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Published · 2026

STATE-NAV: Stability-Aware Traversability Estimation for Bipedal Navigation on Rough Terrain

Ziwon Yoon, Lawrence Y. Zhu, Jingxi Lu, Lu Gan, Ye Zhao

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 2338–2345

STATE-NAV learns locomotion instability from terrain and commanded motion, defines traversability as a stability-aware command velocity, and integrates that velocity into a hierarchical planner. The approach was validated in MuJoCo and on the Digit biped.