PERA: Plug-in Experts for Robotic Actions in Continual Whole-Body Control

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Original abstract

Motion imitation enables humanoid robots to acquire whole-body skills such as walking and dancing. However, fine-tuning an entire policy for a new skill can affect existing behaviors, while training a separate policy for each skill increases training and maintenance costs. We present PERA, a method for learning new skills by reusing existing motion capabilities. PERA freezes a pretrained mixture-of-experts policy and trains an additional task expert and its routing score using task rewards or teacher-action supervision. In Unitree G1 simulation, each added task module contains approximately 1.03% of the parameters of the base actor. Built on our pretrained policy, PERA successfully completes all ten new tasks. Disabling the expert restores the original computation path of the base policy, which still fully executes all 126 original motions. Enabling the expert also improves the execution of some dance motions not used to train that expert, indicating that its benefits extend beyond its training motions. Experiments with HoloMotion further demonstrate the applicability of PERA to different base policies.

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