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Dynamic Locomotion on Slippery Ground

Jenelten, Fabian
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Hwangbo, Jemin
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Tresoldi, Fabian
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July 25, 2019
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Dynamic locomotion on unstructured and uneven terrain is a challenging task in legged robotics. Especially when it comes to slippery ground conditions, common state estimation and control algorithms suffer from the usual no-slip assumption. In fact, there has been only little research on this subject. This paper addresses the problem of slipping by treating slip detection and recovery tasks separately. Our contribution to the former is a probabilistic slip estimator based on aHidden Markov Model. In the second part of this paper, we propose impedance control and friction modulation as useful tools to recover stability during traction loss. We demonstrate the success of our estimation/control architecture by enabling ANYmal, a quadrupedal torque-controllable robot, to dynamically walk over slippery terrain.

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DOI
10.1109/LRA.2019.2931284
Author(s)
Jenelten, Fabian
Hwangbo, Jemin
Tresoldi, Fabian
Bellicoso, C. Dario
Hutter, Marco
Date Issued

2019-07-25

Published in
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Volume

4

Issue

4

Start page

4170

End page

4176

Subjects

Legged locomotion

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Hidden Markov models

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Estimation

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Kinematics

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Probabilistic logic

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Friction

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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NCCR-ROBOTICS  
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October 29, 2019
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