A review of quadruped robots: structure, control, and autonomous motion

Y Fan, Z Pei, C Wang, M Li, Z Tang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
With their unique point‐contact ability with the ground and exceptional adaptability to
complex terrains, quadruped robots have become a focal point in the fields of automation …

Test-time training with masked autoencoders

Y Gandelsman, Y Sun, X Chen… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Test-time training adapts to a new test distribution on the fly by optimizing a model for each
test input using self-supervision. In this paper, we use masked autoencoders for this one …

Learning to (learn at test time): Rnns with expressive hidden states

Y Sun, X Li, K Dalal, J Xu, A Vikram, G Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Self-attention performs well in long context but has quadratic complexity. Existing RNN
layers have linear complexity, but their performance in long context is limited by the …

Neural volumetric memory for visual locomotion control

R Yang, G Yang, X Wang - … of the IEEE/CVF conference on …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Legged robots have the potential to expand the reach of autonomy beyond paved roads. In
this work, we consider the difficult problem of locomotion on challenging terrains using a …

Learning vision-guided quadrupedal locomotion end-to-end with cross-modal transformers

R Yang, M Zhang, N Hansen, H Xu, X Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We propose to address quadrupedal locomotion tasks using Reinforcement Learning (RL)
with a Transformer-based model that learns to combine proprioceptive information and high …

Efficient sim-to-real transfer of contact-rich manipulation skills with online admittance residual learning

X Zhang, C Wang, L Sun, Z Wu… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Learning contact-rich manipulation skills is essential. Such skills require the robots to
interact with the environment with feasible manipulation trajectories and suitable compliance …

Adaptive CLF-MPC with application to quadrupedal robots

MV Minniti, R Grandia, F Farshidian… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern robotic systems are endowed with superior mobility and mechanical skills that make
them suited to be employed in real-world scenarios, where interactions with heavy objects …

Bayesian multi-task learning mpc for robotic mobile manipulation

E Arcari, MV Minniti, A Scampicchio… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile manipulation in robotics is challenging due to the need to solve many diverse tasks,
such as opening a door or picking-and-placing an object. Typically, a basic first-principles …

Adaptive force-based control of dynamic legged locomotion over uneven terrain

M Sombolestan, Q Nguyen - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Agile-legged robots have proven to be highly effective in navigating and performing tasks in
complex and challenging environments, including disaster zones and industrial settings …

Running birds reveal secrets for legged robot design

J Rubenson, GS Sawicki - Science Robotics, 2022 - science.org
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