ロボット・イカゲーム：狭いトンネルを横断する四足歩行
Robot Squid Game: Quadrupedal Locomotion for Traversing Narrow Tunnels
四足ロボットが狭いトンネルなどの閉鎖環境を自律的に移動するための強化学習フレームワークを提案。手続き的環境生成とポリシー蒸留を組み合わせ、複雑な報酬設計なしで多様なトンネル形状に対応する。
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著者: Amir Hossain Raj, Dibyendu Das, Xuesu Xiao
分類: cs.RO
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Quadruped robots demonstrate exceptional potential for navigating complex terrain in critical applications such as search and rescue missions and infrastructure inspection However autonomous traversal of confined 3D environments including tunnels caves and collapsed structures remains a significant challenge Existing methods often struggle with rigid gait patterns limited adaptability to diverse geometries and reliance on oversimplified environmental assumptions This paper introduces a Reinforcement Learning RL framework that combines procedural environment generation with policy distillation to enable robust locomotion across various tunnel configurations Our approach leverages a teacher student training paradigm where specialized expert policies trained on procedurally generated tunnel geometries transfer their knowledge to a unified student policy This strategy eliminates the need for complex reward shaping in end-to-end RL training simplifying the process by breaking down complicated tasks into smaller more manageable components that are easier for the robot to learn By synthesizing diverse tunnel structures during training and distilling navigation strategies into a generalizable policy our method achieves consistent traversal across complex spatial constraints where conventional approaches fail We demonstrate through both simulation and real world experiments that our method enables quadruped robots to successfully traverse challenging confined tunnel environments
