Asymptotically optimal sampling-based motion planning methods

JD Gammell, MP Strub - Annual Review of Control, Robotics …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Motion planning is a fundamental problem in autonomous robotics that requires finding a
path to a specified goal that avoids obstacles and takes into account a robot's limitations and …

Sim-to-real learning for bipedal locomotion under unsensed dynamic loads

J Dao, K Green, H Duan, A Fern… - … Conference on Robotics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent work on sim-to-real learning for bipedal locomotion has demonstrated new levels of
robustness and agility over a variety of terrains. However, that work, and most prior bipedal …

Humanoid loco-manipulations using combined fast dense 3d tracking and slam with wide-angle depth-images

K Chappellet, M Murooka, G Caron… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To efficiently achieve complex humanoid loco-manipulation tasks in industrial contexts, we
propose a combined vision-based tracker-localization interplay integrated as part of a task …

Humanoid loco-manipulation planning based on graph search and reachability maps

M Murooka, I Kumagai, M Morisawa… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we propose an efficient and highly versatile loco-manipulation planning for
humanoid robots. Loco-manipulation planning is a key technological brick enabling …

Deep Imitation Learning for Humanoid Loco-manipulation through Human Teleoperation

M Seo, S Han, K Sim, SH Bang… - 2023 IEEE-RAS …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We tackle the problem of developing humanoid loco-manipulation skills with deep imitation
learning. The difficulty of collecting task demonstrations and training policies for humanoids …

Sim-to-Real Learning for Humanoid Box Loco-Manipulation

J Dao, H Duan, A Fern - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.03191, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this work we propose a learning-based approach to box loco-manipulation for a
humanoid robot. This is a particularly challenging problem due to the need for whole-body …

Finding locomanipulation plans quickly in the locomotion constrained manifold

SJ Jorgensen, M Vedantam, R Gupta… - … on Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a method that finds locomanipulation plans that perform simultaneous
locomotion and manipulation of objects for a desired end-effector trajectory. Key to our …

Escaping local minima in search-based planning using soft duplicate detection

W Du, SK Kim, O Salzman… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Search-based planning for relatively low-dimensional motion-planning problems such as for
autonomous navigation and autonomous flight has been shown to be very successful. Such …

A hybrid primitive-based navigation planner for the wheeled-legged robot CENTAURO

A De Luca, L Muratore… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wheeled-legged robots have the potential to navigate in cluttered and irregular scenarios by
altering the locomotion modes to adapt to the terrain challenges and effectively reach …

Affordance-based multi-contact whole-body pose sequence planning for humanoid robots in unknown environments

P Kaiser, C Mandery, A Boltres… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite impressive advances of humanoid robotics, the autonomous planning of whole-
body loco-manipulation actions in unknown environments is still an open problem. In our …