強化学習による自転車アクロバット
Bicycle Acrobatics with Reinforcement Learning
強化学習を用いて自転車ロボットに多様なアクロバティックなスタント（ジャンプ、フリップ、ウィリーなど）を学習させ、状態依存トリガーでポリシーを切り替えるオーケストレータにより長期的な連続スタントを実現した。
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著者: Shamel Fahmi, Arianna Ilvonen, Samuel Zapolsky, Yu-Ming Chen, Ravi Boggavarapu, Paul Drews, Ashwin Khadke, Dean Molinaro, Kaiyu Zheng, Alfred Rizzi, Gabriel Nelson
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Bicycle robots are fast and energy efficient, but their simple mechanical design and their underactuated and non-holonomic dynamics make highly agile maneuvers difficult to achieve. Here, we use Reinforcement Learning (RL) to enable a bicycle robot to learn and compose a diverse repertoire of dynamic acrobatic stunts. Using different RL formulations such as waypoint following, pose reaching, twist tracking, guided tracking, and motion imitation, the robot acquires autonomous single and multi-table forward and lateral jumps, steerable jumps, front flips, kip-ups, kip-downs, driving, wheelies, bunny hops, and three-point turns. To coordinate these behaviors, we introduce an orchestrator that transitions between policies using state-dependent triggers, enabling robust long-horizon acrobatic stunts. We validate the approach on the Ultra Mobility Vehicle (UMV), a custom bicycle robot, in simulation and hardware. The robot repeatedly traverses tables up to 1 m high, performs more than 15 consecutive autonomous jumps while following waypoints, handles previously unseen multi-table configurations, executes continuous repertoires of kipups, jumps, flips, kip-downs, over more than 20 consecutive trials, and performs more than 10 consecutive autonomous and steerable repertoires of wheelies, lateral jumps, and single-wheel jump downs. These results demonstrate that RL can endow bicycle robots with levels of agility previously associated primarily with legged platforms while preserving the speed and efficiency of wheeled locomotion, establishing a foundation for bicycle acrobatics.
