• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.131-140
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• 2005

Fault-tolerant gait generation of a hexapod robot with crab walking is proposed. The considered fault is a locked joint failure, which prevents a joint of a leg from moving and makes it locked in a known position. Due to the reduced workspace of a failed leg, fault-tolerant crab walking has a limitation in the range of heading direction. In this paper, an accessible range of the crab angle is derived for a given configuration of the failed leg and, based on the principles of fault-tolerant gait planning, periodic crab gaits are proposed in which a hexapod robot realizes crab walking after a locked joint failure, having a reasonable stride length and stability margin. The proposed crab walking is then applied to path planning on uneven terrain with positive obstacles. i.e., protruded obstacles which legged robots cannot cross over but have to take a roundabout route to avoid. The robot trajectory should be generated such that the crab angle does not exceed the restricted range caused by a locked joint failure.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.943-951
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• 2003

A strategy for fault-tolerant gaits of autonomous legged robots is proposed. A legged robot is considered to be fault tolerant with respect to a given failure if it is guaranteed to be capable of walking maintaining its static stability after the occurrence of the failure. The failure concerned in this paper is a locked joint failure for which a joint in a leg cannot move and is locked in place. If a failed joint is locked, the workspace of the resulting leg is constrained, but legged robots have fault tolerance capability to continue static walking. An algorithm for generating fault-tolerant gaits is described and, especially, periodic gaits are presented for forward walking of a hexapod robot with a locked joint failure. The leg sequence and the formula of the stride length are analytically driven based on gait study and robot kinematics. The transition procedure from a normal gait to the proposed fault-tolerant gait is shown to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed scheme.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제54권9호
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• pp.547-555
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• 2005

A fault-tolerant gait of multi-legged robots with static walking is a gait which can maintain gait stability and continue its walking against an occurrence of a leg failure. This paper proposes fault-tolerant gait planning of a quadruped robot walking over a rough planar terrain. The considered fault is a locked joint failure, which prevents a joint of a leg from moving and makes it locked in a known position. In this Paper, two-phase discontinuous gaits are presented as a new fault-tolerant gait for quadruped robots suffering from a locked joint failure. By comparing with previously developed one-phase discontinuous gaits, it is shown that the proposed gait has great advantages in gait performance such as the stride length and terrain adaptability. Based on the two-phase discontinuous gait, quasi follow-the-leader(FTL) gaits are constructed which enable a quadruped robot to traverse two-dimensional rough terrain after an occurrence of a locked joint failure. During walking, two front legs undergo the foot adjustment procedure for avoiding stepping on forbidden areas. The Proposed wait planning is verified by using computer graphics simulations.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.689-695
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• 2003

Fault-tolerance is an important design criterion for robotic systems operating in hazardous or remote environments. This paper addresses the issue of tolerating a locked joint failure in gait planning for hexapod walking machines which have symmetric structures and legs in the form of an articulated arm with three revolute joints. A locked joint failure is one for which a joint cannot move and is locked in place. If a failed joint is locked, the workspace of the resulting leg is constrained, but hexapod walking machines have the ability to continue static walking. A strategy of fault-tolerant tripod gait is proposed and, as a specific form, a periodic tripod gait is presented in which hexapod walking machines have the maximum stride length after a locked failure. The adjustment procedure from a normal gait to the proposed fault-tolerant gait is shown to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed scheme.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.707-711
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• 1999

In this paper, an algorithm of fault tolerant gaits for a quadruped robot is proposed for the purpose of tolerating a locked joint failure. The robot can continue its walking after a locked failure occurs to a joint of a leg by the proposed algorithm. In particular, a periodic gait is proposed as a special form of the proposed algorithm and its existence and efficiency are analytically proven.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제53권8호
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• pp.585-593
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• 2004

Fault-tolerant gait planning in legged locomotion is to design gaits with which legged robots can maintain static stability and motion continuity against a failure in a leg. For planning a robust and deadlock-free fault-tolerant gait, kinematic constraints caused by a failed leg should be closely examined with respect to remaining mobility of the leg. In this paper, based on the authors's previous results, deadlock avoidance scheme for fault-tolerant gait planning is proposed for a hexapod robot walking over even terrain. The considered fault is a locked joint failure, which prevents a joint of a leg from moving and makes it locked in a known position. It is shown that for guaranteeing the existence of the previously proposed fault-tolerant tripod gait of a hexapod robot, the configuration of the failed leg must be within a range of kinematic constraints. Then, for coping with failure situations where the existence condition is not satisfied, the previous fault-tolerant tripod gait is improved by including the adjustment of the foot trajectory. The foot trajectory adjustment procedure is analytically derived to show that it can help the fault-tolerant gait avoid deadlock resulting from the kinematic constraint and does not make any harmful effect on gait mobility. The post-failure walking problem of a hexapod robot with the normal tripod gait is addressed as a case study to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권3호
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• pp.614-620
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• 2009

The force distribution in multi-legged robots is a constrained, optimization problem. The solution to the problem is the set points of the leg contact forces for a particular system task. In this paper, an efficient and general formulation of the force distribution problem is developed using linear programming. The considered walking robot is a quadruped robot with a locked-joint failure, i.e., a joint of the failed leg is locked at a known place. For overcoming the drawback of marginal stability in fault-tolerant gaits, we define safety margin on friction constraints as the objective function to be maximized. Dynamic features of locked-joint failure are represented by equality and inequality constraints of linear programming. Unlike the former study, our result can be applied to various forms of walking such as crab and turning gaits. Simulation results show the validity of the proposed scheme.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 기구학적 구속조건을 고려한 육각 보행 로봇의 새로운 내고장성 걸음새를 제안한다. 본 논문에서 고려하고 있는 고장은 관절고착고장으로 로봇 다리의 관절 하나가 어떤 위치에 고착되어서 보행이 끝날 때까지 움직일 수 없는 상태를 말한다. 본 논문에서는 먼저 육각 보행 로봇의 직선 보행을 위한 기존의 내고장성 걸음새가 고장 난 다리의 기구학적 구속조건에 따라서 교착 상태에 빠질 수도 있음을 해석적으로 증명한다. 그런 다음 이러한 교착 상태를 회피하기 위해서 새로운 내고장성 걸음새 계획을 제안한다. 제안하는 내고장성 걸음새는 다리의 궤적을 변경함으로써 고장 난 다리가 야기하는 교착 상태에서 벗어날 수 있으며, 기존 내고장성 걸음새의 다리 움직임 순서와 보폭을 그대로 유지한다. 제안한 걸음새 계획의 우수성을 입증하기 위해서 평탄 지형에서 정상적인 걸음새로 걷고 있는 육각 보행 로봇이 고장이 일어난 후 제안한 걸음새 계획을 이용하여 교착 상태에서 벗어나 내고장성 걸음새로 전이하는 사례 연구도 기술한다.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.19-27
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• 2006

본 논문은 사족 보행 로봇에 대한 내고장성 걸음새의 안정여유도를 개선하는 방법을 논한다. 기존에 제안되었던 재고장성 걸음새는 사족 보행 로봇이 다리 고장이 발생한 후에도 보행을 계속할 수 있게 하였다. 하지만 내고장성 걸음새가 임계 안정여유도를 가지므로 몸체 무게중심의 위치가 순차적으로 바뀔 때에는 걸음새가 불안정해질 수 있다는 약점을 지니고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 약점을 극복하기 위해서 양(陽)으로 안정여유도를 가지는 내고장성 걸음새를 관절고착고장에 대해서 제안한다. 관절고착고장은 로봇 다리의 관절 하나가 한 지점에 고착되어 더 이상 움직일 수 없는 상태를 말한다. 양의 안정여유도는 걸음새 동작 과정에서 한 다리가 이동하기 전에 지지 다리들의 위치를 조정함으로써 얻어질 수 있다. 제안된 걸음새의 우수성을 입증하기 위해서 안정여유도, 보폭 등의 매개 변수들을 중심으로 기존 걸음새와 성능 비교를 수행한다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제55권7호
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• pp.319-326
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• 2006

This paper proposes a novel fault-tolerant gait for Quadruped robots using energy stability margins. The previously developed fault-tolerant gaits for quadruped robots have a drawback of having marginal stability margin, which may lead to tumbling. In the process of tumbling, the potential energy of the center of gravity goes through a maximum. The larger the difference between the potential energy of the center of gravity of the initial position and that of this maximum, the less the robot tumbles. Hence this difference of potential energy, dubbed as Energy Stability Margin (ESM), can be regarded as the stability margin. In this paper, a novel fault-tolerant gait is presented which gives positive ESM to a quadruped robot suffering from a locked joint failure. Positive ESM is obtained by adjusting foot positions between leg swing sequences. The advantage of the proposed fault-tolerant gait is demonstrated in a case study where a quadruped robot with a failed leg walks on a even slope.