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cs.RO2026

Generate, Track, Improve: Perceptive Multi-Skill Humanoid Locomotion with RL-Fine-Tuned Motion Generators

Zachary Olkin, William D. Compton, Aaron D. Ames

General purpose humanoids require locomotion controllers that are multi-skill, perceptive, dynamic, and robust enough to go anywhere humans can. In this work, we present a two laye…

cs.RO2026

Learning Safe Humanoid Navigation from Reduced Order Models

William D. Compton, Zachary Olkin, Ryan Bena +1

Research in humanoid robotics has achieved rapid progress in locomotion, and recent results have pushed the boundary on autonomous navigation. We demonstrate that a standard single…

cs.RO2026

Terrain Consistent Reference-Guided RL for Humanoid Navigation Autonomy

William D. Compton, Zachary Olkin, Aaron D. Ames

We present a method for training reference-guided, perceptive reinforcement learning locomotion policies for humanoid robots in which reference trajectories are modulated in traini…

eess.SY2026

Stability of Control Lyapunov Function Guided Reinforcement Learning

Zachary Olkin, William D. Compton, Aaron D. Ames

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become the de facto method for achieving locomotion on humanoid robots in practice, yet stability analysis of the corresponding control policies is…

cs.LG2026

Decoding Defensive Coverage Responsibilities in American Football Using Factorized Attention Based Transformer Models

Kevin Song, Evan Diewald, Ornob Siddiquee +4

Defensive coverage schemes in the National Football League (NFL) represent complex tactical patterns requiring coordinated assignments among defenders who must react dynamically to…