Learning Safe Humanoid Navigation from Reduced Order Models

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Original abstract

Research in humanoid robotics has achieved rapid progress in locomotion, and recent results have pushed the boundary on autonomous navigation. We demonstrate that a standard single-stage RL navigation pipeline struggles to scale to multi-level and multi-story terrain, limited by the difficulty of complex humanoid terrain interactions such as stairs. To overcome this challenge, we decompose the navigation problem into two pieces. First, we train a policy operating on the reduced order dynamics but with full 3D LiDAR observations to navigate complex, multi-story terrain. We then utilize this navigation knowledge to kickstart a policy operating on the full-order humanoid dynamics, with a frozen locomotion policy in the loop. Additionally, we demonstrate that applying a Poisson safety filter to the navigation policy output recovers safety in the presence of out-of-distribution obstacles, without dropping navigation success rate. We demonstrate the resulting RoM-Nav policy on a Unitree G1, accomplishing mapless multi-floor navigation covering trials with over 10m of vertical displacement and over 100m of path length. Project page with videos https://wdc3iii.github.io/rom-nav/ .

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