Anymal parkour: Learning agile navigation for quadrupedal robots

D Hoeller, N Rudin, D Sako, M Hutter - Science Robotics, 2024‏ - science.org
Performing agile navigation with four-legged robots is a challenging task because of the
highly dynamic motions, contacts with various parts of the robot, and the limited field of view …

Extreme parkour with legged robots

X Cheng, K Shi, A Agarwal… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Humans can perform parkour by traversing obstacles in a highly dynamic fashion requiring
precise eye-muscle coordination and movement. Getting robots to do the same task requires …

Legged locomotion in challenging terrains using egocentric vision

A Agarwal, A Kumar, J Malik… - Conference on robot …, 2023‏ - proceedings.mlr.press
Animals are capable of precise and agile locomotion using vision. Replicating this ability
has been a long-standing goal in robotics. The traditional approach has been to decompose …

Fast traversability estimation for wild visual navigation

J Frey, M Mattamala, N Chebrolu, C Cadena… - ar** for locomotion and navigation using gpu
T Miki, L Wellhausen, R Grandia… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Perceiving the surrounding environment is crucial for autonomous mobile robots. An
elevation map provides a memory-efficient and simple yet powerful geometric represen …

Coupling vision and proprioception for navigation of legged robots

Z Fu, A Kumar, A Agarwal, H Qi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - openaccess.thecvf.com
We exploit the complementary strengths of vision and proprioception to develop a point-goal
navigation system for legged robots, called VP-Nav. Legged systems are capable of …