APEX:ヒューマノイドロボットのための適応的高プラットフォーム踏破学習
APEX: Learning Adaptive High-Platform Traversal for Humanoid Robots
深層強化学習を用いて、脚長を超える高さのプラットフォームを登攀・歩行・這行・立ち上がり・伏せの6スキルを統合した単一ポリシーで自律的に踏破するシステムを開発し、Unitree G1で実機ゼロショット転移を実現した。
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著者: Yikai Wang, Tingxuan Leng, Changyi Lin, Shiqi Liu, Shir Simon, Bingqing Chen, Jonathan Francis, Ding Zhao
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Humanoid locomotion has advanced rapidly with deep reinforcement learning (DRL), enabling robust feet-based traversal over uneven terrain. Yet platforms beyond leg length remain largely out of reach because current RL training paradigms often converge to jumping-like solutions that are high-impact, torque-limited, and unsafe for real-world deployment. To address this gap, we propose APEX, a system for perceptive, climbing-based high-platform traversal that composes terrain-conditioned behaviors: climb-up and climb-down at vertical edges, walking or crawling on the platform, and stand-up and lie-down for posture reconfiguration. Central to our approach is a generalized ratchet progress reward for learning contact-rich, goal-reaching maneuvers. It tracks the best-so-far task progress and penalizes non-improving steps, providing dense yet velocity-free supervision that enables efficient exploration under strong safety regularization. Based on this formulation, we train LiDAR-based full-body maneuver policies and reduce the sim-to-real perception gap through a dual strategy: modeling mapping artifacts during training and applying filtering and inpainting to elevation maps during deployment. Finally, we distill all six skills into a single policy that autonomously selects behaviors and transitions based on local geometry and commands. Experiments on a 29-DoF Unitree G1 humanoid demonstrate zero-shot sim-to-real traversal of 0.8 meter platforms (approximately 114% of leg length), with robust adaptation to platform height and initial pose, as well as smooth and stable multi-skill transitions.
