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cs.RO2026

Closing the Loop on the Poppy Humanoid: Bipedal Locomotion with Linear-Quadratic Control and Learned Cost Functions

Xulin Chen, Borui He, Ruipeng Liu +3

The Poppy Humanoid is an open-source, low-cost robot suitable for research and education in artificial intelligence. However, we are unaware of any published methodology that achie…

cs.RO2025

Beyond Topology: A Morphological Symmetry Graph Representation for Locomotion Policy Learning

Sizhe Wei, Xulin Chen, Fengze Xie +3

Reinforcement learning has enabled impressive locomotion skills on articulated robots, but common policy representations remain only weakly aligned with robot physics. Generic netw…

cs.RO2025

Towards Dynamic Quadrupedal Gaits: A Symmetry-Guided RL Hierarchy Enables Free Gait Transitions at Varying Speeds

Jiayu Ding, Xulin Chen, Garrett E. Katz +1

Quadrupedal robots exhibit a wide range of viable gaits, but generating specific footfall sequences often requires laborious expert tuning of numerous variables, such as touch-down…

cs.RO2025

Refining Motion for Peak Performance: Identifying Optimal Gait Parameters for Energy-Efficient Quadrupedal Bounding

Yasser G. Alqaham, Jing Cheng, Zhenyu Gan

Energy efficiency is a critical factor in the performance and autonomy of quadrupedal robots. While previous research has focused on mechanical design and actuation improvements, t…

cs.RO2025

Iteratively Learning Muscle Memory for Legged Robots to Master Adaptive and High Precision Locomotion

Jing Cheng, Yasser G. Alqaham, Zhenyu Gan +1

This paper presents a scalable and adaptive control framework for legged robots that integrates Iterative Learning Control (ILC) with a biologically inspired torque library (TL), a…

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16 Ways to Gallop: Energetics and Body Dynamics of High-Speed Quadrupedal Gaits

Yasser G. Alqaham, Jing Cheng, Zhenyu Gan

Galloping is a common high-speed gait in both animals and quadrupedal robots, yet its energetic characteristics remain insufficiently explored. This study systematically analyzes a…