Impedance control for body motion of quadruped robot

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Abstract

One of the basic assumptions in the conventional wave gait for a walking robot is that the weight of a leg should be negligible compared to that of body, so that the total gravity center of the robot is always kept inside of the support polygon, not affected by a motion of a leg. In case that a leg is relatively heavy, however, while the gravity center of the body is kept inside of the support polygon, the total gravity center can be out of the support polygon due to moving leg, which causes instability in walking. In this paper, an impedance control for body motion is proposed to make the total gravity center of a quadruped robot track the pre-designed trajectory for the gravity center of the body, so that the walking stability is secured even in case that the weight of a leg has serious influence on the total gravity center of the robot.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Applications for Security, Control and System Engineering - International Conferences, SecTech, CA, CES3 2012, Held in Conjunction with GST 2012, Proceedings
Pages190-197
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 Int. Conf. on SecTech 2012, 2012 Int. Conf. on Control and Automation, CA 2012 and the 2012 Int. Conf. on Circuits, Control, Communication, Electricity, Electronics, Energy, System, Signal and Simulation, Held in Conjunction with GST 2012 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 28 Nov 20122 Dec 2012

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume339 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference2012 Int. Conf. on SecTech 2012, 2012 Int. Conf. on Control and Automation, CA 2012 and the 2012 Int. Conf. on Circuits, Control, Communication, Electricity, Electronics, Energy, System, Signal and Simulation, Held in Conjunction with GST 2012
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju Island
Period28/11/122/12/12

Keywords

  • Gravity center
  • Impedance control
  • Quadruped robot
  • Wave gait

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