Disturbance-Aware Adaptive Compensation in Hybrid Force-Position Locomotion Policy for Legged Robots

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Main Authors: Zhang, Yang, Nie, Buqing, Cao, Zhanxiang, Fu, Yangqing, Gao, Yue
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Published: 2025
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author Zhang, Yang
Nie, Buqing
Cao, Zhanxiang
Fu, Yangqing
Gao, Yue
author_facet Zhang, Yang
Nie, Buqing
Cao, Zhanxiang
Fu, Yangqing
Gao, Yue
contents Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based methods have significantly improved the locomotion performance of legged robots. However, these motion policies face significant challenges when deployed in the real world. Robots operating in uncertain environments struggle to adapt to payload variations and external disturbances, resulting in severe degradation of motion performance. In this work, we propose a novel Hybrid Force-Position Locomotion Policy (HFPLP) learning framework, where the action space of the policy is defined as a combination of target joint positions and feedforward torques, enabling the robot to rapidly respond to payload variations and external disturbances. In addition, the proposed Disturbance-Aware Adaptive Compensation (DAAC) provides compensation actions in the torque space based on external disturbance estimation, enhancing the robot's adaptability to dynamic environmental changes. We validate our approach in both simulation and real-world deployment, demonstrating that it outperforms existing methods in carrying payloads and resisting disturbances.
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spellingShingle Disturbance-Aware Adaptive Compensation in Hybrid Force-Position Locomotion Policy for Legged Robots
Zhang, Yang
Nie, Buqing
Cao, Zhanxiang
Fu, Yangqing
Gao, Yue
Robotics
Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based methods have significantly improved the locomotion performance of legged robots. However, these motion policies face significant challenges when deployed in the real world. Robots operating in uncertain environments struggle to adapt to payload variations and external disturbances, resulting in severe degradation of motion performance. In this work, we propose a novel Hybrid Force-Position Locomotion Policy (HFPLP) learning framework, where the action space of the policy is defined as a combination of target joint positions and feedforward torques, enabling the robot to rapidly respond to payload variations and external disturbances. In addition, the proposed Disturbance-Aware Adaptive Compensation (DAAC) provides compensation actions in the torque space based on external disturbance estimation, enhancing the robot's adaptability to dynamic environmental changes. We validate our approach in both simulation and real-world deployment, demonstrating that it outperforms existing methods in carrying payloads and resisting disturbances.
title Disturbance-Aware Adaptive Compensation in Hybrid Force-Position Locomotion Policy for Legged Robots
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00472