Learning Thermal-Aware Locomotion Policies for an Electrically-Actuated Quadruped Robot
Electrically-actuated quadrupedal robots possess high mobility on complex terrains, but their motors tend to accumulate heat under high-torque cyclic loads, potentially triggering overheat protection and limiting long-duration tasks. This work proposes a thermal-aware control method that incorporates motor temperatures into reinforcement learning locomotion policies and introduces thermal-constraint rewards to prevent temperature exceedance. Real-world experiments on the Unitree A1 demonstrate that, under a fixed 3 kg payload, the baseline policy triggers overheat protection and stops within approximately 7 minutes, whereas the proposed method can operate continuously for over 27 minutes without thermal interruptions while maintaining comparable command-tracking performance, thereby enhancing sustainable operational capability.
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