An Input-to-State Stability Perspective on Robust Locomotion

03/17/2023
by   Maegan Tucker, et al.
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Uneven terrain necessarily transforms periodic walking into a non-periodic motion. As such, traditional stability analysis tools no longer adequately capture the ability of a bipedal robot to locomote in the presence of such disturbances. This motivates the need for analytical tools aimed at generalized notions of stability – robustness. Towards this, we propose a novel definition of robustness, termed δ-robustness, to characterize the domain on which a nominal periodic orbit remains stable despite uncertain terrain. This definition is derived by treating perturbations in ground height as disturbances in the context of the input-to-state-stability (ISS) of the extended Poincaré map associated with a periodic orbit. The main theoretic result is the formulation of robust Lyapunov functions that certify δ-robustness of periodic orbits. This yields an optimization framework for verifying δ-robustness, which is demonstrated in simulation with a bipedal robot walking on uneven terrain.

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