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Outdoor rough-terrain locomotion

Legged locomotion capture on uneven outdoor surfaces with synchronized IMU, vision, and LiDAR, including slip and recovery behaviors.

This is a custom capture program for legged locomotion on uneven outdoor terrain. We record synchronized RGB-D, IMU, and LiDAR across gravel, grass, and wet surfaces, deliberately capturing slip, trip, and recovery behaviors. Outdoor footing dynamics, loose substrate, slopes, and surface change, are notoriously hard to simulate, and they are where real locomotion policies lose their footing.

What we collect

Slip, trip, and recovery behaviors on gravel, grass, and wet surfaces, capturing both stable gaits and the disturbances that test balance recovery.

Sensors and modalities

Synchronized RGB-D, IMU, and LiDAR, time-aligned through our multi-sensor synchronization service so terrain perception and body state correspond.

How capture works

A pilot validates rig and terrain labeling, then capture scales across surfaces and conditions following our robotics data collection workflow.

QA and metadata

Episodes carry surface type, slope, weather, and outcome tags. QA covers sync, calibration, and label completeness against agreed acceptance criteria.

Who it is for

Legged robotics teams, including humanoid robotics groups, that need real terrain data. Directly supports sim-to-real data collection by supplying the outdoor conditions simulation gets wrong.

Scenario FAQ

Gravel, grass, wet surfaces, slopes, and loose substrate, the surfaces that change footing dynamics and trigger slips.

Scope your capture program

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