no code implementations • 29 May 2024 • Alexander L. Mitchell, Wolfgang Merkt, Aristotelis Papatheodorou, Ioannis Havoutis, Ingmar Posner
The current state-of-the-art in quadruped locomotion is able to produce robust motion for terrain traversal but requires the segmentation of a desired robot trajectory into a discrete set of locomotion skills such as trot and crawl.
no code implementations • 2 May 2022 • Alexander L. Mitchell, Wolfgang Merkt, Mathieu Geisert, Siddhant Gangapurwala, Martin Engelcke, Oiwi Parker Jones, Ioannis Havoutis, Ingmar Posner
We evaluate our approach on two versions of the real ANYmal quadruped robots and demonstrate that our method achieves a continuous blend of dynamic trot styles whilst being robust and reactive to external perturbations.
no code implementations • 9 Dec 2021 • Alexander L. Mitchell, Wolfgang Merkt, Mathieu Geisert, Siddhant Gangapurwala, Martin Engelcke, Oiwi Parker Jones, Ioannis Havoutis, Ingmar Posner
This encourages disentanglement such that application of a drive signal to a single dimension of the latent state induces holistic plans synthesising a continuous variety of trot styles.
no code implementations • 3 Jul 2020 • Alexander L. Mitchell, Martin Engelcke, Oiwi Parker Jones, David Surovik, Siddhant Gangapurwala, Oliwier Melon, Ioannis Havoutis, Ingmar Posner
In addition, kinodynamic constraints are often non-differentiable and difficult to implement in an optimisation approach.