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ArticleFrontiers in neurorobotics2022

Multimodal bipedal locomotion generation with passive dynamics

Shunsuke Koseki, Kyo Kutsuzawa, Dai Owaki, Mitsuhiro Hayashibe

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Article in Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2022. 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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4 authors.

Shunsuke KosekiNeuro-Robotics Lab, Department of Robotics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Kyo KutsuzawaNeuro-Robotics Lab, Department of Robotics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Dai OwakiNeuro-Robotics Lab, Department of Robotics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Mitsuhiro HayashibeNeuro-Robotics Lab, Department of Robotics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Generating multimodal locomotion in underactuated bipedal robots requires control solutions that can facilitate motion patterns for drastically different dynamical modes, which is an extremely challenging problem in locomotion-learning tasks. Also, in such multimodal locomotion, utilizing body morphology is important because it leads to energy-efficient locomotion. This study provides a framework that reproduces multimodal bipedal locomotion using passive dynamics through deep reinforcement learning (DRL). An underactuated bipedal model was developed based on a passive walker, and a controller was designed using DRL. By carefully planning the weight parameter settings of the DRL reward function during the learning process based on a curriculum learning method, the bipedal model successfully learned to walk, run, and perform gait transitions by adjusting only one command input. These results indicate that DRL can be applied to generate various gaits with the effective use of passive dynamics.

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bipedal walking and runningdeep reinforcement learningembodimentgait transitionunderactuated robot

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PMID36756534
PMCPMC9899902

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