Contact-conditioned learning of multi-gait locomotion policies

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Auteurs principaux: Ciebielski, Michal, Burgio, Federico, Khadiv, Majid
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author Ciebielski, Michal
Burgio, Federico
Khadiv, Majid
author_facet Ciebielski, Michal
Burgio, Federico
Khadiv, Majid
contents In this paper, we examine the effects of goal representation on the performance and generalization in multi-gait policy learning settings for legged robots. To study this problem in isolation, we cast the policy learning problem as imitating model predictive controllers that can generate multiple gaits. We hypothesize that conditioning a learned policy on future contact switches is a suitable goal representation for learning a single policy that can generate a variety of gaits. Our rationale is that policies conditioned on contact information can leverage the shared structure between different gaits. Our extensive simulation results demonstrate the validity of our hypothesis for learning multiple gaits on a bipedal and a quadrupedal robot. Most interestingly, our results show that contact-conditioned policies generalize much better than other common goal representations in the literature, when the robot is tested outside the distribution of the training data.
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spellingShingle Contact-conditioned learning of multi-gait locomotion policies
Ciebielski, Michal
Burgio, Federico
Khadiv, Majid
Robotics
In this paper, we examine the effects of goal representation on the performance and generalization in multi-gait policy learning settings for legged robots. To study this problem in isolation, we cast the policy learning problem as imitating model predictive controllers that can generate multiple gaits. We hypothesize that conditioning a learned policy on future contact switches is a suitable goal representation for learning a single policy that can generate a variety of gaits. Our rationale is that policies conditioned on contact information can leverage the shared structure between different gaits. Our extensive simulation results demonstrate the validity of our hypothesis for learning multiple gaits on a bipedal and a quadrupedal robot. Most interestingly, our results show that contact-conditioned policies generalize much better than other common goal representations in the literature, when the robot is tested outside the distribution of the training data.
title Contact-conditioned learning of multi-gait locomotion policies
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00776