3 papers
cs.RO2024
A Biomechanics-Inspired Approach to Soccer Kicking for Humanoid Robots
Daniel Marew, Nisal Perera, Shangqun Yu +2
Soccer kicking is a complex whole-body motion that requires intricate coordination of various motor actions. To accomplish such dynamic motion in a humanoid robot, the robot needs…
cs.RO2024
Learning Generic and Dynamic Locomotion of Humanoids Across Discrete Terrains
Shangqun Yu, Nisal Perera, Daniel Marew +1
This paper addresses the challenge of terrain-adaptive dynamic locomotion in humanoid robots, a problem traditionally tackled by optimization-based methods or reinforcement learnin…
cs.RO2024
StaccaToe: A Single-Leg Robot that Mimics the Human Leg and Toe
Nisal Perera, Shangqun Yu, Daniel Marew +6
We introduce StaccaToe, a human-scale, electric motor-powered single-leg robot designed to rival the agility of human locomotion through two distinctive attributes: an actuated toe…