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Biped gait controller for large speed variations, combining reflexes and a central pattern generator in a neuromuscular model

Van der Noot, Nicolas  
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Ijspeert, Auke J.  
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Ronsse, Renaud
2015
2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Controllers based on neuromuscular models hold the promise of energy-efficient and human-like walkers. However, most of them rely on optimizations or cumbersome hand-tuning to find controller parameters which, in turn, are usually working for a specific gait or forward speed only. Consequently, designing neuromuscular controllers for a large variety of gaits is usually challenging and highly sensitive. In this contribution, we propose a neuromuscular controller combining reflexes and a central pattern generator able to generate gaits across a large range of speeds, within a single optimization. Applying this controller to the model of COMAN, a 95 cm tall humanoid robot, we were able to get energy-efficient gaits ranging from 0.4 m/s to 0.9 m/s. This covers normal human walking speeds once scaled to the robot height. In the proposed controller, the robot speed could be continuously commanded within this range by changing three high-level parameters as linear functions of the target speed. This allowed large speed transitions with no additional tuning. By combining reflexes and a central pattern generator, this approach can also predict when the next strike will occur and modulate the step length to step over a hole.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ICRA.2015.7140079
Author(s)
Van der Noot, Nicolas  
Ijspeert, Auke J.  
Ronsse, Renaud
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

IEEE

Published in
2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Start page

6267

End page

6274

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Seattle, WA, USA

26-30 May 2015

Available on Infoscience
January 23, 2016
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