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Uneven Terrain Walking with Linear and Angular Momentum Allocation

Uneven terrain walking is hard to achieve for most child-size humanoid robots, as they are unable to accurately detect ground conditions. In order to reduce the demand for ground detection accuracy, a walking control framework based on centroidal momentum allocation is studied in this paper, enablin...

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Autores principales: He, Zhicheng, Piao, Songhao, Leng, Xiaokun, Wu, Yucong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9962814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36850624
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23042027
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Sumario:Uneven terrain walking is hard to achieve for most child-size humanoid robots, as they are unable to accurately detect ground conditions. In order to reduce the demand for ground detection accuracy, a walking control framework based on centroidal momentum allocation is studied in this paper, enabling a child-size humanoid robot to walk on uneven terrain without using ground flatness information. The control framework consists of three controllers: momentum decreasing controller, posture controller, admittance controller. First, the momentum decreasing controller is used to quickly stabilize the robot after disturbance. Then, the posture controller restores the robot posture to adapt to the unknown terrain. Finally, the admittance controller aims to decrease contact impact and adapt the robot to the terrain. Note that the robot uses a mems-based inertial measurement unit (IMU) and joint position encoders to calculate centroidal momentum and use force-sensitive resistors (FSR) on the robot foot to perform admittance control. None of these is a high-cost component. Experiments are conducted to test the proposed framework, including standing posture balancing, structured non-flat ground walking, and soft uneven terrain walking, with a speed of 2.8 s per step, showing the effectiveness of the momentum allocation method.