An efficiently solvable quadratic program for stabilizing dynamic locomotion
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Kuindersma, Scott
Permenter, Frank Noble
Tedrake, Russell Louis
Date Issued
May 2014
Journal
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Kuindersma, Scott, Frank Permenter, and Russ Tedrake. “An Efficiently Solvable Quadratic Program for Stabilizing Dynamic Locomotion.” 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (May 2014).
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Abstract
We describe a whole-body dynamic walking controller implemented as a convex quadratic program. The controller solves an optimal control problem using an approximate value function derived from a simple walking model while respecting the dynamic, input, and contact constraints of the full robot dynamics. By exploiting sparsity and temporal structure in the optimization with a custom active-set algorithm, we surpass the performance of the best available off-the-shelf solvers and achieve 1kHz control rates for a 34-DOF humanoid. We describe applications to balancing and walking tasks using the simulated Atlas robot in the DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907230
