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most citedImitation Learning from MPC for Quadrupedal Multi-Gait Control

37 citations · 65 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.RO2026

LightNav-0: Eliciting VLM Spatial Intelligence for Generalist Embodied Navigation

Shaoan Wang, Aocheng Luo, Fei Huang +17

Embodied navigation requires agents to translate heterogeneous goals and visual observations into actions across tasks, environments, and robot embodiments. Modern vision-language…

cs.RO2026

Light-Loco-Parkour: Versatile Perceptive Whole-Body Locomotion via Multi-Skill Distillation

Hongming Chen, Zhuoran Li, Hongxi Wang +9

Existing humanoid whole-body control systems still fall short of the way humans move through cluttered terrain: they either track expressive whole-body references without terrain g…

cs.RO2026

SE(2) Navigation Mesh

Shuyang Shi, Kaixian Qu, Changan Chen +3

Global navigation for ground robots in complex multi-level environments requires representations that accurately capture traversable regions while enabling efficient path planning.…

cs.RO2025

Collaborative Loco-Manipulation for Pick-and-Place Tasks with Dynamic Reward Curriculum

Tianxu An, Flavio De Vincenti, Yuntao Ma +2

We present a hierarchical RL pipeline for training one-armed legged robots to perform pick-and-place (P&P) tasks end-to-end -- from approaching the payload to releasing it at a tar…

cs.RO2025

Learning Accurate Whole-body Throwing with High-frequency Residual Policy and Pullback Tube Acceleration

Yuntao Ma, Yang Liu, Kaixian Qu +1

Throwing is a fundamental skill that enables robots to manipulate objects in ways that extend beyond the reach of their arms. We present a control framework that combines learning…

cs.RO2025★ 20 cited

Learning coordinated badminton skills for legged manipulators

Yuntao Ma, Andrei Cramariuc, Farbod Farshidian +1

Coordinating the motion between lower and upper limbs and aligning limb control with perception are substantial challenges in robotics, particularly in dynamic environments. To thi…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

Learning to Open and Traverse Doors with a Legged Manipulator

Mike Zhang, Yuntao Ma, Takahiro Miki +1

Using doors is a longstanding challenge in robotics and is of significant practical interest in giving robots greater access to human-centric spaces. The task is challenging due to…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

IN-Sight: Interactive Navigation through Sight

Philipp Schoch, Fan Yang, Yuntao Ma +3

Current visual navigation systems often treat the environment as static, lacking the ability to adaptively interact with obstacles. This limitation leads to navigation failure when…

cs.RO2023

Learning Arm-Assisted Fall Damage Reduction and Recovery for Legged Mobile Manipulators

Yuntao Ma, Farbod Farshidian, Marco Hutter

Adaptive falling and recovery skills greatly extend the applicability of robot deployments. In the case of legged mobile manipulators, the robot arm could adaptively stop the fall…

cs.RO2022★ 5 cited

Combining Learning-based Locomotion Policy with Model-based Manipulation for Legged Mobile Manipulators

Yuntao Ma, Farbod Farshidian, Takahiro Miki +2

Deep reinforcement learning produces robust locomotion policies for legged robots over challenging terrains. To date, few studies have leveraged model-based methods to combine thes…

cs.RO2021★ 37 cited

Imitation Learning from MPC for Quadrupedal Multi-Gait Control

Alexander Reske, Jan Carius, Yuntao Ma +2

We present a learning algorithm for training a single policy that imitates multiple gaits of a walking robot. To achieve this, we use and extend MPC-Net, which is an Imitation Lear…

cs.MA2021

Preliminary Experimental Results of Context-Aware Teams of Multiple Autonomous Agents Operating under Constrained Communications

Jose Martinez-Lorenzo, Jeff Hudack, Yutao Jing +11

This work presents and experimentally test the framework used by our context-aware, distributed team of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS) capable of operating in real-time, in a…