Thursday, August 05, 2021

RMA: Rapid Motor Adaptation for Legged Robots

Recommendable! This seems to be a promising approach for quadruped  robots developed by researchers from University of California Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University!

"... RMA consists of two components: a base policy and an adaptation module. The combination of these components enables the robot to adapt to novel situations in fractions of a second. RMA is trained completely in simulation without using any domain knowledge like reference trajectories or predefined foot trajectory generators and is deployed on the A1 robot without any fine-tuning. We train RMA on a varied terrain generator using bioenergetics-inspired rewards and deploy it on a variety of difficult terrains including rocky, slippery, deformable surfaces in environments with grass, long vegetation, concrete, pebbles, stairs, sand, etc. RMA shows state-of-the-art performance across diverse real-world as well as simulation experiments. ..."

[2107.04034] RMA: Rapid Motor Adaptation for Legged Robots

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