Hierarchical Vision Navigation System for Quadruped Robots with Foothold Adaptation Learning

Autor: Junli Ren, Yingru Dai, Bowen Liu, Pengwei Xie, Guijin Wang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 23, Iss 11, p 5194 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s23115194
Popis: Legged robots can travel through complex scenes via dynamic foothold adaptation. However, it remains a challenging task to efficiently utilize the dynamics of robots in cluttered environments and to achieve efficient navigation. We present a novel hierarchical vision navigation system combining foothold adaptation policy with locomotion control of the quadruped robots. The high-level policy trains an end-to-end navigation policy, generating an optimal path to approach the target with obstacle avoidance. Meanwhile, the low-level policy trains the foothold adaptation network through auto-annotated supervised learning to adjust the locomotion controller and to provide more feasible foot placement. Extensive experiments in both simulation and the real world show that the system achieves efficient navigation against challenges in dynamic and cluttered environments without prior information.
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