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Spatio-Temporal Motion Retargeting for Quadruped Robots

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Taerim Yoon
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Dongho Kang
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Seung‐Min Kim
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Jin Cheng
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Min Sung Ahn
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Stelian Coros
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Sungjoon Choi
DOI:10.1109/TRO.2025.3600123delete
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Abstract

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This work presents a motion retargeting approach for legged robots, aimed at transferring the dynamic and agile movements to robots from source motions. In particular, we guide the imitation learning procedures by transferring motions from source to target, effectively bridging the morphological disparities while ensuring the physical feasibility of the target system. In the first stage, we focus on motion retargeting at the kinematic level by generating kinematically feasible whole-body motions from keypoint trajectories. Following this, we refine the motion at the dynamic level by adjusting it in the temporal domain while adhering to physical constraints. This process facilitates policy training via reinforcement learning, enabling precise and robust motion tracking. We demonstrate that our approach successfully transforms noisy motion sources, such as hand-held camera videos, into robot-specific motions that align with the morphology and physical properties of the target robots. Moreover, we demonstrate terrain-aware motion retargeting to perform BackFlip on top of a box. We successfully deployed these skills to four robots with different dimensions and physical properties in the real world through hardware experiments.
Keywords:
Legged robots
learning from demonstration
motion control
motion retargeting

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IEEE Transactions on Robotics
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Korea University
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