Title
Bio-Inspired Locomotion Control With Coordination Between Neural Oscillators
Abstract
Central Pattern Generator (CPG) is used in bipedal locomotion control to provide the basic rhythm signal for actuators. Generally, the CPG is composed of many neural oscillators coupled together. In this paper, the coordination between neural oscillators in CPG is studied to achieve robust rhythm motions. By using the entrainment property of the neural oscillator, we develop a method which uses the difference between oscillator's output and desired output to adjust the inner states of neural oscillators. In the simulation, a CPG structure with coordination between neural oscillators is used to control a 2D bipedal robot. The robot can walk continuously when several external forces are applied on the robot during walking. The method is also implemented on our humanoid robot NUSBIP-III ASLAN for the test of walking forward. With the coordination between neural oscillators, the CPG generated rhythmic and robust control signals which enable the robot to walk forward stably.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1142/S0219843609001929
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANOID ROBOTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Central pattern generator, neural oscillator, coordination, rhythmic motion, bipedal walking, biological inspired approach
Bipedalism,Oscillation,Simulation,Computer science,Control theory,Central pattern generator,Robot,Robust control,Humanoid robot,Actuator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
4
0219-8436
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.68
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weiwei Huang1212.00
Chee-Meng Chew237540.58
Yu Zheng315711.61
Geok-Soon Hong4225.08