Juan Alvarez-Padilla

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Motion planning and robot control · 50% Legged, aerial and field robots · 50%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Robotics › Legged, aerial and field robots
legged robots
0.912025
Real-Time Whole-Body Control of Legged Robots with Model-Predictive Path Integral Control · ICRA 2025
Robotics › Legged, aerial and field robots › legged robots
legged robot locomotion
0.912025
Real-Time Whole-Body Control of Legged Robots with Model-Predictive Path Integral Control · ICRA 2025
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control › robot control › model predictive control
sampling-based model predictive control
0.912025
Real-Time Whole-Body Control of Legged Robots with Model-Predictive Path Integral Control · ICRA 2025
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control
whole-body control
0.912025
Real-Time Whole-Body Control of Legged Robots with Model-Predictive Path Integral Control · ICRA 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

mujoco simulation · 0.9model predictive path integral control · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Real-Time Whole-Body Control of Legged Robots with Model-Predictive Path Integral Control
abstract
This paper presents a system for enabling real-time synthesis of whole-body locomotion and manipulation policies for real-world legged robots. Motivated by recent advancements in robot simulation, we leverage the efficient parallelization capabilities of the MuJoCo simulator on a multi-core CPU to achieve fast sampling over the robot state and action trajectories. Our results show surprisingly effective real-world locomotion and manipulation capabilities with a very simple control strategy. We demonstrate our approach on several hardware and simulation experiments: robust locomotion over flat and uneven terrains, climbing over a box whose height is comparable to the robot, and pushing a box to a goal position. To our knowledge, this is the first successful deployment of whole-body sampling-based MPC on real-world legged robot hardware. Experiment videos and code can be found at: whole-body-mppi.github.io.
Juan Alvarez-Padilla, John Z. Zhang, Sofia Kwok, John M. Dolan, Zachary Manchester
ICRA1