Orientation-Aware Model Predictive Control with Footstep Adaptation for Dynamic Humanoid Walking
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Ding, Yanran; Khazoom, Charles; Chignoli, Matthew; Kim, Sangbae
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This paper proposes a model predictive control (MPC) framework for realizing dynamic walking gaits on the MIT Humanoid. In addition to adapting footstep location and timing online, the proposed method can reason about varying height, contact wrench, torso rotation, kinematic limit and negotiating uneven terrains. Specifically, a linear MPC (LMPC) optimizes for the desired footstep location by linearizing the single rigid body dynamics with respect to the current footstep location. A low-level task-space controller tracks the predicted state and control trajectories from the LMPC to leverage the full-body dynamics. Finally, an adaptive gait frequency scheme is employed to modify the step frequency and enhance the robustness of the walking controller. Both LMPC and task-space control can be efficiently solved as quadratic programs (QP), and thus amenable for real-time applications. Simulation studies where the MIT Humanoid traverses a wave field and recovers from impulsive disturbances validated the proposed approach.
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2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) November 28-30, 2022. Ginowan, Japan.
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2022-11-28Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical EngineeringJournal
2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Y. Ding, C. Khazoom, M. Chignoli and S. Kim, "Orientation-Aware Model Predictive Control with Footstep Adaptation for Dynamic Humanoid Walking," 2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Ginowan, Japan, 2022, pp. 299-305.
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