A study on quadruped mobile robots

H Taheri, N Mozayani - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, quadruped mobile robots' development had experienced rapid progress,
which has subsequently increased their usage in many human-assisted applications …

[HTML][HTML] A review of high-throughput field phenoty** systems: focusing on ground robots

R Xu, C Li - Plant phenomics, 2022 - spj.science.org
Manual assessments of plant phenotypes in the field can be labor-intensive and inefficient.
The high-throughput field phenoty** systems and in particular robotic systems play an …

Learning quadrupedal locomotion on deformable terrain

S Choi, G Ji, J Park, H Kim, J Mun, JH Lee… - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
Simulation-based reinforcement learning approaches are leading the next innovations in
legged robot control. However, the resulting control policies are still not applicable on soft …

Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning

GB Margolis, G Yang, K Paigwar… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Agile maneuvers such as sprinting and high-speed turning in the wild are challenging for
legged robots. We present an end-to-end learned controller that achieves record agility for …

Scientific exploration of challenging planetary analog environments with a team of legged robots

P Arm, G Waibel, J Preisig, T Tuna, R Zhou, V Bickel… - Science robotics, 2023 - science.org
The interest in exploring planetary bodies for scientific investigation and in situ resource
utilization is ever-rising. Yet, many sites of interest are inaccessible to state-of-the-art …

Learning robust perceptive locomotion for quadrupedal robots in the wild

T Miki, J Lee, J Hwangbo, L Wellhausen, V Koltun… - Science robotics, 2022 - science.org
Legged robots that can operate autonomously in remote and hazardous environments will
greatly increase opportunities for exploration into underexplored areas. Exteroceptive …

Concurrent training of a control policy and a state estimator for dynamic and robust legged locomotion

G Ji, J Mun, H Kim, J Hwangbo - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we propose a locomotion training framework where a control policy and a state
estimator are trained concurrently. The framework consists of a policy network which outputs …

Dreamwaq: Learning robust quadrupedal locomotion with implicit terrain imagination via deep reinforcement learning

IMA Nahrendra, B Yu, H Myung - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quadrupedal robots resemble the physical ability of legged animals to walk through
unstructured terrains. However, designing a controller for quadrupedal robots poses a …

Electrohydraulic musculoskeletal robotic leg for agile, adaptive, yet energy-efficient locomotion

TJK Buchner, T Fukushima, A Kazemipour… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Robotic locomotion in unstructured terrain demands an agile, adaptive, and energy-efficient
architecture. To traverse such terrains, legged robots use rigid electromagnetic motors and …

A walk in the park: Learning to walk in 20 minutes with model-free reinforcement learning

L Smith, I Kostrikov, S Levine - arxiv preprint arxiv:2208.07860, 2022 - arxiv.org
Deep reinforcement learning is a promising approach to learning policies in uncontrolled
environments that do not require domain knowledge. Unfortunately, due to sample …