Robust Bipedal Locomotion: Leveraging Saltation Matrices for Gait Optimization

09/21/2022
by   Maegan Tucker, et al.
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The ability to generate robust walking gaits on bipedal robots is key to their successful realization on hardware. To this end, this work extends the method of Hybrid Zero Dynamics (HZD) – which traditionally only accounts for locomotive stability via periodicity constraints under perfect impact events – through the inclusion of the saltation matrix with a view toward synthesizing robust walking gaits. By jointly minimizing the norm of the extended saltation matrix and the torque of the robot directly in the gait generation process, we show that the synthesized gaits are more robust than gaits generated with either term alone; these results are shown in simulation and on hardware for both the AMBER-3M planar biped and the Atalante lower-body exoskeleton (both with and without a human subject). The end result is experimental validation that combining saltation matrices with HZD methods produces more robust bipedal walking in practice.

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