Diffusion-based learning of contact plans for agile locomotion

Autor: Dhédin, Victor, Ravi, Adithya Kumar Chinnakkonda, Jordana, Armand, Zhu, Huaijiang, Meduri, Avadesh, Righetti, Ludovic, Schölkopf, Bernhard, Khadiv, Majid
Rok vydání: 2024
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Legged robots have become capable of performing highly dynamic maneuvers in the past few years. However, agile locomotion in highly constrained environments such as stepping stones is still a challenge. In this paper, we propose a combination of model-based control, search, and learning to design efficient control policies for agile locomotion on stepping stones. In our framework, we use nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) to generate whole-body motions for a given contact plan. To efficiently search for an optimal contact plan, we propose to use Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS). While the combination of MCTS and NMPC can quickly find a feasible plan for a given environment (a few seconds), it is not yet suitable to be used as a reactive policy. Hence, we generate a dataset for optimal goal-conditioned policy for a given scene and learn it through supervised learning. In particular, we leverage the power of diffusion models in handling multi-modality in the dataset. We test our proposed framework on a scenario where our quadruped robot Solo12 successfully jumps to different goals in a highly constrained environment.
Databáze: arXiv