CooHOI: Learning Cooperative Human-Object Interaction with Manipulated Object Dynamics

J Gao, Z Wang, Z **ao, J Wang… - Advances in …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Enabling humanoid robots to clean rooms has long been a pursued dream within humanoid
research communities. However, many tasks require multi-humanoid collaboration, such as …

Hover: Versatile neural whole-body controller for humanoid robots

T He, W **ao, T Lin, Z Luo, Z Xu, Z Jiang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Humanoid whole-body control requires adapting to diverse tasks such as navigation, loco-
manipulation, and tabletop manipulation, each demanding a different mode of control. For …

[PDF][PDF] Actor-Critic Model Predictive Control: Differentiable Optimization meets Reinforcement Learning

A Romero, E Aljalbout, Y Song… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - researchgate.net
An open research question in robotics is how to combine the benefits of model-free
reinforcement learning (RL)—known for its strong task performance and flexibility in …

MuJoCo Playground

K Zakka, B Tabanpour, Q Liao, M Haiderbhai… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
We introduce MuJoCo Playground, a fully open-source framework for robot learning built
with MJX, with the express goal of streamlining simulation, training, and sim-to-real transfer …

Bridging Adaptivity and Safety: Learning Agile Collision-Free Locomotion Across Varied Physics

Y Zhong, C Zhang, T He, G Shi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.04276, 2025 - arxiv.org
Real-world legged locomotion systems often need to reconcile agility and safety for different
scenarios. Moreover, the underlying dynamics are often unknown and time-variant (eg …

Generative Predictive Control: Flow Matching Policies for Dynamic and Difficult-to-Demonstrate Tasks

V Kurtz, JW Burdick - arxiv preprint arxiv:2502.13406, 2025 - arxiv.org
Generative control policies have recently unlocked major progress in robotics. These
methods produce action sequences via diffusion or flow matching, with training data …

Infinite-Horizon Value Function Approximation for Model Predictive Control

A Jordana, S Kleff, A Haffemayer, J Ortiz-Haro… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Model Predictive Control has emerged as a popular tool for robots to generate complex
motions. However, the real-time requirement has limited the use of hard constraints and …

Equality Constrained Diffusion for Direct Trajectory Optimization

V Kurtz, JW Burdick - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.01939, 2024 - arxiv.org
The recent success of diffusion-based generative models in image and natural language
processing has ignited interest in diffusion-based trajectory optimization for nonlinear control …

Learning Getting-Up Policies for Real-World Humanoid Robots

X He, R Dong, Z Chen, S Gupta - arxiv preprint arxiv:2502.12152, 2025 - arxiv.org
Automatic fall recovery is a crucial prerequisite before humanoid robots can be reliably
deployed. Hand-designing controllers for getting up is difficult because of the varied …

Towards Local Minima-free Robotic Navigation: Model Predictive Path Integral Control via Repulsive Potential Augmentation

T Fuke, M Endo, K Honda… - 2025 IEEE/SICE …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Model-based control is a crucial component of robotic navigation. However, it often struggles
with entrapment in local minima due to its inherent nature as a finite, myopic optimization …