Title
Robot Dynamics with URDF & CasADi
Abstract
Fast, accurate evaluation of the dynamics parameters is a key ingredient for accurate control, estimation, and simulation of robots. As these are time-consuming to compute by hand, a software library for generating the rigid body dynamics symbolically can be of great use for robotics researchers. In this paper, we propose a library to efficiently compute and evaluate robot dynamics and its derivatives. Based on a URDF description of the robot's kinematics, three major rigid body dynamics algorithms are used to retrieve the dynamics symbolically in the CasADi framework. To validate the numerical accuracy, the numerical evaluation of the solutions are compared against three other well-established rigid body dynamics libraries, namely RBDL, KDL, and PyBullet. We conduct a timing comparison between the libraries, and we show that the evaluation times of the symbolic expressions are at most one order of magnitude higher than the evaluation times of the numerical libraries. Last, it is shown that the evaluation times of the dynamics derivatives remain of the same order as the evaluation times of the dynamics expressions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICCMA46720.2019.8988702
2019 7th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Manipulator Dynamics,Robot Kinematics,Robot Programming
Conference
978-1-7281-3788-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.47
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lill Maria Gjerde Johannessen110.47
Mathias Hauan Arbo220.84
Jan Tommy Gravdahl332743.60