Title
MPC-Based Hierarchical Task Space Control of Underactuated and Constrained Robots for Execution of Multiple Tasks
Abstract
This paper proposes an MPC-based controller to efficiently execute multiple hierarchical tasks for underactuated and constrained robotic systems. Existing task-space controllers or whole-body controllers solve instantaneous optimization problems given task trajectories and the robot plant dynamics. However, the task-space control method we propose here relies on the prediction of future state trajectories and the corresponding costs-to-go terms over a finite time-horizon for computing control commands. We employ acceleration energy error as the performance index for the optimization problem and extend it over the finite-time horizon of our MPC. Our approach employs quadratically constrained quadratic programming, which includes quadratic constraints to handle multiple hierarchical tasks, and is computationally more efficient than nonlinear MPC-based approaches that rely on nonlinear programming. We validate our approach using numerical simulations of a new type of robot manipulator system, which contains underactuated and constrained mechanical structures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9304031
CDC
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaemin Lee102.70
Seung Hyeon Bang200.34
Efstathios Bakolas313322.03
Luis Sentis457459.74