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Control Strategy for Modifiable Bipedal Walking on Unknown Uneven Terrain

  • Lee, Woong-Ki (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University) ;
  • Chwa, Dongkyoung (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University) ;
  • Hong, Young-Dae (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University)
  • Received : 2015.03.02
  • Accepted : 2016.05.02
  • Published : 2016.11.01
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Abstract

Previous walking pattern generation methods could generate walking patterns that allow only straight walking on flat and uneven terrain. They were unable to generate modifiable walking patterns whereby the sagittal and lateral step lengths and walking direction can be changed at every footstep. This paper proposes a novel walking pattern generation method to realize modifiable walking of humanoid robots on unknown uneven terrain. The proposed method employs a walking pattern generator based on the 3-D linear inverted pendulum model (LIPM), which enables a humanoid robot to vary its walking patterns at every footstep. A control strategy for walking on unknown uneven terrain is proposed. Virtual spring-damper (VSD) models are used to compensate for the disturbances that occur between the robot and the terrain when the robot walks on uneven terrain with unknown height. In addition, methods for generating the foot and vertical center of mass (COM) of the 3-D LIPM trajectories are developed to realize stable walking on unknown uneven terrain. The proposed method is implemented on a small-sized humanoid robot platform, DARwIn-OP and its effectiveness is demonstrated experimentally.

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