Multimodal Locomotion and Operation for Biomimetic Legged Robots
April 1, 2025
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This project studies heterogeneous reconfiguration and multimodal locomotion for biomimetic legged robots.
My work focuses on multimodal control algorithm development. I expanded the command space for multimodal motion, designed implicit state estimation with a variational autoencoder, trained reinforcement-learning policies for multimodal locomotion, and supported sim-to-real deployment.
The current capability targets complex-terrain walking, fall recovery, quadruped crawling, vehicle riding and separation, and other mode transitions on legged robot platforms.

Authors
Junhang Lai
(he/him)
Ph.D. Candidate in Robotics
Junhang Lai is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Intelligent Robotics, Beijing Institute of Technology. His work focuses on humanoid and legged robot locomotion, motion planning and control, reinforcement learning, simulation-to-real deployment, and embodied intelligence systems.