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Online Multicontact Receding Horizon Planning via Value Function Approximation

Wang, Jiayi
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Kim, Sanghyun
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Lembono, Teguh Santoso
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January 1, 2024
Ieee Transactions On Robotics

Planning multicontact motions in a receding horizon fashion requires a value function to guide the planning with respect to the future, e.g., building momentum to traverse large obstacles. Traditionally, the value function is approximated by computing trajectories in a prediction horizon (never executed) that foresees the future beyond the execution horizon. However, given the nonconvex dynamics of multicontact motions, this approach is computationally expensive. To enable online receding horizon planning (RHP) of multicontact motions, we find efficient approximations of the value function. Specifically, we propose a trajectory-based and a learning-based approach. In the former, namely RHP with multiple levels of model fidelity, we approximate the value function by computing the prediction horizon with a convex relaxed model. In the latter, namely locally guided RHP, we learn an oracle to predict local objectives for locomotion tasks, and we use these local objectives to construct local value functions for guiding a short-horizon RHP. We evaluate both approaches in simulation by planning centroidal trajectories of a humanoid robot walking on moderate slopes, and on large slopes where the robot cannot maintain static balance. Our results show that locally guided RHP achieves the best computation efficiency (95%-98.6% cycles converge online). This computation advantage enables us to demonstrate online RHP of our real-world humanoid robot Talos walking in dynamic environments that change on-the-fly.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TRO.2024.3392154
Web of Science ID

WOS:001218701500002

Author(s)
Wang, Jiayi
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Kim, Sanghyun
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Lembono, Teguh Santoso
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Du, Wenqian
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Shim, Jaehyun
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Samadi, Saeid
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Wang, Ke
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Ivan, Vladimir
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Calinon, Sylvain  
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Vijayakumar, Sethu
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Date Issued

2024-01-01

Publisher

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Robotics
Volume

40

Start page

2791

End page

2810

Subjects

Technology

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Humanoid Robots

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Legged Locomotion

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Multicontact Locomotion

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Optimization And Optimal Control

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LIDIAP  
FunderGrant Number

EU H2020 project Enhancing Healthcare with Assistive Robotic Mobile Manipulation HARMONY

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June 5, 2024
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