无臂双足轮式机器人通过力引导学习实现鲁棒跌倒恢复
Robust Fall Recovery for Armless Bipedal-Wheeled Robots Via Force-Guided Learning

- 设计力引导师生框架,用虚拟力辅助训练
- 在仿真中实现90%以上姿态恢复率,物理机上验证成功
- 适合无肢体辅助的复杂地形移动机器人研究者
跌倒恢复对自主腿式运动至关重要。现有方法依赖手臂或多腿协同生成支撑力,但无臂双足轮式机器人仅靠腿部驱动,恢复难度大。本文提出FTSR(力引导师生框架与分阶段奖励),在仿真训练中引入与实时高度相关的外部辅助力,将其作为可优化约束。通过约束强化学习,策略逐步减少对力的依赖并提升身体高度,发展出无需外部支持的内部恢复机制。分阶段高度递增奖励结构化地促进姿态稳定与持续行走过渡,结合师生架构提炼力作用与恢复动态的先验知识。训练后策略部署于真实无臂双足轮式机器人,实验表明在多种挑战条件下均能实现鲁棒可靠的跌倒恢复,具备强环境适应性与运动鲁棒性,且恢复后仍保持完整运动能力。该框架还有效推广至高自由度人形机器人,验证其实际泛化能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Fall recovery is critical for autonomous legged locomotion. Existing methods have demonstrated that some legged robots, such as humanoids and quadrupeds, are capable of fall recovery from diverse postures by utilizing arms or coordinating multi-legs to generate support forces. Without arms or other legs to provide supportive assistance, a bipedal-wheeled robot must rely solely on the actuation of its legs, making recovery particularly difficult. To address this, we introduce FTSR (Force-guided Teacher-student framework with Stage-wise Rewards). The force-guided method constructs an external auxiliary force during simulation training that correlates directly with the robot's real-time height, explicitly formulating this force as an optimizable constraint. Through constrained reinforcement learning, the policy is guided toward reducing force dependency gradually and increasing the body height, developing internal recovery strategies despite having no arms for support. Height-progressive stage-Wise rewards progressively structure posture stabilization during recovery and transition to sustained locomotion, integrated with teacher-student architecture distilling privileged knowledge of force effects and recovery dynamics. After simulation training, the policy is deployed on a physical armless bipedal-wheeled robot and extensively evaluated. Experiments confirm robust and reliable fall recovery under diverse challenging conditions, demonstrating strong environmental adaptability and motion robustness, while maintaining full post-recovery motion capability. The framework also generalizes effectively to a high-DOF humanoid, confirming its practical generalizability. The project page is available at https://2350575870.github.io/force-guided.github.io/
Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。