Title
Motion control of a brachiation robot
Abstract
The brachiation robot is a mobile robot which dynamically moves from branch to branch like a long-armed ape, swinging its body like a pendulum. Apes can learn such dynamic behaviors by trial and errors. In such fast motion, feedforward control is dominant and our brachiation robot generates feedforward control inputs by the proposed heuristic learning method. Also, the robot controls its swinging amplitude by the method based on a principle of parametric excitation. Experimental results show that the proposed method enables the robot to catch its target and to perform locomotion from any initial state.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1016/0921-8890(96)00002-4
ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
feedforward control,motion control,robot control,mobile robot
Robot control,Motion control,Brachiation,Simulation,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Pendulum,Robotics,Mobile robot,Feed forward
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
1-2
0921-8890
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.76
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Toshio Fukuda12723818.58
Fuminori Saito213232.23