Natural Humanoid Robot Locomotion with Generative Motion Prior

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Hauptverfasser: Zhang, Haodong, Zhang, Liang, Chen, Zhenghan, Chen, Lu, Wang, Yue, Xiong, Rong
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author Zhang, Haodong
Zhang, Liang
Chen, Zhenghan
Chen, Lu
Wang, Yue
Xiong, Rong
author_facet Zhang, Haodong
Zhang, Liang
Chen, Zhenghan
Chen, Lu
Wang, Yue
Xiong, Rong
contents Natural and lifelike locomotion remains a fundamental challenge for humanoid robots to interact with human society. However, previous methods either neglect motion naturalness or rely on unstable and ambiguous style rewards. In this paper, we propose a novel Generative Motion Prior (GMP) that provides fine-grained motion-level supervision for the task of natural humanoid robot locomotion. To leverage natural human motions, we first employ whole-body motion retargeting to effectively transfer them to the robot. Subsequently, we train a generative model offline to predict future natural reference motions for the robot based on a conditional variational auto-encoder. During policy training, the generative motion prior serves as a frozen online motion generator, delivering precise and comprehensive supervision at the trajectory level, including joint angles and keypoint positions. The generative motion prior significantly enhances training stability and improves interpretability by offering detailed and dense guidance throughout the learning process. Experimental results in both simulation and real-world environments demonstrate that our method achieves superior motion naturalness compared to existing approaches. Project page can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/humanoid-gmp
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spellingShingle Natural Humanoid Robot Locomotion with Generative Motion Prior
Zhang, Haodong
Zhang, Liang
Chen, Zhenghan
Chen, Lu
Wang, Yue
Xiong, Rong
Robotics
Machine Learning
Natural and lifelike locomotion remains a fundamental challenge for humanoid robots to interact with human society. However, previous methods either neglect motion naturalness or rely on unstable and ambiguous style rewards. In this paper, we propose a novel Generative Motion Prior (GMP) that provides fine-grained motion-level supervision for the task of natural humanoid robot locomotion. To leverage natural human motions, we first employ whole-body motion retargeting to effectively transfer them to the robot. Subsequently, we train a generative model offline to predict future natural reference motions for the robot based on a conditional variational auto-encoder. During policy training, the generative motion prior serves as a frozen online motion generator, delivering precise and comprehensive supervision at the trajectory level, including joint angles and keypoint positions. The generative motion prior significantly enhances training stability and improves interpretability by offering detailed and dense guidance throughout the learning process. Experimental results in both simulation and real-world environments demonstrate that our method achieves superior motion naturalness compared to existing approaches. Project page can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/humanoid-gmp
title Natural Humanoid Robot Locomotion with Generative Motion Prior
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09015