Whole-Body Control with Motion/Force Transmissibility for Parallel-Legged Robot

09/15/2021
by   Jiajun Wang, et al.
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Whole-body control (WBC) has been applied to the locomotion of legged robots. However, current WBC methods have not considered the intrinsic features of parallel mechanisms, especially motion/force transmissibility (MFT). In this work, we propose an MFT-enhanced WBC scheme. Introducing MFT into a WBC is challenging due to the nonlinear relationship between MFT indices and the robot configuration. To overcome this challenge, we establish the MFT preferable space of the robot and formulate it as a polyhedron in the joint space at the acceleration level. Then, the WBC employs the polyhedron as a soft constraint. As a result, the robot possesses high-speed and high-acceleration capabilities by satisfying this constraint as well as staying away from its singularity. In contrast with the WBC without considering MFT, our proposed scheme is more robust to external disturbances, e.g., push recovery and uneven terrain locomotion. simulations and experiments on a parallel-legged bipedal robot are provided to demonstrate the performance and robustness of the proposed method.

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