要旨で参照されている関連研究は明示されていないが、DDPやMPCの基礎となる研究として、古典的なDifferential Dynamic Programming (DDP) やModel Predictive Control (MPC) に関する論文が挙げられる。また、制御拘束を扱う手法として、Projected Newton法やAugmented Lagrangian法を用いたDDPの拡張が関連する。さらに、劣駆動脚式ロボットの制御では、Whole-Body Control (WBC) やZero Moment Point (ZMP) ベースの歩行制御などが関連する。具体的な論文名は要旨にないため、これらの一般名を挙げる。
This paper presents a real-time control-constrained Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) framework for underactuated legged robots. To address the limitation of classical DDP in handling control constraints, we propose an Accelerated Projected Gradient (APG)-based control-constrained DDP (ABC-DDP), which efficiently computes constrained solutions and identifies active sets without repeated Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) inversions. A virtual constraint is introduced to integrate control constraints within a feasibility-driven multiple-shooting framework, enabling stable optimization even from dynamically infeasible initializations. The proposed method supports real-time model predictive control (MPC) with short horizons under strong underactuation. Simulation results demonstrate static two-leg standing under external disturbances, along with diverse dynamic motions including slow catwalk, upright walking, and high-speed running within a unified MPC framework. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of static two-leg standing of a quadruped robot achieved using real-time finite-horizon MPC.