Real-Time Whole-Body MPC for Legged Robots with MuJoCo

Real-Time Whole-Body MPC for Legged Robots with MuJoCo

We show that simple model-predictive controls algorithms such as iLQR can be surprisingly effective at enabling a variety of whole-body control behaviors on high dimensional legged robtots (i.e. quadrupeds and humanoids) in the real world.

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2026
June
PDF Whole-Body Model-Predictive Control of Legged Robots with MuJoCo
John Zhang, Taylor Howell, Zeji Yi, Chaoyi Pan, Guanya Shi, Quannan Qu, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, and Zac Manchester
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Vienna, Austria. (Accepted)

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John Zhang
Optimization, Control, and Robotics
Taylor Howell
Ph.D. in MechE, Stanford. Now at Google DeepMind.
Zac Manchester
Associate Professor
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