Papers for

robotic platform integrators

Papers whose findings have a practical use for this group, as judged from the abstract. Open a paper to read what it means in practice.

Humanoid robot maintains stable walking despite missing sensor data

RoboDreamer: Anticipatory Humanoid Locomotion with Predictive State-Space Models

Abstract: Humanoid locomotion requires control policies that remain stable under imperfect sensing while exploiting temporal context for consistent motion. We present RoboDreamer, a two-stage teacher--student framework that combines next-observation consistency with randomized continuous temporal masking. A teacher is first trained on clean observations, and a student is then distilled under masked recent observations, encouraging the policy to infer missing current information from history. At inference, the same masking interface is reused for implicit closed-loop action refinement and optional multi-step action chunking. Mamba is used as the temporal backbone, while matched ablations show that masking/distillation provides a substantial part of the gain and Mamba contributes additional tracking improvements with real-time latency. Experiments in IsaacLab, MuJoCo, and on a Unitree G1 demonstrate robust motion tracking under observation masking and successful real-world deployment.

Mon 7 SeptRobotics
The gist
Robotic walking is tricky because sensors can sometimes miss important details, making the robot stumble. The authors developed RoboDreamer, a two-step training method where a 'teacher' robot learns from perfect data and a 'student' robot learns to fill in gaps using past information. This helps the robot keep walking smoothly even when its current sensor data is incomplete or noisy. The method was tested both in computer simulations and on a real robot, showing it works well in practice.
Open → 2609.07096v1