arXiv:2607.07830cs.RO2026-07

让机器人在陡坡上稳定行走,靠物理规律引导姿态调整

Physics-Guided Biomechanical Gait Adaptation for Humanoid Locomotion on Extreme Sloped Terrains

论文配图:Physics-Guided Biomechanical Gait Adaptation for Humanoid Locomotion on Extreme Sloped Terrains
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  • 分两阶段设计:先用坡度自适应的平衡约束,再用生物力学模型调节步态
  • 实测可在62.7%(32.1°)的草地斜坡上盲行,不依赖外部感知
  • 无需在线传感器,仅靠自身感觉就能应对复杂地形,适合真实场景部署

无模型强化学习已实现令人瞩目的类人机器人行走能力,但在陡坡上的控制仍基本未被探索。与平坦或离散地形不同,斜坡持续施加重力偏置,要求同时具备稳定性和姿态控制。因此,在通用奖励函数下,策略容易收敛到缓慢、保守的低重心蜷缩步态。本文提出一种新型两阶段物理引导框架HumoSlope,专为多样化斜坡地形设计。第一阶段通过在局部倾斜支撑面而非世界水平参考系上评估坡度自适应的零力矩点(ZMP)正则项,建立地形一致的平衡基准。为防止策略退化为蜷缩姿态,第二阶段引入生物力学坡度步态适配器(BSGA),利用提取的宏观地形描述符作为训练期特权信号,动态调节软奖励先验,依据估计坡度几何形状调节重心高度与下肢协调——鼓励上坡时髋部主导推进,下坡时膝部主导制动。关键在于,部署的执行器完全依赖本体感受,无需在线外部感知。大量仿真到现实实验表明,该框架有效缓解姿态退化,实现对室外草地斜坡长达62.7%(32.1°)的盲态连续穿越,验证了物理引导方法在挑战性坡地适应中的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Model-free reinforcement learning has enabled impressive humanoid locomotion; however, control on steep slopes remains largely unexplored. Unlike flat or discrete terrains, sloped terrains impose a persistent gravitational bias that demands simultaneous stability and posture control. Consequently, under generic reward formulations, policies can converge to slow, conservative low-center-of-mass (CoM) crouched gaits. In this work, we propose a novel two-stage physics-guided framework, dubbed HumoSlope, dedicated to robust humanoid locomotion on diverse sloped terrains. Specifically, Stage I establishes a terrain-consistent balance prior by introducing a slope-adaptive Zero Moment Point (ZMP) regularizer evaluated directly on the local inclined support plane rather than a world-horizontal reference. To prevent the resulting policy from defaulting to a crouched posture, Stage II introduces the Biomechanical Slope Gait Adapter (BSGA). Utilizing extracted macroscopic terrain descriptors as privileged, training-only signals, BSGA dynamically gates soft reward priors to modulate CoM height and lower-limb coordination based on the estimated slope geometry -- encouraging hip-dominant uphill propulsion and knee-oriented downhill braking. Crucially, the deployed actor remains entirely proprioceptive, requiring no online exteroceptive sensing. Extensive Sim-to-Real experiments demonstrate that our framework effectively mitigates posture degeneration and enables blind, continuous traversal of outdoor grass slopes up to 62.7% ($32.1^\circ$), validating a physics-guided approach to challenging slope terrain adaptation.

机器人行走物理引导斜坡适应强化学习

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