Gaitor: Learning a Unified Representation Across Gaits for Real-World Quadruped Locomotion

AL Mitchell, W Merkt, A Papatheodorou… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The current state-of-the-art in quadruped locomotion is able to produce robust motion for
terrain traversal but requires the segmentation of a desired robot trajectory into a discrete set …

Oscillating latent dynamics in robot systems during walking and reaching

O Parker Jones, AL Mitchell, J Yamada, W Merkt… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Sensorimotor control of complex, dynamic systems such as humanoids or quadrupedal
robots is notoriously difficult. While artificial systems traditionally employ hierarchical …

Agile and versatile robot locomotion via kernel-based residual learning

M Carroll, Z Liu, M Kasaei, Z Li - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work developed a kernel-based residual learning framework for quadrupedal robotic
locomotion. Ini-tially, a kernel neural network is trained with data collected from an MPC …

Hierarchical Frameworks for Reinforcement Learning-based Robust and Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion

GA Castillo Martinez - 2024 - rave.ohiolink.edu
This dissertation addresses the integration of reinforcement learning (RL) with model-based
methods to develop robust and efficient bipedal locomotion strategies for robots, highlighting …

Gaitor: Learning a Unified Representation for Continuous Gait Transition and Terrain Traversal for Quadruped Robots

AL Mitchell, W Merkt, A Papatheodorou, I Havoutis… - openreview.net
The current state-of-the-art in quadruped locomotion is able to produce robust motion for
terrain traversal but requires the segmentation of a desired trajectory into a discrete set of …

[PDF][PDF] From Primates to Robots: Emerging Oscillatory Latent-Space Dynamics for Sensorimotor Control

AL Mitchell, OP Jones, J Yamada, W Merkt, I Havoutis… - wolfgangmerkt.com
Oscillatory signals drive reaching and locomotion for both robots and primates. Recent
results in neuroscience have shown that periodic signals are present in the motor cortex of …