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most citedBracing for Impact: Robust Humanoid Push Recovery and Locomotion with Reduced Order Models

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cs.RO2025

Hierarchical Reduced-Order Model Predictive Control for Robust Locomotion on Humanoid Robots

Adrian B. Ghansah, Sergio A. Esteban, Aaron D. Ames

As humanoid robots enter real-world environments, ensuring robust locomotion across diverse environments is crucial. This paper presents a computationally efficient hierarchical co…

eess.SY2025

A Layered Control Perspective on Legged Locomotion: Embedding Reduced Order Models via Hybrid Zero Dynamics

Sergio A. Esteban, Max H. Cohen, Adrian B. Ghansah +1

Reduced-order models (ROMs) provide a powerful means of synthesizing dynamic walking gaits on legged robots. Yet this approach lacks the formal guarantees enjoyed by methods that u…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

Bracing for Impact: Robust Humanoid Push Recovery and Locomotion with Reduced Order Models

Lizhi Yang, Blake Werner, Adrian B. Ghansah +1

Push recovery during locomotion will facilitate the deployment of humanoid robots in human-centered environments. In this paper, we present a unified framework for walking control…

cs.RO2025

Reduced-Order Model Guided Contact-Implicit Model Predictive Control for Humanoid Locomotion

Sergio A. Esteban, Vince Kurtz, Adrian B. Ghansah +1

Humanoid robots have great potential for real-world applications due to their ability to operate in environments built for humans, but their deployment is hindered by the challenge…

cs.RO2024

Dynamic Walking on Highly Underactuated Point Foot Humanoids: Closing the Loop between HZD and HLIP

Adrian B. Ghansah, Jeeseop Kim, Kejun Li +1

Realizing bipedal locomotion on humanoid robots with point feet is especially challenging due to their highly underactuated nature, high degrees of freedom, and hybrid dynamics res…

cs.RO2023

Humanoid Robot Co-Design: Coupling Hardware Design with Gait Generation via Hybrid Zero Dynamics

Adrian B. Ghansah, Jeeseop Kim, Maegan Tucker +1

Selecting robot design parameters can be challenging since these parameters are often coupled with the performance of the controller and, therefore, the resulting capabilities of t…