座ったままで:キャスター付きパッシブ移動椅子を用いた全方向人型ロコモーションの学習
Stay Seated: Learning Omnidirectional Humanoid Locomotion on a Passive Mobile Chair with Casters
人型ロボットがパッシブな移動椅子に座り、足で床を蹴って全方向に移動する方法を強化学習で実現した。模倣報酬なしで、接触センサや椅子の状態を使わずに学習可能であることを示した。
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著者: Kango Yanagida, Kazuki Miyazawa, Takato Horii
分類: cs.RO
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Humanoid robots with quasi-direct-drive actuators continuously generate joint torque while standing, whereas seated humans delegate weight support to chairs during desk work. As a first step toward seated loco-manipulation, we study omnidirectional seated locomotion on a passive mobile chair, requiring unfixed pelvis-seat contact and intermittent foot-floor propulsion of the robot-chair system. We extend a standard standing velocity-tracking environment with a passive-chair model, seated-state rewards, critic-only chair observations, and task-tailored contact settings. The policy is learned without motion-imitation rewards; its actor uses only proprioception and velocity commands, without contact sensing or chair states. In random-command evaluation, the policies tracked omnidirectional commands through nearly all 20-s rollouts, and the best seated policies could outperform the Standing policy in velocity tracking. Across four training seeds, a $2^3$ full-factorial comparison of symmetry regularization (SY), foot-slip regularization (FS), and command curriculum (CC) showed that FS reduced CoT but increased tracking error and that some FS-only policies converged to stationary local optima. Combining FS with either SY or CC avoided this failure without retuning FS, while SY improved bilateral leg symmetry during longitudinal motion. Direction-resolved analysis showed CoT ordered backward $<$ lateral $\ll$ forward, with planted-leg extension in backward and lateral motion and knee flexion following heel contact in forward motion. The learned policy achieved zero-shot sim-to-real transfer to a Unitree G1 and generated omnidirectional seated locomotion.