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Feedback MPC for Torque-Controlled Legged Robots

Grandia, Ruben
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Farshidia, Farbod
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Ranftl, René
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August 9, 2019
2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

The computational power of mobile robots is currently insufficient to achieve torque level whole-body Model Predictive Control (MPC) at the update rates required for complex dynamic systems such as legged robots. This problem is commonly circumvented by using a fast tracking controller to compensate for model errors between updates. In this work, we show that the feedback policy from a Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) based MPC algorithm is a viable alternative to bridge the gap between the low MPC update rate and the actuation command rate. We propose to augment the DDP approach with a relaxed barrier function to address inequality constraints arising from the friction cone. A frequency-dependent cost function is used to reduce the sensitivity to high-frequency model errors and actuator bandwidth limits. We demonstrate that our approach can find stable locomotion policies for the torque-controlled quadruped, ANYmal, both in simulation and on hardware.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8968251
Author(s)
Grandia, Ruben
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Farshidia, Farbod
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Ranftl, René
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Hutter, Marco
Date Issued

2019-08-09

Journal
2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Start page

4730

End page

4737

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REVIEWED

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OTHER

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NCCR-ROBOTICS  
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2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Macau, China

3-8 Nov. 2019

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October 29, 2019
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