Adversarial Locomotion and Motion Imitation for Humanoid Policy Learning

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Main Authors: Shi, Jiyuan, Liu, Xinzhe, Wang, Dewei, Lu, Ouyang, Schwertfeger, Sören, Zhang, Chi, Sun, Fuchun, Bai, Chenjia, Li, Xuelong
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author Shi, Jiyuan
Liu, Xinzhe
Wang, Dewei
Lu, Ouyang
Schwertfeger, Sören
Zhang, Chi
Sun, Fuchun
Bai, Chenjia
Li, Xuelong
author_facet Shi, Jiyuan
Liu, Xinzhe
Wang, Dewei
Lu, Ouyang
Schwertfeger, Sören
Zhang, Chi
Sun, Fuchun
Bai, Chenjia
Li, Xuelong
contents Humans exhibit diverse and expressive whole-body movements. However, attaining human-like whole-body coordination in humanoid robots remains challenging, as conventional approaches that mimic whole-body motions often neglect the distinct roles of upper and lower body. This oversight leads to computationally intensive policy learning and frequently causes robot instability and falls during real-world execution. To address these issues, we propose Adversarial Locomotion and Motion Imitation (ALMI), a novel framework that enables adversarial policy learning between upper and lower body. Specifically, the lower body aims to provide robust locomotion capabilities to follow velocity commands while the upper body tracks various motions. Conversely, the upper-body policy ensures effective motion tracking when the robot executes velocity-based movements. Through iterative updates, these policies achieve coordinated whole-body control, which can be extended to loco-manipulation tasks with teleoperation systems. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves robust locomotion and precise motion tracking in both simulation and on the full-size Unitree H1 robot. Additionally, we release a large-scale whole-body motion control dataset featuring high-quality episodic trajectories from MuJoCo simulations deployable on real robots. The project page is https://almi-humanoid.github.io.
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spellingShingle Adversarial Locomotion and Motion Imitation for Humanoid Policy Learning
Shi, Jiyuan
Liu, Xinzhe
Wang, Dewei
Lu, Ouyang
Schwertfeger, Sören
Zhang, Chi
Sun, Fuchun
Bai, Chenjia
Li, Xuelong
Robotics
Humans exhibit diverse and expressive whole-body movements. However, attaining human-like whole-body coordination in humanoid robots remains challenging, as conventional approaches that mimic whole-body motions often neglect the distinct roles of upper and lower body. This oversight leads to computationally intensive policy learning and frequently causes robot instability and falls during real-world execution. To address these issues, we propose Adversarial Locomotion and Motion Imitation (ALMI), a novel framework that enables adversarial policy learning between upper and lower body. Specifically, the lower body aims to provide robust locomotion capabilities to follow velocity commands while the upper body tracks various motions. Conversely, the upper-body policy ensures effective motion tracking when the robot executes velocity-based movements. Through iterative updates, these policies achieve coordinated whole-body control, which can be extended to loco-manipulation tasks with teleoperation systems. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves robust locomotion and precise motion tracking in both simulation and on the full-size Unitree H1 robot. Additionally, we release a large-scale whole-body motion control dataset featuring high-quality episodic trajectories from MuJoCo simulations deployable on real robots. The project page is https://almi-humanoid.github.io.
title Adversarial Locomotion and Motion Imitation for Humanoid Policy Learning
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14305