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ToggleMimic: A Two-Stage Policy for Text-Driven Humanoid Whole-Body Control.

Weifeng Zheng¹, Shigang Wang¹, Bohua Qian¹

¹School of Automation, Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou 545006, China.

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Summary

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Humanoid robots can now understand and execute natural language commands for multi-task control using ToggleMimic. This imitation learning framework bridges the sim-to-real gap for natural human-robot interaction.

Keywords:

humanoid imitation learning learning-based control policy distillation

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Area of Science:

Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning

Background:

Natural language is crucial for seamless human-robot interaction and integration into daily life.
Current imitation learning methods for robots struggle with high-level semantic instructions and dynamic action switching.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an end-to-end imitation learning framework for generating robotic motions from textual instructions.
To enable language-driven multi-task control in humanoid robots.

Main Methods:

Proposed ToggleMimic, an imitation learning framework combining two-stage policy distillation, cross-attention mechanism, and a gating network.
Policy distillation bridges the sim-to-real gap.
Cross-attention enables interpretable text-to-action mapping.
Gating network improves robustness to linguistic variations.

Main Results:

ToggleMimic demonstrates effectiveness, generalization capability, and robust text-guided control.
Framework successfully generates robotic motions from textual instructions.
Achieved efficient, interpretable, and scalable learning for cross-modal semantic-driven robot control.

Conclusions:

ToggleMimic offers an efficient, interpretable, and scalable learning paradigm for autonomous robot control.
The framework enables robots to understand and execute natural language commands for complex tasks.
This research advances natural language understanding and control in humanoid robots.