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Main Authors: Yang, Yuxiang, Shi, Guanya, Lin, Changyi, Meng, Xiangyun, Scalise, Rosario, Castro, Mateo Guaman, Yu, Wenhao, Zhang, Tingnan, Zhao, Ding, Tan, Jie, Boots, Byron
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10923
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author Yang, Yuxiang
Shi, Guanya
Lin, Changyi
Meng, Xiangyun
Scalise, Rosario
Castro, Mateo Guaman
Yu, Wenhao
Zhang, Tingnan
Zhao, Ding
Tan, Jie
Boots, Byron
author_facet Yang, Yuxiang
Shi, Guanya
Lin, Changyi
Meng, Xiangyun
Scalise, Rosario
Castro, Mateo Guaman
Yu, Wenhao
Zhang, Tingnan
Zhao, Ding
Tan, Jie
Boots, Byron
contents We focus on agile, continuous, and terrain-adaptive jumping of quadrupedal robots in discontinuous terrains such as stairs and stepping stones. Unlike single-step jumping, continuous jumping requires accurately executing highly dynamic motions over long horizons, which is challenging for existing approaches. To accomplish this task, we design a hierarchical learning and control framework, which consists of a learned heightmap predictor for robust terrain perception, a reinforcement-learning-based centroidal-level motion policy for versatile and terrain-adaptive planning, and a low-level model-based leg controller for accurate motion tracking. In addition, we minimize the sim-to-real gap by accurately modeling the hardware characteristics. Our framework enables a Unitree Go1 robot to perform agile and continuous jumps on human-sized stairs and sparse stepping stones, for the first time to the best of our knowledge. In particular, the robot can cross two stair steps in each jump and completes a 3.5m long, 2.8m high, 14-step staircase in 4.5 seconds. Moreover, the same policy outperforms baselines in various other parkour tasks, such as jumping over single horizontal or vertical discontinuities. Experiment videos can be found at https://yxyang.github.io/jumping_cod/
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spellingShingle Agile Continuous Jumping in Discontinuous Terrains
Yang, Yuxiang
Shi, Guanya
Lin, Changyi
Meng, Xiangyun
Scalise, Rosario
Castro, Mateo Guaman
Yu, Wenhao
Zhang, Tingnan
Zhao, Ding
Tan, Jie
Boots, Byron
Robotics
We focus on agile, continuous, and terrain-adaptive jumping of quadrupedal robots in discontinuous terrains such as stairs and stepping stones. Unlike single-step jumping, continuous jumping requires accurately executing highly dynamic motions over long horizons, which is challenging for existing approaches. To accomplish this task, we design a hierarchical learning and control framework, which consists of a learned heightmap predictor for robust terrain perception, a reinforcement-learning-based centroidal-level motion policy for versatile and terrain-adaptive planning, and a low-level model-based leg controller for accurate motion tracking. In addition, we minimize the sim-to-real gap by accurately modeling the hardware characteristics. Our framework enables a Unitree Go1 robot to perform agile and continuous jumps on human-sized stairs and sparse stepping stones, for the first time to the best of our knowledge. In particular, the robot can cross two stair steps in each jump and completes a 3.5m long, 2.8m high, 14-step staircase in 4.5 seconds. Moreover, the same policy outperforms baselines in various other parkour tasks, such as jumping over single horizontal or vertical discontinuities. Experiment videos can be found at https://yxyang.github.io/jumping_cod/
title Agile Continuous Jumping in Discontinuous Terrains
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10923