5 papers
Motion Tracking with Muscles: Predictive Control of a Parametric Musculoskeletal Canine Model
Vittorio La Barbera, Steven Bohez, Leonard Hasenclever +2
We introduce a novel musculoskeletal model of a dog, procedurally generated from accurate 3D muscle meshes. Accompanying this model is a motion capture-based locomotion task compat…
Whole-Body Model-Predictive Control of Legged Robots with MuJoCo
John Z. Zhang, Taylor A. Howell, Zeji Yi +6
We demonstrate the surprising real-world effectiveness of a very simple approach to whole-body model-predictive control (MPC) of quadruped and humanoid robots: the iterative LQR (i…
The Trajectory Bundle Method: Unifying Sequential-Convex Programming and Sampling-Based Trajectory Optimization
Kevin Tracy, John Z. Zhang, Jon Arrizabalaga +4
We present a unified framework for solving trajectory optimization problems in a derivative-free manner through the use of sequential convex programming. Traditionally, nonconvex o…
Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
David B. D'Ambrosio, Saminda Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser +24
Achieving human-level speed and performance on real world tasks is a north star for the robotics research community. This work takes a step towards that goal and presents the first…
MuJoCo Playground
Kevin Zakka, Baruch Tabanpour, Qiayuan Liao +10
We introduce MuJoCo Playground, a fully open-source framework for robot learning built with MJX, with the express goal of streamlining simulation, training, and sim-to-real transfe…