Learning Safety-Constrained Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation for Lunar Surface Operations
Robotic systems for lunar surface operations must act autonomously and preserve their own integrity in an environment where failures are unrecoverable and continuous supervision is impossible. This paper presents a Constrained Reinforcement Learning framework for quadrupedal mobile manipulators that learns a single whole-body policy for tracking a 6D end-effector pose specified in task space, with operational limits enforced during learning through a constrained learning mechanism.