3 papers
cs.RO2026
Demonstration-Guided Humanoid Stand-Up on an Emulated Deformable Surface
Aniruddh Kushwah, Vyankatesh Ashtekar, Ashish Dutta
This paper presents a reference-guided reinforcement learning framework to generate stand-up motion for a 29-DOF Unitree G1 humanoid on deformable soft ground, using a human demons…
cs.RO2026
Natural Sit-to-Stand Motion Synthesis For Humanoids via Guided Assistance Curricula and Staged Rewards
Meet Pal Singh, Vyankatesh Ashtekar, Ashish Dutta
A humanoid has infinitely many ways to stand up from sitting while maintaining balance, making sit-to-stand (STS) a challenging control problem. We synthesise natural humanoid STS…
cs.RO2026
ODG-NoMaD: Overhead-Camera Direction-Guided NoMaD
Blossom Treesa Bastian, Keerthi S. Shetty, Manish Kolachalam +2
NoMaD [31] is a learned vision-navigation policy that unifies goal-conditioned navigation and exploration in a single goal-masked diffusion policy. In an unseen environment, howeve…