Title
Multi-contact bipedal robotic locomotion.
Abstract
This paper presents a formal framework for achieving multi-contact bipedal robotic walking, and realizes this methodology experimentally on two robotic platforms: AMBER2 and Assume The Robot Is A Sphere (ATRIAS). Inspired by the key feature encoded in human walking-multi-contact behavior-this approach begins with the analysis of human locomotion and uses it to motivate the construction of a hybrid system model representing a multi-contact robotic walking gait. Human-inspired outputs are extracted from reference locomotion data to characterize the human model or the spring-loaded invert pendulum (SLIP) model, and then employed to develop the human-inspired control and an optimization problem that yields stable multi-domain walking. Through a trajectory reconstruction strategy motivated by the process that generates the walking gait, the mathematical constructions are successfully translated to the two physical robots experimentally.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1017/S0263574715000995
ROBOTICA
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bipedal robotic walking,Human-like locomotion,Multi-contact locomotion,Hybrid zero dynamics,Optimization
Gait,Control theory,Slip (materials science),Control engineering,Robot locomotion,Engineering,Pendulum,Robot,Hybrid system,Optimization problem,Trajectory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
35
5
0263-5747
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.75
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huihua Zhao1325.02
Ayonga Hereid28012.25
Wen-Loong Ma3256.05
Aaron D. Ames41202136.68