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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS
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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2023.3275384
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Legged locomotion; optimal control; terrain perception
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Dynamic locomotion in rough terrain requires accurate foot placement, collision avoidance, and planning of system dynamics. Optimizing these motions and interactions in the presence of imperfect perception is challenging. This study presents a perception, planning, and control pipeline that optimizes robot motions in real time by using a sequence of constraints, precomputed components, and a combination of optimization techniques. The proposed method is validated in simulation and on a quadruped platform, achieving state-of-the-art dynamic climbing.
Dynamic locomotion in rough terrain requires accurate foot placement, collision avoidance, and planning of the underactuated dynamics of the system. Reliably optimizing for such motions and interactions in the presence of imperfect and often incomplete perceptive information is challenging. We present a complete perception, planning, and control pipeline, which can optimize motions for all degrees of freedom of the robot in real time. To mitigate the numerical challenges posed by the terrain, a sequence of convex inequality constraints is extracted as local approximations of foothold feasibility and embedded into an online model-predictive controller. Steppability classification, plane segmentation, and a signed distance field are precomputed per elevation map to minimize the computational effort during the optimization. A combination of multiple-shooting, real-time iteration, and a filter-based line search is used to solve the formulated problem reliably and at high rate. We validate the proposed method in scenarios with gaps, slopes, and stepping stones in simulation and experimentally on the ANYmal quadruped platform, resulting in state-of-the-art dynamic climbing.
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