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Whole body control (WBC)

Whole-body control (WBC)

Sep 30, 20261 min read

  • terminology
  • humanoid
  • control

One-line meaning

Coordinating the robot’s body, contacts, and joint motions to satisfy a movement task under physical constraints.

Nuance

The term covers optimization-based controllers and learned policies; inspect the actual command input, contact handling, rate, and balance mechanism.

Related concepts

  • Tracking policy
  • Motion retargeting
  • loco-manipulation

Sources

  • NVIDIA GR00T WholeBodyControl documentation.

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  • Vision-language-action model (VLA)
  • Tracking policy
  • Motion retargeting
  • Whole-body manipulation / loco-manipulation
  • Residual policy
  • Impedance control
  • Humanoid motion and control
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