9 papers
Guiding Energy-Efficient Locomotion through Impact Mitigation Rewards
Chenghao Wang, Arjun Viswanathan, Eric Sihite +1
Animals achieve energy-efficient locomotion by their implicit passive dynamics, a marvel that has captivated roboticists for decades.Recently, methods incorporated Adversarial Moti…
Dynamic Quadrupedal Legged and Aerial Locomotion via Structure Repurposing
Chenghao Wang, Kaushik Venkatesh Krishnamurthy, Shreyansh Pitroda +5
Multi-modal ground-aerial robots have been extensively studied, with a significant challenge lying in the integration of conflicting requirements across different modes of operatio…
Thruster-Enhanced Locomotion: A Decoupled Model Predictive Control with Learned Contact Residuals
Chenghao Wang, Alireza Ramezani
Husky Carbon, a robot developed by Northeastern University, serves as a research platform to explore unification of posture manipulation and thrust vectoring. Unlike conventional q…
Quadratic Programming-Based Posture Manipulation and Thrust-vectoring for Agile Dynamic Walking on Narrow Pathways
Chenghao Wang, Eric Sihite, Kaushik Venkatesh Krishnamurthy +4
There has been significant advancement in legged robot's agility where they can show impressive acrobatic maneuvers, such as parkour. These maneuvers rely heavily on posture manipu…
Enhanced Capture Point Control Using Thruster Dynamics and QP-Based Optimization for Harpy
Shreyansh Pitroda, Eric Sihite, Taoran Liu +6
Our work aims to make significant strides in understanding unexplored locomotion control paradigms based on the integration of posture manipulation and thrust vectoring. These tech…
Conjugate momentum based thruster force estimate in dynamic multimodal robot
Shreyansh Pitroda, Eric Sihite, Taoran Liu +6
In a multi-modal system which combines thruster and legged locomotion such our state-of-the-art Harpy platform to perform dynamic locomotion. Therefore, it is very important to hav…