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Learning Energy-Efficient Air--Ground Actuation for Hybrid Robots on Stair-Like Terrain

2026-03-13 · Jiaxing Li, Wen Tian, Xinhang Xu, Junbin Yuan, Sebastian Scherer, Muqing Cao arxiv

Hybrid aerial--ground robots offer both traversability and endurance, but stair-like discontinuities create a trade-off: wheels alone often stall at edges, while flight is energy-hungry for small height gains. We propose an energy-aware reinforcement learning framework that trains a single continuous policy to coordinate propellers, wheels, and tilt servos without predefined aerial and ground modes. We train policies from proprioception and a local height scan in Isaac Lab with parallel environments, using hardware-calibrated thrust/power models so the reward penalizes true electrical energy. The learned policy discovers thrust-assisted driving that blends aerial thrust and ground traction. In simulation it achieves about 4 times lower energy than propeller-only control. We transfer the policy to a DoubleBee prototype on an 8cm gap-climbing task; it achieves 38% lower average power than a rule-based decoupled controller. These results show that efficient hybrid actuation can emerge from learning and deploy on hardware.

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