Contact optimization for non-prehensile loco-manipulation via hierarchical model predictive control

A Rigo, Y Chen, SK Gupta… - 2023 ieee international …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies on quadruped robots have focused on either locomotion or mobile
manipulation using a robotic arm. However, legged robots can manipulate large objects …

Hierarchical adaptive loco-manipulation control for quadruped robots

M Sombolestan, Q Nguyen - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Legged robots have shown remarkable advantages in navigating uneven terrain. However,
realizing effective loco-motion and manipulation tasks on quadruped robots is still …

Dynamic walking of bipedal robots on uneven stepping stones via adaptive-frequency MPC

J Li, Q Nguyen - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a novel Adaptive-frequency MPC framework for bipedal locomotion over
terrain with uneven stepping stones. In detail, we intend to achieve adaptive gait periods …

Dynamic Loco-manipulation on HECTOR: Humanoid for Enhanced ConTrol and Open-source Research

J Li, J Ma, O Kolt, M Shah, Q Nguyen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.11868, 2023 - arxiv.org
Despite their remarkable advancement in locomotion and manipulation, humanoid robots
remain challenged by a lack of synchronized loco-manipulation control, hindering their full …

Humanoid Locomotion and Manipulation: Current Progress and Challenges in Control, Planning, and Learning

Z Gu, J Li, W Shen, W Yu, Z Xie, S McCrory… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Humanoid robots have great potential to perform various human-level skills. These skills
involve locomotion, manipulation, and cognitive capabilities. Driven by advances in machine …

Autotuning bipedal locomotion mpc with grfm-net for efficient sim-to-real transfer

Q Chen, J Li, S Cheng, N Hovakimyan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Bipedal locomotion control is essential for humanoid robots to navigate complex, human-
centric environments. While optimization-based control designs are popular for integrating …

Variable inertia model predictive control for fast bipedal maneuvers

SH Bang, J Lee, C Gonzalez, L Sentis - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.16811, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper proposes a novel control framework for agile and robust bipedal locomotion,
addressing model discrepancies between full-body and reduced-order models. Specifically …

[HTML][HTML] An MPC-DCM Control Method for a Forward-Bending Biped Robot Based on Force and Moment Control

Z Wei, W Deng, Z Feng, T Wang, X Huang - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
For a forward-bending biped robot with 10 degrees of freedom on its legs, a new control
framework of MPC-DCM based on force and moment is proposed in this paper. Specifically …

Hierarchical adaptive control for collaborative manipulation of a rigid object by quadrupedal robots

M Sombolestan, Q Nguyen - 2023 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the potential benefits of collaborative robots, effective manipulation tasks with
quadruped robots remain difficult to realize. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical control …

Continuous Dynamic Bipedal Jumping via Adaptive-model Optimization

J Li, O Kolt, Q Nguyen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11807, 2024 - arxiv.org
Dynamic and continuous jumping remains an open yet challenging problem in bipedal robot
control. The choice of dynamic models in trajectory optimization (TO) problems plays a huge …