人型ロボットによる人力車牽引:車輪付き負荷と連成する全身移動
Humanoid Rickshaw Pulling: Whole-Body Locomotion under Coupled Wheeled Loads
人型ロボットが受動的な車輪付き車両を牽引するための全身制御フレームワークを提案し、不確実な負荷動力学下でもバランスと把持を維持しながら車両追従を実現した。
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著者: Yangzhi Yang, Xiansheng Lin, Zhaoming Xie, Xiaobin Xiong
分類: cs.RO, cs.LG
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Humanoid robots could transport payloads substantially heavier than themselves by pulling passive wheeled vehicles instead of carrying the load. This capability, however, creates a coupled locomotion problem: the robot must maintain persistent upper-body contact while adapting to unknown, configuration-dependent forces arising from the payload, vehicle, and terrain. We present a whole-body control framework for humanoid rickshaw pulling that tracks commanded vehicle motion while preserving balance and stable grasps under uncertain load dynamics. During training, a privileged teacher exploits vehicle states, interaction forces, and load properties. Its actions and latent are distilled into a history-conditioned student that implicitly infers coupled dynamics from proprioceptive responses, followed by reinforcement-learning fine-tuning. Comparisons with \emph{No History} and \emph{Only History} baselines show that the resulting policy achieves accurate vehicle tracking while reducing vehicle oscillation, torso tilt, and actuation cost. Behavioral analysis shows that Unitree G1 propels the rickshaw and generates gait-synchronized whole-body reactions that stabilize its lateral and roll motions. Moreover, pulling redistributes joint effort and yields a lower robot-normalized cost-of-transport proxy than unloaded walking over most tested load--speed conditions. On hardware, a single policy performs starting, sustained pulling, turning, and stopping with both rigid payloads and human passengers, handling a loaded rickshaw mass of up to 115~kg without load-specific retuning. These results demonstrate robust heavy-load transportation through coordinated and persistent humanoid--vehicle interaction.