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Illustration of locomotion policies deployed on the Darwin OP2 robot. Top: walk forward. Middle: walk backward. Bottom: walk sideways.

Illustration of locomotion policies deployed on the Darwin OP2 robot. Top: walk forward. Middle: walk backward. Bottom: walk sideways.

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We present a new approach for transfer of dynamic robot control policies such as biped locomotion from simulation to real hardware. Key to our approach is to perform system identification of the model parameters {\mu} of the hardware (e.g. friction, center-of-mass) in two distinct stages, before policy learning (pre-sysID) and after policy learning...

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... robot is tasked to walk on a yoga mat that lies on top of a white board, as shown in Figure 3. We choose this deformable surface to better provide protection for the robot. ...
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... results in a faster walking gait, and may also have contributed to the larger variance seen in our policy. An illustration of the three locomotion tasks with our trained policies can be seen in Figure 3. ...
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... robot is tasked to walk on a yoga mat that lies on top of a white board, as shown in Figure 3. We choose this deformable surface to better provide protection for the robot. ...
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... results in a faster walking gait, and may also have contributed to the larger variance seen in our policy. An illustration of the three locomotion tasks with our trained policies can be seen in Figure 3. ...

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