10 accepted papers
The paper addresses the static balancing and walking of elastically actuated legged robots. The control is realized by commanding the motor positions only and exploiting the bijective relation between motor and link positions at equilibrium under static external forces. The approach is formulated in…
Humanoid robots typically display locomotion patterns that include walking with flat foot-ground contact, and knees slightly bent. However, analysis of human gait indicate that several physiological mechanisms like stretched knees, heel-strike and toe push-off increase the step length and energetic…
Balancing is a critical feature for a robot interacting with an unstructured environment. The balancing control should account for unknown perturbation forces that might destabilize the robot when performing the intended tasks. In the case of humanoid robots this challenge is higher due to the inher
Robotic teleoperation is a key technology for a wide variety of fields. Teleoperating a humanoid in particular is essential as it allows the user to act remotely on an interface designed especially for humans, e.g., in a space station, or operating tools and machinery in disaster scenarios. This pap…
Reliable and robust balancing controllers are key elements of whole-body control frameworks for humanoid robots. Passivity-based balancing controllers have been proposed and tested successfully in various scenarios involving different types of ground surfaces. This letter extends the passivity consi
This paper proposes an integration of multi-body and actuator control for multi-contact balancing for robots with highly elastic joints. Inspired by the structure preserving control concept for series-elastic fixed-base robots, the presented approach aims to minimize the control effort by keeping th…
This paper presents a new method for planning and controlling dynamic multi-contact motions for humanoid robots. Our motion planner takes a sequence of multi-contact stances and generates closed-form reference trajectories for the robot center of mass (CoM) position, velocity, and acceleration, base…
Introducing humanoid robots in areas where space is limited, for example in search-and-rescue scenarios or industrial manufacturing, represents a huge challenge, especially when the environment is cluttered and unknown. The robot should be capable of utilizing multiple contact points distributed acr…
Legged humanoid robots need to be able to perform a variety of tasks including interaction with the environment while maintaining the balance. The external wrenches, which arise from the physical interaction, must be taken into account in order to achieve robust and compliant balancing. This work pr
Humanoid robots that need to traverse constrained and uncertain environments require a suitable combination of perception, planning and control. This paper presents an integrated pipeline that allows the robot to autonomously acquire visual information, define step locations, compute feasible multi-…