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PAC-MAN: Perception-Aware CBF-RL for Whole-Body Safety in Humanoid Dodgeball
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers developed PAC-MAN, a framework combining control-barrier functions with reinforcement learning to enable humanoid robots to dodge incoming objects using only onboard camera vision.
- Why it matters
- Roboticists building real-time safety systems for humanoids need practical perception-aware methods that work with limited onboard sensors rather than perfect state information.
- Watch out
- The approach succeeds on 95% of throws in testing but relies on semantic segmentation and specific camera setups; performance degrades significantly without accurate ball tracking or privileged information.
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