DreamWaQ: legged robot walks in harsh environments with its imagination - extreme experiments

KAIST has developed a quadrupedal robot locomotion technology that moves up and down stairs without the aid of visual or tactile sensors in a disaster situation where it is impossible to see due to smoke and moves without falling over bumpy environments such as tree roots. Professor Hyun Myung’s research team (Urban Robotics Lab) in the School of Electrical Engineering developed a walking robot locomotion technology that enables robust ’blind locomotion’ in various atypical environments. See also: For details: Reference: I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Byeongho Yu, and Hyun Myung, “DreamWaQ: Learning Robust Quadrupedal Locomotion With Implicit Terrain Imagination via Deep Reinforcement Learning,“ Accepted to ICRA (IEEE Int’l Conf. Robotics and Automation) 2023, May 2023. Abstract: Quadrupedal robots resemble the physical abi