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ArticleRoyal Society open science2021

Learning to stop: a unifying principle for legged locomotion in varying environments.

Thomas George Thuruthel, G Picardi, F Iida, C Laschi, M Calisti

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Bioinspired robots can foster nature conservation.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Thomas George ThuruthelBio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
G PicardiThe BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9066-692X
F IidaBio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
C LaschiThe BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5248-1043
M CalistiThe BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2590-188X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evolutionary studies have unequivocally proven the transition of living organisms from water to land. Consequently, it can be deduced that locomotion strategies must have evolved from one environment to the other. However, the mechanism by which this transition happened and its implications on bio-mechanical studies and robotics research have not been explored in detail. This paper presents a unifying control strategy for locomotion in varying environments based on the principle of 'learning to stop'. Using a common reinforcement learning framework, deep deterministic policy gradient, we show that our proposed learning strategy facilitates a fast and safe methodology for transferring learned controllers from the facile water environment to the harsh land environment. Our results not only propose a plausible mechanism for safe and quick transition of locomotion strategies from a water to land environment but also provide a novel alternative for safer and faster training of robots.

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locomotionmodellingreinforcement learning

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PMID33996134
PMCPMC8059566

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