Title
Dynamic Legged Manipulation of a Ball Through Multi-Contact Optimization
Abstract
The feet of robots are typically used to design locomotion strategies, such as balancing, walking, and running. However, they also have great potential to perform manipulation tasks. In this paper, we propose a model predictive control (MPC) framework for a quadrupedal robot to dynamically balance on a ball and simultaneously manipulate it to follow various trajectories such as straight lines, sinusoids, circles and in-place turning. We numerically validate our controller on the Mini Cheetah robot using different gaits including trotting, bounding, and pronking on the ball.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341218
IROS
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chenyu Yang100.34
Bike Zhang212.08
Jun Zeng301.01
Ayush Agrawal453.90
Koushil Sreenath502.70