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Perceptive Locomotion Through Nonlinear Model-Predictive Control

Grandia, Ruben
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Jenelten, Fabian
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Yang, Shaohui  
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May 29, 2023
Ieee Transactions On Robotics

Dynamic locomotion in rough terrain requires accurate foot placement, collision avoidance, and planning of the underactuated dynamics of the system. Reliably optimizing for such motions and interactions in the presence of imperfect and often incomplete perceptive information is challenging. We present a complete perception, planning, and control pipeline, which can optimize motions for all degrees of freedom of the robot in real time. To mitigate the numerical challenges posed by the terrain, a sequence of convex inequality constraints is extracted as local approximations of foothold feasibility and embedded into an online model-predictive controller. Steppability classification, plane segmentation, and a signed distance field are precomputed per elevation map to minimize the computational effort during the optimization. A combination of multiple-shooting, real-time iteration, and a filter-based line search is used to solve the formulated problem reliably and at high rate. We validate the proposed method in scenarios with gaps, slopes, and stepping stones in simulation and experimentally on the ANYmal quadruped platform, resulting in state-of-the-art dynamic climbing.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TRO.2023.3275384
Web of Science ID

WOS:001005901300001

Author(s)
Grandia, Ruben
Jenelten, Fabian
Yang, Shaohui  
Farshidian, Farbod
Hutter, Marco
Date Issued

2023-05-29

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Robotics
Subjects

Robotics

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Robotics

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legged locomotion

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optimal control

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terrain perception

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rough-terrain

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trajectory optimization

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dynamic locomotion

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motion generation

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iteration scheme

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framework

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implementation

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algorithm

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July 3, 2023
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