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Zachary Olkin

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Preprint Sep 2026

Learning Safe Humanoid Navigation from Reduced Order Models

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 terra...

William D. Compton, Zachary Olkin, Ryan M. Bena et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Sep 2026

Generate, Track, Improve: Perceptive Multi-Skill Humanoid Locomotion with RL-Fine-Tuned Motion Generators

General purpose humanoids require locomotion controllers that are multi-skill, perceptive, dynamic, and robust enough to go anywhere humans can. In this work, we present a two layer locomotion architecture: (1) a perceptive flow matching motion generator plans whole body trajectories from raw depth images while a (2) p...

Zachary Olkin, William D. Compton, Aaron D. Ames · 0 citations
Review Aug 2026

Evolution of humanoid locomotion control.

This survey positions humanoid control at a turning point, converging toward a unified paradigm of physics-guided generative intelligence that integrates optimization, learning, and predictive reasoning.

Yan Gu, Guan-Ya Shi, Fan Shi et al. · 8 citations

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