Awesome Humanoid
Humanoid is one of the most active areas in Awesome Robotics β 1,712 papers in this collection, evaluated on datasets like Unitree G-1, MuJoCo, Humanoid-Bench. A strong starting point is "Kernelized Movement Primitives".
Datasets & benchmarks
Key papers
- Kernelized Movement Primitives (2017)Yanlong Huang, Leonel Rozo, JoΓ£o SilvΓ©rio, et al.17.74
- Extreme Parkour With Legged Robots (2023)Xuxin Cheng, Kexin Shi, Ananye Agarwal, et al.16.21
- Learning Agile Soccer Skills For A Bipedal Robot With Deep Reinforcement Learning (2023)Tuomas Haarnoja, Ben Moran, Guy Lever, et al.16.21
- Dynamic Locomotion For Passive-ankle Biped Robots And Humanoids Using Whole-body Locomotion Control (2019)D. Kim, S. Jorgensen, J. Lee, et al.15.73
- Stair Climbing Stabilization Of The HRP-4 Humanoid Robot Using Whole-body Admittance Control (2018)StΓ©phane Caron, Abderrahmane Kheddar, Olivier Tempier15.70
- GOAL: Generating 4D Whole-body Motion For Hand-object Grasping (2021)Omid Taheri, Vasileios Choutas, Michael J. Black, et al.15.40
- Footstep Planning For Autonomous Walking Over Rough Terrain (2019)Robert J. Griffin, Georg Wiedebach, Stephen McCrory, et al.14.19
- Perpetual Humanoid Control For Real-time Simulated Avatars (2023)Zhengyi Luo, Jinkun Cao, Alexander Winkler, et al.13.84
- From Motor Control To Team Play In Simulated Humanoid Football (2021)Siqi Liu, Guy Lever, Zhe Wang, et al.13.60
- A Convex Model Of Momentum Dynamics For Multi-contact Motion Generation (2016)Brahayam Ponton, Alexander Herzog, Stefan Schaal, et al.13.55
- Overcoming Some Drawbacks Of Dynamic Movement Primitives (2019)Michele Ginesi, Nicola Sansonetto, Paolo Fiorini13.34
- Neuropod: A Real-time Neuromorphic Spiking CPG Applied To Robotics (2019)Daniel Gutierrez-Galan, Juan Pedro Dominguez-Morales, Fernando Perez-Pena, et al.13.34
- Step Timing Adjustment: A Step Toward Generating Robust Gaits (2016)Majid Khadiv, Alexander Herzog, S. Ali. A. Moosavian, et al.13.23
- Online Non-linear Centroidal MPC For Humanoid Robot Locomotion With Step Adjustment (2022)Giulio Romualdi, Stefano Dafarra, Giuseppe L'Erario, et al.13.05
- Active Inference Body Perception And Action For Humanoid Robots (2019)Guillermo Oliver, Pablo Lanillos, Gordon Cheng12.99
- Pose Estimation For Ground Robots: On Manifold Representation, Integration, Re-parameterization, And Optimization (2019)Mingming Zhang, Xingxing Zuo, Yiming Chen, et al.12.99
- Acinoset: A 3D Pose Estimation Dataset And Baseline Models For Cheetahs In The Wild (2021)Daniel Joska, Liam Clark, Naoya Muramatsu, et al.12.87
- Whole-body Geometric Retargeting For Humanoid Robots (2019)Kourosh Darvish, Yeshasvi Tirupachuri, Giulio Romualdi, et al.12.81
- Deep Imitation Learning For Humanoid Loco-manipulation Through Human Teleoperation (2023)Mingyo Seo, Steve Han, Kyutae Sim, et al.12.74
- Merging Position And Orientation Motion Primitives (2020)Matteo Saveriano, Felix Franzel, Dongheui Lee12.47
- A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach For Dynamically Stable Inverse Kinematics Of Humanoid Robots (2018)S Phaniteja, Parijat Dewangan, Pooja Guhan, et al.12.40
- Advancing Humanoid Locomotion: Mastering Challenging Terrains With Denoising World Model Learning (2024)Xinyang Gu, Yen-Jen Wang, Xiang Zhu, et al.12.25
- Tailoring Solution Accuracy For Fast Whole-body Model Predictive Control Of Legged Robots (2024)Charles Khazoom, Seungwoo Hong, Matthew Chignoli, et al.12.25
- Computationally-robust And Efficient Prioritized Whole-body Controller With Contact Constraints (2018)Donghyun Kim, Jaemin Lee, Orion Campbell, et al.12.02
- A Hybrid Learning And Optimization Framework To Achieve Physically Interactive Tasks With Mobile Manipulators (2022)Jianzhuang Zhao, Alberto Giammarino, Edoardo Lamon, et al.12.02
- Demonstration-guided Deep Reinforcement Learning Of Control Policies For Dexterous Human-robot Interaction (2019)Sammy Christen, Stefan Stevsic, Otmar Hilliges11.93
- Momentum Control Of An Underactuated Flying Humanoid Robot (2017)Daniele Pucci, Silvio Traversaro, Francesco Nori11.85
- Learning Arm-assisted Fall Damage Reduction And Recovery For Legged Mobile Manipulators (2023)Yuntao Ma, Farbod Farshidian, Marco Hutter11.67
- Whole-body Humanoid Robot Locomotion With Human Reference (2024)Qiang Zhang, Peter Cui, David Yan, et al.11.67
- Humanoid Self-collision Avoidance Using Whole-body Control With Control Barrier Functions (2022)Charles Khazoom, Daniel Gonzalez-Diaz, Yanran Ding, et al.11.58
- Learning Bipedal Walking For Humanoids With Current Feedback (2023)Rohan Pratap Singh, Zhaoming Xie, Pierre Gergondet, et al.11.49
- PMP: Learning To Physically Interact With Environments Using Part-wise Motion Priors (2023)Jinseok Bae, Jungdam Won, Donggeun Lim, et al.11.39
- Sim-to-real Learning For Humanoid Box Loco-manipulation (2023)Jeremy Dao, Helei Duan, Alan Fern11.29
- Prompt, Plan, Perform: Llm-based Humanoid Control Via Quantized Imitation Learning (2023)Jingkai Sun, Qiang Zhang, Yiqun Duan, et al.11.29
- Idrm: Humanoid Motion Planning With Real-time End-pose Selection In Complex Environments (2016)Yiming Yang, Vladimir Ivan, Zhibin Li, et al.11.29
- Hierarchical Optimization For Whole-body Control Of Wheeled Inverted Pendulum Humanoids (2018)Munzir Zafar, Seth Hutchinson, Evangelos A. Theodorou11.08
- Efficient Humanoid Contact Planning Using Learned Centroidal Dynamics Prediction (2018)Yu-Chi Lin, Brahayam Ponton, Ludovic Righetti, et al.10.97
- Biped Stabilization By Linear Feedback Of The Variable-height Inverted Pendulum Model (2019)StΓ©phane Caron10.74
- Dynamic Complementarity Conditions And Whole-body Trajectory Optimization For Humanoid Robot Locomotion (2022)Stefano Dafarra, Giulio Romualdi, Daniele Pucci10.74
- Kinematic Motion Retargeting Via Neural Latent Optimization For Learning Sign Language (2021)Haodong Zhang, Weijie Li, Jiangpin Liu, et al.10.74
- Unsupervised Contact Learning For Humanoid Estimation And Control (2017)Nicholas Rotella, Stefan Schaal, Ludovic Righetti10.61
- Learning Bipedal Walking On Planned Footsteps For Humanoid Robots (2022)Rohan Pratap Singh, Mehdi Benallegue, Mitsuharu Morisawa, et al.10.61
- Learning Visuotactile Skills With Two Multifingered Hands (2024)Toru Lin, Yu Zhang, Qiyang Li, et al.10.48
- Orbit Characterization, Stabilization And Composition On 3D Underactuated Bipedal Walking Via Hybrid Passive Linear Inverted Pendulum Model (2019)Xiaobin Xiong, Aaron Ames10.35
- Stable Motion Primitives Via Imitation And Contrastive Learning (2023)Rodrigo PΓ©rez-Dattari, Jens Kober10.21
- Inertial Sensor-based Humanoid Joint State Estimation (2016)Nicholas Rotella, Sean Mason, Stefan Schaal, et al.10.21
- Humanoidbench: Simulated Humanoid Benchmark For Whole-body Locomotion And Manipulation (2024)Carmelo Sferrazza, Dun-Ming Huang, Xingyu Lin, et al.10.21
- Benchmarking Potential Based Rewards For Learning Humanoid Locomotion (2023)Se Hwan Jeon, Steve Heim, Charles Khazoom, et al.10.07
- Dynamic Movement Primitive Based Motion Retargeting For Dual-arm Sign Language Motions (2020)Yuwei Liang, Weijie Li, Yue Wang, et al.10.07
- A Benchmarking Of DCM Based Architectures For Position And Velocity Controlled Walking Of Humanoid Robots (2018)Giulio Romualdi, Stefano Dafarra, Yue Hu, et al.10.07
- Design, Analysis And Control Of The Series-parallel Hybrid RH5 Humanoid Robot (2021)Julian Esser, Shivesh Kumar, Heiner Peters, et al.9.92
- NICOL: A Neuro-inspired Collaborative Semi-humanoid Robot That Bridges Social Interaction And Reliable Manipulation (2023)Matthias Kerzel, Philipp Allgeuer, Erik Strahl, et al.9.92
- Capture Steps: Robust Walking For Humanoid Robots (2020)Marcell Missura, Maren Bennewitz, Sven Behnke9.76
- Revisiting Reward Design And Evaluation For Robust Humanoid Standing And Walking (2024)Bart van Marum, Aayam Shrestha, Helei Duan, et al.9.76
- LIKO: Lidar, Inertial, And Kinematic Odometry For Bipedal Robots (2024)Qingrui Zhao, Mingyuan Li, Yongliang Shi, et al.9.61
- Data-efficient And Safe Learning For Humanoid Locomotion Aided By A Dynamic Balancing Model (2019)Junhyeok Ahn, Jaemin Lee, Luis Sentis9.59
- Mixed Reality Teleoperation Assistance For Direct Control Of Humanoids (2024)Luigi Penco, Kazuhiko Momose, Stephen McCrory, et al.9.59
- Online DCM Trajectory Generation For Push Recovery Of Torque-controlled Humanoid Robots (2019)Milad Shafiee, Giulio Romualdi, Stefano Dafarra, et al.9.59
- Universal Actions For Enhanced Embodied Foundation Models (2025)Jinliang Zheng, Jianxiong Li, Dongxiu Liu, et al.9.49
- ASAP: Aligning Simulation And Real-world Physics For Learning Agile Humanoid Whole-body Skills (2025)Tairan He, Jiawei Gao, Wenli Xiao, et al.9.46