TARC: Time-Adaptive Robotic Control

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Main Authors: Sukhija, Arnav, Treven, Lenart, Cheng, Jin, Dörfler, Florian, Coros, Stelian, Krause, Andreas
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Published: 2025
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author Sukhija, Arnav
Treven, Lenart
Cheng, Jin
Dörfler, Florian
Coros, Stelian
Krause, Andreas
author_facet Sukhija, Arnav
Treven, Lenart
Cheng, Jin
Dörfler, Florian
Coros, Stelian
Krause, Andreas
contents Fixed-frequency control in robotics imposes a trade-off between the efficiency of low-frequency control and the robustness of high-frequency control, a limitation not seen in adaptable biological systems. We address this with a reinforcement learning approach in which policies jointly select control actions and their application durations, enabling robots to autonomously modulate their control frequency in response to situational demands. We validate our method with zero-shot sim-to-real experiments on two distinct hardware platforms: a high-speed RC car and a quadrupedal robot. Our method matches or outperforms fixed-frequency baselines in terms of rewards while significantly reducing the control frequency and exhibiting adaptive frequency control under real-world conditions.
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spellingShingle TARC: Time-Adaptive Robotic Control
Sukhija, Arnav
Treven, Lenart
Cheng, Jin
Dörfler, Florian
Coros, Stelian
Krause, Andreas
Robotics
Machine Learning
Fixed-frequency control in robotics imposes a trade-off between the efficiency of low-frequency control and the robustness of high-frequency control, a limitation not seen in adaptable biological systems. We address this with a reinforcement learning approach in which policies jointly select control actions and their application durations, enabling robots to autonomously modulate their control frequency in response to situational demands. We validate our method with zero-shot sim-to-real experiments on two distinct hardware platforms: a high-speed RC car and a quadrupedal robot. Our method matches or outperforms fixed-frequency baselines in terms of rewards while significantly reducing the control frequency and exhibiting adaptive frequency control under real-world conditions.
title TARC: Time-Adaptive Robotic Control
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23176