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Learning Safe Humanoid Navigation from Reduced Order Models

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 16, 2026 · UTC

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 terrain interactions such as stairs. To overcome this challenge, we decompose the navigation problem into two pieces. First, we train a policy operating on the reduced order dynamics but with full 3D LiDAR observations to navigate complex, multi-story terrain. We then utilize this nav

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