4 accepted papers
Autonomous navigation in dynamic and unknown environments requires real-time path planning. Solving the path planning problem for bipedal locomotion quickly and robustly is one of the main challenges in making humanoid robots competitive against mobile platforms. In this letter, we propose strategie
Collision-free walking in cluttered environments is still an open issue for humanoids. Most current approaches use heuristics with large safety margins to plan the robot's motion. That way, the chance of collisions can be greatly reduced but the robot movements are artificially limited. In this cont
In this paper we present a step-planner embedded in a framework which enables a humanoid robot to navigate among obstacles, exploiting its overall capacities. The system allows the robot to react to changes of user input or changes in a dynamic environment in real-time while walking at reasonable sp…
This paper introduces a new state estimator for biped robots fusing encoder, inertial and force torque measurements. The estimator is implemented as a Kalman filter that uses the dynamical model of the linear inverted pendulum with the center of mass (CoM) state as output. In order to compensate for…