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Keep Rollin’—Whole-Body Motion Control and Planning for Wheeled Quadrupedal Robots

Bjelonic, Marko
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Bellicoso, C. Dario
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de Viragh, Yvain
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February 15, 2019
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

We show dynamic locomotion strategies for wheeled quadrupedal robots that combine the advantages of both walking and driving. The developed optimization framework tightly integrates the additional degrees of freedom introduced by the wheels. Our approach relies on a zero-moment point-based motion optimization which continuously updates reference trajectories. The reference motions are tracked by a hierarchical whole-body controller which computes optimal generalized accelerations and contact forces by solving a sequence of prioritized tasks including the nonholonomic rolling constraints. Our approach has been tested on ANYmal, a quadrupedal robot that is fully torque-controlled including the nonsteerable wheels attached to its legs. We conducted experiments on flat and inclined terrains as well as over steps, whereby we show that integrating the wheels into the motion control and planning framework results in intuitive motion trajectories, which enable more robust and dynamic locomotion compared to other wheeled-legged robots. Moreover, with a speed of 4 m/s and a reduction of the cost of transport by 83%, we prove the superiority of wheeled-legged robots compared to their legged counterparts.

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DOI
10.1109/LRA.2019.2899750
Author(s)
Bjelonic, Marko
Bellicoso, C. Dario
de Viragh, Yvain
Sako, Dhionis
Tresoldi, F. Dante
Jenelten, Fabian
Hutter, Marco
Date Issued

2019-02-15

Published in
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Volume

4

Issue

2

Start page

2116

End page

2123

Subjects

Wheels

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Legged locomotion

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Robot kinematics

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Dynamics

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Planning

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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NCCR-ROBOTICS  
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June 4, 2019
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