Bipedal Walking with Corrective Actions in the Tilt Phase Space

10/12/2018
by   Philipp Allgeuer, et al.
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Many methods exist for a bipedal robot to keep its balance while walking. In addition to step size and timing, other strategies are possible that influence the stability of the robot without interfering with the target direction and speed of locomotion. This paper introduces a multifaceted feedback controller that uses numerous different feedback mechanisms, collectively termed corrective actions, to stabilise a core keypoint-based gait. The feedback controller is experimentally effective, yet free of any physical model of the robot, very computationally inexpensive, and requires only a single 6-axis IMU sensor. Due to these low requirements, the approach is deemed to be highly portable between robots, and was specifically also designed to target lower cost robots that have suboptimal sensing, actuation and computational resources. The IMU data is used to estimate the yaw-independent tilt orientation of the robot, expressed in the so-called tilt phase space, and is the source of all feedback provided by the controller. Experimental validation is performed in simulation as well as on real robot hardware.

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