鳥の羽ばたきに着想を得た推力支援二足歩行ロボットのQP-MPC制御
Bio-inspired Thrust-Assisted Trotting on a legged-Aerial Robot via Real-Time QP-MPC
推力装置付き二足ロボットHarpyにQPベースのモデル予測制御を実装し、500Hzで接地力と推力ベクトルを同時制御して推力支援トロット歩行を実現した。
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著者: Shreyansh Pitroda, Eric Sihite, Alireza Ramezani, Morteza Gharib
分類: cs.RO
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This paper presents the hardware implementation of a quadratic program-based controller on Harpy: thruster-assisted bipedal robot to perform thruster-assisted trotting. This is inspired by wing-assisted locomotion observed in birds such as the chukar partridge, which employ thrust vectoring to manipulate the ground reaction force. The proposed controller formulates the thruster-assisted spring-loaded inverted pendulum dynamics as a condensed QP-based model predictive control problem, enabling simultaneous regulation of ground contact force and active thrust vectoring at 500 Hz. A decoupled control architecture is used, where the robot's sagittal dynamics are controlled using QP-MPC while the frontal dynamics is regulated using a cascade orientation stabilization controller. Two experiments were conducted with different forward reference velocities of 0 m/s and 0.1 m/s. While the instantaneous velocity oscillates, the mean velocities can track their respective reference. Additionally, joint tracking error remains within 1 deg while tracking the desired leg length given by the leg trajectory controller and desired swing trajectory given by Raibert's heuristic. The QP-MPC problem is consistently solved with 0.18ms, which is well within the 2ms computation budget while satisfying the GRF friction cone constraint.