot motion imitation from casual videos

JZ Zhang, S Yang, G Yang, AL Bishop… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present SLoMo: a first-of-its-kind framework for transferring skilled motions from casually
captured “in-the-wild” video footage of humans and animals to legged robots. SLoMo works …

Risk-averse trajectory optimization via sample average approximation

T Lew, R Bonalli, M Pavone - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Trajectory optimization under uncertainty underpins a wide range of applications in robotics.
However, existing methods are limited in terms of reasoning about sources of epistemic and …

Integrated task and motion planning for safe legged navigation in partially observable environments

A Shamsah, Z Gu, J Warnke… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study proposes a hierarchically integrated framework for safe task and motion planning
(TAMP) of bipedal locomotion in a partially observable environment with dynamic obstacles …

Model-free reinforcement learning for robust locomotion using demonstrations from trajectory optimization

M Bogdanovic, M Khadiv, L Righetti - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
We present a general, two-stage reinforcement learning approach to create robust policies
that can be deployed on real robots without any additional training using a single …

Fall prediction, control, and recovery of quadruped robots

H Sun, J Yang, Y Jia, C Zhang, X Yu, C Wang - ISA transactions, 2024‏ - Elsevier
When legged robots perform complex tasks in unstructured environments, falls are
inevitable due to unknown external disturbances. However, current research mainly focuses …

Robust pivoting manipulation using contact implicit bilevel optimization

Y Shirai, DK Jha… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Generalizable manipulation requires that robots be able to interact with novel objects and
environment. This requirement makes manipulation extremely challenging as a robot has to …