iWalker: Imperative Visual Planning for Walking Humanoid Robot

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Autores principales: Lin, Xiao, Huang, Yuhao, Fu, Taimeng, Xiong, Xiaobin, Wang, Chen
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Publicado: 2024
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author Lin, Xiao
Huang, Yuhao
Fu, Taimeng
Xiong, Xiaobin
Wang, Chen
author_facet Lin, Xiao
Huang, Yuhao
Fu, Taimeng
Xiong, Xiaobin
Wang, Chen
contents Humanoid robots, designed to operate in human-centric environments, serve as a fundamental platform for a broad range of tasks. Although humanoid robots have been extensively studied for decades, a majority of existing humanoid robots still heavily rely on complex modular frameworks, leading to inflexibility and potential compounded errors from independent sensing, planning, and acting components. In response, we propose an end-to-end humanoid sense-plan-act walking system, enabling vision-based obstacle avoidance and footstep planning for whole body balancing simultaneously. We designed two imperative learning (IL)-based bilevel optimizations for model-predictive step planning and whole body balancing, respectively, to achieve self-supervised learning for humanoid robot walking. This enables the robot to learn from arbitrary unlabeled data, improving its adaptability and generalization capabilities. We refer to our method as iWalker and demonstrate its effectiveness in both simulated and real-world environments, representing a significant advancement toward autonomous humanoid robots.
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spellingShingle iWalker: Imperative Visual Planning for Walking Humanoid Robot
Lin, Xiao
Huang, Yuhao
Fu, Taimeng
Xiong, Xiaobin
Wang, Chen
Robotics
Systems and Control
Humanoid robots, designed to operate in human-centric environments, serve as a fundamental platform for a broad range of tasks. Although humanoid robots have been extensively studied for decades, a majority of existing humanoid robots still heavily rely on complex modular frameworks, leading to inflexibility and potential compounded errors from independent sensing, planning, and acting components. In response, we propose an end-to-end humanoid sense-plan-act walking system, enabling vision-based obstacle avoidance and footstep planning for whole body balancing simultaneously. We designed two imperative learning (IL)-based bilevel optimizations for model-predictive step planning and whole body balancing, respectively, to achieve self-supervised learning for humanoid robot walking. This enables the robot to learn from arbitrary unlabeled data, improving its adaptability and generalization capabilities. We refer to our method as iWalker and demonstrate its effectiveness in both simulated and real-world environments, representing a significant advancement toward autonomous humanoid robots.
title iWalker: Imperative Visual Planning for Walking Humanoid Robot
topic Robotics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18361