Title
A novel approach for humanoid push recovery using stereopsis.
Abstract
Push recovery is one of the most challenging problems for the current humanoid robots. The importance of push recovery can be well observed in the real environment. The critical issue for a humanoid is to maintain and recover its balance against any disturbances. In this research a new stereovision approach is proposed to estimate the robot deviation angle and consequently, the movement of center of mass of the robot is calculated. Then, two novel strategies have been devised to recover the balance of the humanoid which are called "knee strategy" and "knee-hip strategy." Also, a mathematical model validates the efficiency of the proposed strategies as demonstrated in the paper. Experiments have been conducted on a humanoid robot and demonstrate that the predicted robot deviation angle, using stereovision technique, converges to the actual deviation angle. Stable regions of proposed strategies illustrate that the humanoid can recover its stability in a robust manner. Vision-based estimation also shows a higher correlation to actual deviation angle and a lower fluctuation compared with the output of the acceleration sensor.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1017/S0263574713000684
ROBOTICA
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Humanoid robot,Push recovery,Stereovision technique,Optical flow,Deviation angle,Knee strategy,Knee-hip strategy
Journal
32
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0263-5747
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammad-Ali Nikouei Mahani120.70
Shahram Jafari2194.31
Hadi Rahmatkhah300.34