Saving the Limping: Fault-tolerant Quadruped Locomotion via Reinforcement Learning

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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Dikai, Zhang, Tianwei, Yin, Jianxiong, See, Simon
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Veröffentlicht: 2022
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author Liu, Dikai
Zhang, Tianwei
Yin, Jianxiong
See, Simon
author_facet Liu, Dikai
Zhang, Tianwei
Yin, Jianxiong
See, Simon
contents Modern quadrupeds are skillful in traversing or even sprinting on uneven terrains in a remote uncontrolled environment. However, survival in the wild requires not only maneuverability, but also the ability to handle potential critical hardware failures. How to grant such ability to quadrupeds is rarely investigated. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology to train and test hardware fault-tolerant controllers for quadruped locomotion, both in the simulation and physical world. We adopt the teacher-student reinforcement learning framework to train the controller with close-to-reality joint-locking failure in the simulation, which can be zero-shot transferred to the physical robot without any fine-tuning. Extensive experiments show that our fault-tolerant controller can efficiently lead a quadruped stably when it faces joint failures during locomotion.
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spellingShingle Saving the Limping: Fault-tolerant Quadruped Locomotion via Reinforcement Learning
Liu, Dikai
Zhang, Tianwei
Yin, Jianxiong
See, Simon
Robotics
Modern quadrupeds are skillful in traversing or even sprinting on uneven terrains in a remote uncontrolled environment. However, survival in the wild requires not only maneuverability, but also the ability to handle potential critical hardware failures. How to grant such ability to quadrupeds is rarely investigated. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology to train and test hardware fault-tolerant controllers for quadruped locomotion, both in the simulation and physical world. We adopt the teacher-student reinforcement learning framework to train the controller with close-to-reality joint-locking failure in the simulation, which can be zero-shot transferred to the physical robot without any fine-tuning. Extensive experiments show that our fault-tolerant controller can efficiently lead a quadruped stably when it faces joint failures during locomotion.
title Saving the Limping: Fault-tolerant Quadruped Locomotion via Reinforcement Learning
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00474