Integrating Learning-Based Manipulation and Physics-Based Locomotion for Whole-Body Badminton Robot Control
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| author | Wang, Haochen Shi, Zhiwei Zhu, Chengxi Qiao, Yafei Zhang, Cheng Yang, Fan Ren, Pengjie Lu, Lan Xuan, Dong |
| author_facet | Wang, Haochen Shi, Zhiwei Zhu, Chengxi Qiao, Yafei Zhang, Cheng Yang, Fan Ren, Pengjie Lu, Lan Xuan, Dong |
| contents | Learning-based methods, such as imitation learning (IL) and reinforcement learning (RL), can produce excel control policies over challenging agile robot tasks, such as sports robot. However, no existing work has harmonized learning-based policy with model-based methods to reduce training complexity and ensure the safety and stability for agile badminton robot control. In this paper, we introduce Hamlet, a novel hybrid control system for agile badminton robots. Specifically, we propose a model-based strategy for chassis locomotion which provides a base for arm policy. We introduce a physics-informed "IL+RL" training framework for learning-based arm policy. In this train framework, a model-based strategy with privileged information is used to guide arm policy training during both IL and RL phases. In addition, we train the critic model during IL phase to alleviate the performance drop issue when transitioning from IL to RL. We present results on our self-engineered badminton robot, achieving 94.5% success rate against the serving machine and 90.7% success rate against human players. Our system can be easily generalized to other agile mobile manipulation tasks such as agile catching and table tennis. Our project website: https://dreamstarring.github.io/HAMLET/. |
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| spellingShingle | Integrating Learning-Based Manipulation and Physics-Based Locomotion for Whole-Body Badminton Robot Control Wang, Haochen Shi, Zhiwei Zhu, Chengxi Qiao, Yafei Zhang, Cheng Yang, Fan Ren, Pengjie Lu, Lan Xuan, Dong Robotics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Learning-based methods, such as imitation learning (IL) and reinforcement learning (RL), can produce excel control policies over challenging agile robot tasks, such as sports robot. However, no existing work has harmonized learning-based policy with model-based methods to reduce training complexity and ensure the safety and stability for agile badminton robot control. In this paper, we introduce Hamlet, a novel hybrid control system for agile badminton robots. Specifically, we propose a model-based strategy for chassis locomotion which provides a base for arm policy. We introduce a physics-informed "IL+RL" training framework for learning-based arm policy. In this train framework, a model-based strategy with privileged information is used to guide arm policy training during both IL and RL phases. In addition, we train the critic model during IL phase to alleviate the performance drop issue when transitioning from IL to RL. We present results on our self-engineered badminton robot, achieving 94.5% success rate against the serving machine and 90.7% success rate against human players. Our system can be easily generalized to other agile mobile manipulation tasks such as agile catching and table tennis. Our project website: https://dreamstarring.github.io/HAMLET/. |
| title | Integrating Learning-Based Manipulation and Physics-Based Locomotion for Whole-Body Badminton Robot Control |
| topic | Robotics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17771 |