arXiv:2608.22033cs.RO2026-08

用可变形地形注意力编码,让四足机器人高效精准走稀疏地形

DELTA: Deformable Elevation-Based Local Terrain Attention Encoder for Sparse-Terrain Quadrupedal Locomotion

论文配图:DELTA: Deformable Elevation-Based Local Terrain Attention Encoder for Sparse-Terrain Quadrupedal Locomotion
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  • 根据状态动态采样局部地形块,固定数量的注意力令牌
  • 在高分辨率地图下仍保持低计算开销,性能接近传统方法
  • 无需脚点标签即可自动学习有效地形关注区域,适合真实机器人

在稀疏地形上实现稳定的四足机器人行走,关键在于选择与状态相关的地形信息以精确定位落脚点。基于模型的步态规划器虽能精准选址,但依赖显式模型假设。近期基于注意力的地图编码(AME)研究显示,端到端强化学习可隐式学习落脚指导。然而,密集型AME编码的计算成本随地图分辨率增加而上升,限制其在细粒度稀疏地形上的应用。本文提出DELTA:一种可变形高程基局部地形注意力编码器。DELTA预测状态相关的采样位置,从自适应的局部高程块中生成地形证据令牌,并仅对固定数量的令牌进行注意力计算。在固定采样和块设置下,编码器成本与地图分辨率无关。实验表明,DELTA在标准分辨率下达到与AME相当的最终通行性能,同时提升学习效率。固定的编码成本使高分辨率地形地图成为可能,显著改善细粒度稀疏地形通行表现。DELTA在包含连续与离散地形元素的未见混合测试路径上也表现出强泛化能力。此外,在真实机器人RAIBO2上成功实现从仿真到现实的迁移。对学习到的采样偏移与注意力权重分析表明,DELTA能自动聚焦于可踩踏区域,并关注对未来触地相关的信息,无需脚点标签或注意力监督。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Stable quadrupedal locomotion on sparse terrain requires selecting state-relevant terrain evidence for precise foot placement. Model-based foothold planners provide precise foothold selection but rely heavily on explicit model assumptions. Recent attention-based map encoding (AME) studies show that end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) can learn implicit foothold guidance. However, the computational cost of dense AME encoding grows with map resolution, limiting its scalability to fine-grained sparse terrain. We propose DELTA, a Deformable Elevation-Based Local Terrain Attention encoder. DELTA predicts state-conditioned sampling locations, forms terrain evidence tokens from adaptive local elevation patches, and attends only to a fixed-size token set. With fixed sampling and patch settings, DELTA's encoder cost is independent of map resolution. Experiments show that DELTA achieves final traversal performance comparable to AME at the standard resolution while improving learning efficiency. This fixed encoder cost enables the use of higher-resolution terrain maps, improving traversal on fine-grained sparse terrain. DELTA also demonstrates strong generalization to unseen mixed evaluation courses composed of continuous and discrete terrain elements. Beyond simulation, DELTA demonstrates successful sim-to-real transfer on RAIBO2. Analysis of the learned sampling offsets and attention weights shows that DELTA samples steppable regions and attends to terrain evidence relevant to future touchdowns without foothold labels or attention supervision.

四足机器人注意力机制地形导航强化学习

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