Overview of VOCALoco framework showing skill prediction and selection

VOCALoco: Viability-Optimized Cost-aware Adaptive Locomotion

VOCALoco predicts the viability and cost of transport for several pretrained locomotion skills from local heightmaps, then executes the safest, most efficient one. It improves robustness on stairs and transfers zero-shot to real hardware.

June 2025 · Stanley Wu and Mohamad H. Danesh and Simon Li and Hanna Yurchyk and Amin Abyaneh and Anas El Houssaini and David Meger and Hsiu-Chin Lin