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Robot Squid Game: Quadrupedal Locomotion for Traversing Narrow Tunnels

Amir Hossain Raj, Dibyendu Das, Xuesu Xiao

Quadruped robots learn to traverse narrow tunnels by distilling specialized policies from procedurally generated environments into one unified policy.

arxiv:2605.13665 v1 · 2026-05-13 · cs.RO

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By synthesizing diverse tunnel structures during training and distilling navigation strategies into a generalizable policy our method achieves consistent traversal across complex spatial constraints where conventional approaches fail.

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The assumption that policies trained on procedurally generated tunnel geometries will transfer effectively to real-world tunnel configurations without further adaptation or domain randomization beyond what is described.

C3one line summary

A teacher-student RL policy distillation approach combined with procedural tunnel generation enables quadruped robots to traverse narrow tunnels consistently in both simulation and real-world tests.

References

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[1] Learning to navigate sidewalks in outdoor environments, 2022

[2] Bark- our: Benchmarking animal-level agility with quadruped robots.arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.14654, 2023 2023

[3] Learning quadrupedal locomotion over challenging terrain, 2020

[4] Rma: Rapid motor adaptation for legged robots 2021

[5] Learning dynamic bipedal walking across stepping stones, 2022

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arxiv: 2605.13665 · arxiv_version: 2605.13665v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.13665 · pith_short_12: 5YASPIORTRTI · pith_short_16: 5YASPIORTRTIQY2S · pith_short_8: 5YASPIOR

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