Generating Diverse Challenging Terrains for Legged Robots Using Quality-Diversity Algorithm
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| author | Esquerre-Pourtère, Arthur Kim, Minsoo Park, Jaeheung |
| author_facet | Esquerre-Pourtère, Arthur Kim, Minsoo Park, Jaeheung |
| contents | While legged robots have achieved significant advancements in recent years, ensuring the robustness of their controllers on unstructured terrains remains challenging. It requires generating diverse and challenging unstructured terrains to test the robot and discover its vulnerabilities. This topic remains underexplored in the literature. This paper presents a Quality-Diversity framework to generate diverse and challenging terrains that uncover weaknesses in legged robot controllers. Our method, applied to both simulated bipedal and quadruped robots, produces an archive of terrains optimized to challenge the controller in different ways. Quantitative and qualitative analyses show that the generated archive effectively contains terrains that the robots struggled to traverse, presenting different failure modes. Interesting results were observed, including failure cases that were not necessarily expected. Experiments show that the generated terrains can also be used to improve RL-based controllers. |
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| spellingShingle | Generating Diverse Challenging Terrains for Legged Robots Using Quality-Diversity Algorithm Esquerre-Pourtère, Arthur Kim, Minsoo Park, Jaeheung Robotics Neural and Evolutionary Computing While legged robots have achieved significant advancements in recent years, ensuring the robustness of their controllers on unstructured terrains remains challenging. It requires generating diverse and challenging unstructured terrains to test the robot and discover its vulnerabilities. This topic remains underexplored in the literature. This paper presents a Quality-Diversity framework to generate diverse and challenging terrains that uncover weaknesses in legged robot controllers. Our method, applied to both simulated bipedal and quadruped robots, produces an archive of terrains optimized to challenge the controller in different ways. Quantitative and qualitative analyses show that the generated archive effectively contains terrains that the robots struggled to traverse, presenting different failure modes. Interesting results were observed, including failure cases that were not necessarily expected. Experiments show that the generated terrains can also be used to improve RL-based controllers. |
| title | Generating Diverse Challenging Terrains for Legged Robots Using Quality-Diversity Algorithm |
| topic | Robotics Neural and Evolutionary Computing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01362 |