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Autonomous Learning of Stable Quadruped Locomotion

Autonomous Learning of Stable Quadruped Locomotion. Manish Saggar, Thomas D'Silva, Nate Kohl, and Peter Stone. In Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico Sorenti, and Tomoichi Takahashi, editors, RoboCup-2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2007.
http://www.ira.disco.unimib.it/robocupsymposium06/

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Abstract

A fast gait is an essential component of any successful team in the RoboCup 4-legged league. However, quickly moving quadruped robots, including those with learned gaits, often move in such a way so as to cause unsteady camera motions which degrade the robot's visual capabilities. This paper presents an implementation of the policy gradient machine learning algorithm that searches for a parameterized walk while optimizing for both speed and stability. To the best of our knowledge, previous learned walks have all focused exclusively on speed. Our method is fully implemented and tested on the Sony Aibo ERS-7 robot platform. The resulting gait is reasonably fast and considerably more stable compared to our previous fast gaits. We demonstrate that this stability can significantly improve the robot's visual object recognition.

BibTeX Entry

@InCollection{saggar:rc06,
  author = "Manish Saggar and Thomas D'Silva and Nate Kohl and Peter Stone",
  title = "Autonomous Learning of Stable Quadruped Locomotion",
  booktitle = "{R}obo{C}up-2006: Robot Soccer World Cup {X}",
  editor = "Gerhard Lakemeyer and Elizabeth Sklar and Domenico Sorenti and Tomoichi Takahashi",
  publisher = "Springer Verlag",
  address = "Berlin",
  year = "2007",
  abstract = {
 A fast gait is an essential component of any successful team in the
 RoboCup 4-legged league.  However, quickly moving quadruped robots,
 including those with learned gaits, often move in such a way so as to
 cause unsteady camera motions which degrade the robot's visual
 capabilities.  This paper presents an implementation of the policy
 gradient machine learning algorithm that searches for a parameterized
 walk while optimizing for both speed and stability. To the best of
 our knowledge, previous learned walks have all focused exclusively on
 speed.  Our method is fully implemented and tested on the Sony Aibo
 ERS-7 robot platform. The resulting gait is reasonably fast and
 considerably more stable compared to our previous fast gaits.  We
 demonstrate that this stability can significantly improve the robot's
 visual object recognition.
  }
  wwwnote = {<a href="http://www.ira.disco.unimib.it/robocupsymposium06/">http://www.ira.disco.unimib.it/robocupsymposium06/</a>},
  bib2html_pubtype = {Refereed Conference},
  bib2html_rescat = {Robot Soccer, Robotics, Machine Learning}
}

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