Download or read book Tri Modal Models of Locomotion Applications to Robot Design and Control written by Max Austin and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday animals maneuver through complex unstructured environments provided by the natural world. One way in which we can study these behaviors in animals is by partitioning the natural world into differing domains and analyzing the modes of locomotion employed by animals within them. Though animals appear to achieve multi-modality with apparent ease no robots have yet been able to approach the same degree of modal diversity. Some motivating reasons for this derive from limited understandings of the intersection between domains and how uniting these diverse modes changes the design of mechanisms and control. This work seeks to develop tools to assist with the task of bridging three different domains of legged locomotion. In particular, this work takes its primary focus on developing models which intersect with the aquatic domain, which has been largely unmodeled for legged robotics. To that end, the first thrust of this work entails developing a model that intersects between the scansorial and aquatic domains of legged locomotion. This model is then evaluated by the first legged robot capable of producing both of these forms of locomotion. Following this the a new model is developed to capture the intersection between the aquatic and terrestrial domains, which also serves to evaluate different levels of hydrodynamic complexity. It is shown here that optimizing a simple version of this model the efficiency of hopping in resistive media can be greatly improved and that differing levels of model can show a good degree of accuracy with legged swimming. Finally, some of the models of locomotion are applied to the task of robotic design for dynamically challenging behaviors including: enabling high performance terrestrial gaits on the large robot LLAMA, and enabling multi-modality on a newly designed small scale robot.

Download or read book Bioinspired Legged Locomotion written by Maziar Ahmad Sharbafi and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioinspired Legged Locomotion: Models, Concepts, Control and Applications explores the universe of legged robots, bringing in perspectives from engineering, biology, motion science, and medicine to provide a comprehensive overview of the field. With comprehensive coverage, each chapter brings outlines, and an abstract, introduction, new developments, and a summary. Beginning with bio-inspired locomotion concepts, the book's editors present a thorough review of current literature that is followed by a more detailed view of bouncing, swinging, and balancing, the three fundamental sub functions of locomotion. This part is closed with a presentation of conceptual models for locomotion. Next, the book explores bio-inspired body design, discussing the concepts of motion control, stability, efficiency, and robustness. The morphology of legged robots follows this discussion, including biped and quadruped designs. Finally, a section on high-level control and applications discusses neuromuscular models, closing the book with examples of applications and discussions of performance, efficiency, and robustness. At the end, the editors share their perspective on the future directions of each area, presenting state-of-the-art knowledge on the subject using a structured and consistent approach that will help researchers in both academia and industry formulate a better understanding of bioinspired legged robotic locomotion and quickly apply the concepts in research or products. Presents state-of-the-art control approaches with biological relevance Provides a thorough understanding of the principles of organization of biological locomotion Teaches the organization of complex systems based on low-dimensional motion concepts/control Acts as a guideline reference for future robots/assistive devices with legged architecture Includes a selective bibliography on the most relevant published articles

Download or read book Feedback Control of Dynamic Bipedal Robot Locomotion written by Eric R. Westervelt and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bipedal locomotion is among the most difficult challenges in control engineering. Most books treat the subject from a quasi-static perspective, overlooking the hybrid nature of bipedal mechanics. Feedback Control of Dynamic Bipedal Robot Locomotion is the first book to present a comprehensive and mathematically sound treatment of feedback design for achieving stable, agile, and efficient locomotion in bipedal robots. In this unique and groundbreaking treatise, expert authors lead you systematically through every step of the process, including: Mathematical modeling of walking and running gaits in planar robots Analysis of periodic orbits in hybrid systems Design and analysis of feedback systems for achieving stable periodic motions Algorithms for synthesizing feedback controllers Detailed simulation examples Experimental implementations on two bipedal test beds The elegance of the authors' approach is evident in the marriage of control theory and mechanics, uniting control-based presentation and mathematical custom with a mechanics-based approach to the problem and computational rendering. Concrete examples and numerous illustrations complement and clarify the mathematical discussion. A supporting Web site offers links to videos of several experiments along with MATLAB® code for several of the models. This one-of-a-kind book builds a solid understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of truly dynamic locomotion in planar bipedal robots.

Download or read book Design and Operation of Human Locomotion Systems written by Marco Ceccarelli and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design and Operation of Locomotion Systems examines recent advances in locomotion systems with multidisciplinary viewpoints, including mechanical design, biomechanics, control and computer science. In particular, the book addresses the specifications and requirements needed to achieve the proper design of locomotion systems. The book provides insights on the gait analysis of humans by considering image capture systems. It also studies human locomotion from a rehabilitation viewpoint and outlines the design and operation of exoskeletons, both for rehabilitation and human performance enhancement tasks. Additionally, the book content ranges from fundamental theory and mathematical formulations, to practical implementations and experimental testing procedures. Written and contributed by leading experts in robotics and locomotion systems Addresses humanoid locomotion from both design and control viewpoints Discusses the design and control of multi-legged locomotion systems

Download or read book A General Model of Legged Locomotion on Natural Terrain written by David J. Manko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-10 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic modeling is the fundamental building block for mechanism analysis, design, control and performance evaluation. One class of mechanism, legged machines, have multiple closed-chains established through intermittent ground contacts. Further, walking on natural terrain introduces nonlinear system compliance in the forms of foot sinkage and slippage. Closed-chains constrain the possible motions of a mechanism while compliances affect the redistribution of forces throughout the system. A General Model of Legged Locomotion on Natural Terrain develops a dynamic mechanism model that characterizes indeterminate interactions of a closed-chain robot with its environment. The approach is applicable to any closed-chain mechanism with sufficient contact compliance, although legged locomotion on natural terrain is chosen to illustrate the methodology. The modeling and solution procedures are general to all walking machine configurations, including bipeds, quadrupeds, beam-walkers and hopping machines. This work develops a functional model of legged locomotion that incorporates, for the first time, non-conservative foot-soil interactions in a nonlinear dynamic formulation. The model was applied to a prototype walking machine, and simulations generated significant insights into walking machine performance on natural terrain. The simulations are original and essential contributions to the design, evaluation and control of these complex robot systems. While posed in the context of walking machines, the approach has wider applicability to rolling locomotors, cooperating manipulators, multi-fingered hands, and prehensile agents.

Download or read book Models and Analysis of Locomotion and Gripping in Soft Robots written by Xuance Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent designs of soft robots and nano robots feature locomotion mechanisms that entail orchestrating changes to intrinsic curvature or length to enable the robot's limbs to either stick, adhere, or slip on the robot's workspace. The resulting locomotion mechanism has several features in common with peristaltic locomotion that can be found in the animal world. One of the purposes of this dissertation is to examine the feasibility of, and design guidelines for, a locomotion mechanism that exploits the control of intrinsic curvature on a rough surface featuring stick, slip, and adhesion interaction. Our work complements the ever-increasing body of work on soft robots that is primarily focused on the design and fabrication of these systems. Modeling and analyzing these robots is challenging because of the difficulties in faithfully modeling the flexible nature of their components. The study of locomotion presented in this dissertation is composed of two parts. First, we consider the simplest possible model for a soft robot. The resulting model is a lumped parameter system featuring a pair of mass particles and a spring with a variable natural length. By appropriately varying the natural length as a function of time l0(t), we show how locomotion can be achieved and examine the energy efficiency for a variety of choices of l0(t). We then take the lessons gained from this model and use them to understand the locomotion of a block that is propelled on a rough surface with the aid of a flexible arm. Our analysis of the rod-based model for this system focuses on the development of a structurally stable mechanism to move the block. This analysis exploits recent results on stability of adhered rods that we supplement with a new discretized stability criterion. Beyond locomotion, soft robots have the ability to gently grip and maneuver objects with open-loop kinematic control. Guided by several recent designs and implementations of soft robot hands, we exploit our earlier works on locomotion and analyze a rod-based model for the fingers in the hand of a soft robot. We show precisely how gripping is achieved and how the performance can be affected by varying the system's parameters. The designs of interest feature pneumatic control of the soft robot and we model this actuation as a varying intrinsic curvature profile of the rod. Our work provides a framework for the theoretical analysis of the soft robot and the resulting analysis can also be used to develop some design guidelines.

Download or read book Biped Locomotion written by Miomir Vukobratović and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here for the first time in one book is a comprehensive and systematic approach to the dynamic modeling and control of biped locomotion robots. A survey is included of various approaches to the control of biped robots, and a new approach to the control of biped systems based on a complete dynamic model is presented in detail. The stability of complete biped system is presented for the first time as a highly nonlinear dynamic system. Also included is new software for the synthesis of a dynamically stable walk for arbitrary biped systems, presented here for the first time. A survey of various realizations of biped systems and numerous numerical examples are given. The reader is given a deep insight into the entire area of biped locomotion. The book covers all relevant approaches to the subject and gives the most complete account to date of dynamic modeling, control and realizations of biped systems.

Download or read book Harnessing Compliance in the Design and Control of Running Robots written by Xin Liu and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legged robots have the potential to extend our reach to terrains that challenge the traversal capabilities of traditional wheeled platforms. To realize this potential, diverse legged robot designs have been proposed, and a number of these robots achieved impressive indoor and outdoor terrain mobility. However, combining mobility with energy efficiency is still a challenging task due to the inherently dissipative nature of legged locomotion. Furthermore, legged robots typically operate in regimes where the natural dynamics of the mechanical system imposes strict limitations on the capability of the actuators to regulate its motion. This is especially the case for running, during which the magnitude of the ground reaction force is several times of the body weight due to the prominent dynamic effects of the motion. ☐ Biological systems demonstrate the great potential of utilizing compliant elements in legged locomotion. During running, part of the mechanical energy is recovered by the elastic deformation of muscles and tendons and returned back to the system when it is needed. In addition, by storing muscle work slowly and releasing it rapidly, compliance alleviates the requirement for powerful actuators. Introducing compliance into legged robots, however, is not a straightforward task. Compliance might lead to high frequency oscillations or impede the free motion of the joints. In addition, due to the relatively large stiffness, the behavior of the system is largely governed by the natural dynamics of the spring-mass system. Careful analysis of the natural dynamics is necessary to fully exploit the benefits of compliant elements. ☐ With the objective to close the gap between mobility and efficiency, this thesis explores the applications of both active and passive compliant elements in the design and control of running robots. The thesis begins with reduced-order running models with massless springy legs before delving into higher-dimensional models that constitute more faithful representation of robotic systems. Although these models do not incorporate energy losses due to impacts or damping effects, they can predict important aspects of running, including ground reaction force profiles, center of mass trajectories, and the change of stance duration with respect to speed. Using time-reversal symmetries of the underlying dynamics of these reduced-order models, this thesis states analytic conclusions on the stability of periodic running gaits, which can be used to facilitate controller design. Next, a detailed model with segmented leg and inelastic impact is adopted to study the periodic bounding of quadrupedal robot HyQ. Mimicking the reduced-order models, the controller introduces active compliance into the robot. Stable periodic bounding gaits emerge as the interaction results between the robot and its environment. ☐ Inspired by the complementary benefits of passive and active compliance in energy efficiency and control authority, respectively, we propose in this thesis a novel actuation concept: the switchable parallel elastic actuator (Sw-PEA). This concept relies on adding compliance in parallel with the actuator to reduce both the energy consumption as well as the torque requirement related to running robots. In addition, a mechanical switch is used to disengage the spring when it is not needed to facilitate control of joint movement. The effectiveness of the concept is demonstrated experimentally by monopedal robot SPEAR which is actuated by a Sw-PEA. Overall, this thesis explores the application of active and passive compliant elements in the control and design of running robots, using both numerical simulations as well as experimental evaluations. The result of this thesis points out a promising direction on how to use passive compliant elements in combination with actuators for the development of running robots with both good mobility and energy efficiency.

Download or read book Modeling Control and Simulation of Three dimensional Robotic Systems with Applications to Biped Locomotion written by Yuan-Fang Zheng and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advanced Dynamics Modeling Duality and Control of Robotic Systems written by Edward Y.L. Gu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides detailed fundamental theoretical reviews and preparations necessary for developing advanced dynamics modeling and control strategies for various types of robotic systems. This research book specifically addresses and discusses the uniqueness issue of representing orientation or rotation, and further proposes an innovative isometric embedding approach. The novel approach can not only reduce the dynamic formulation for robotic systems into a compact form, but it also offers a new way to realize the orientational trajectory-tracking control procedures. In addition, the book gives a comprehensive introduction to fundamentals of mathematics and physics that are required for modeling robot dynamics and developing effective control algorithms. Many computer simulations and realistic 3D animations to verify the new theories and algorithms are included in the book as well. It also presents and discusses the principle of duality involved in robot kinematics, statics, and dynamics. The duality principle can guide the dynamics modeling and analysis into a right direction for a variety of robotic systems in different types from open serial-chain to closed parallel-chain mechanisms. It intends to serve as a diversified research reference to a wide range of audience, including undergraduate juniors and seniors, graduate students, researchers, and engineers interested in the areas of robotics, control and applications.

Download or read book Efficient Stable Locomotion in Legged Robots written by Daniel A. Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legged animals have explored more of the Earth's surface than any human designed vehicle. The agility, adaptability, and efficiency found in nature continues to inspire robotics researchers to develop efficient leg designs robust, stable and adaptable control strategies that can rapid changes in the environment. Understanding the dynamics of ground collision and contact is critical to advancing the state of the art of legged robotics and allowing legged robotics to narrow the performance gap with legged animals. Unfortunately modeling the dynamics of collision requires attention not just to whole cycle measures like the coefficient of restitution but also to the transient measures of slip and initiation of chatter. This thesis contributes to the model-based design and control of legged robots by developing compliant contact models for systems where the deformation of the contact bodies is small and the contact forces can be considered to act through a single point. A novel visco-plastic contact model is developed to represent collision dynamics during legged locomotion. The relationship between the model's damping parameter and the coefficient of restitution is formulated using the energetic coefficient which permits energy consistent formulation for collisions that are non-collinear and include slip reversal. Given experimental data of the position and force of the foot, the model parameter estimation is performed with an offline genetic algorithm and an online unscented Kalman filter. The effectiveness of the methods are demonstrated on one-dimensional collisions of a single mass and a mass spring damper system. The methods presented allow for a physics-based study of the effect of leg and foot compliance on the energy efficiency of legged locomotion and of locomotion controllers. An actuated, non conservative, continuous contact SLIP model is developed for greater analysis of dynamics of running. Methodologies for finding passive (and active) gait controllers are of great interest to robotics but for non-conservative models, there are no passively stable fixed points around which to build such controllers. Minimal heuristic controllers are generated for bouncing gait generation which allow for stable hopping in the presence of actuator and ground contact energy losses. Together with the online inverse model parameter estimation, the approach advances robotics toward realizing adaptive optimal efficiency locomotion based on terrain measurements.

Download or read book Biped Locomotion written by Miomir Vukobratovic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here for the first time in one book is a comprehensive and systematic approach to the dynamic modeling and control of biped locomotion robots. A survey is included of various approaches to the control of biped robots, and a new approach to the control of biped systems based on a complete dynamic model is presented in detail. The stability of complete biped system is presented for the first time as a highly nonlinear dynamic system. Also included is new software for the synthesis of a dynamically stable walk for arbitrary biped systems, presented here for the first time. A survey of various realizations of biped systems and numerous numerical examples are given. The reader is given a deep insight into the entire area of biped locomotion. The book covers all relevant approaches to the subject and gives the most complete account to date of dynamic modeling, control and realizations of biped systems.

Download or read book Design and Control of a Planar Robot to Study Quadrupedal Locomotion written by Benmjamin Thomas Krupp and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reducing The Control Burden Of Legged Robotic Locomotion Through Biomimetic Consonance In Mechanical Design And Control written by Caitrin Elizabeth Eaton and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrestrial robots must be capable of negotiating rough terrain if they are to become autonomous outside of the lab. Although the control mechanism offered by wheels is attractive in its simplicity, any wheeled system is confined to relatively flat terrain. Wheels will also only ever be useful for rolling, while limbs observed in nature are highly multimodal. The robust locomotive utility of legs is evidenced by the many animals that walk, run, jump, swim, and climb in a world full of challenging terrain. On the other hand, legs with multiple degrees of freedom (DoF) require much more complex control and precise sensing than wheels. Legged robotic systems are easily hampered by sensor noise and bulky control loops that prohibit the high-speed adaptation to external perturbations necessary for dynamic stability in real time. Low sensor bandwidth can limit the system's reaction time to external perturbations. It is also often necessary to filter sensor data, which introduces significant delays in the control loop. In addition, state estimation is often relied upon in order to compute active stabilizing responses. State estimation requires accurate sensor data, often involving filtering, and can involve additional nontrivial computation such as the pseudo-inversion of fullbody Jacobians. This perception portion of the control burden is all incurred before a response can be planned and executed. These delays can prevent a system from executing a corrective response before instability leads to failure. The present work presents an approach to legged system design and control that reduces both the perception and planning aspects of the online control burden. A commonly accepted design goal in robotics is to accomplish a task with the fewest possible DoF in order to tighten the control loop and avoid the curse of dimensionality.

Download or read book Design and Control of a Biped Locomotion in a Pneumatic Humanoid Robot written by Pramin Artrit and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Locomotion with a Unit modular Reconfigurable Robot written by Stanford University. Computer Science Dept and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unit-modular robot is a robot that is composed of modules that are all identical. Here we study the design and control of unit-modular dynamically reconfigurable robots. This is based upon the design and construction of a robot called Polypod. We further choose statically stable locomotion as the task domain to evaluate the design and control strategy. The result is the creation of many unique locomotion modes.

Download or read book Robot Locomotion Controller Generation Through Human Inspired Optimization written by Matthew Joseph Powell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents an approach to the formal design, optimization and implementation of bipedal robotic walking controllers, with experimental application on two biped platforms. Standard rigid-body modeling is used to construct a hybrid system model of robotic walking; this model estimates the motion of the robot hardware under a given control action. The primary objective of this thesis is the construction of a control law which effects, on the robot, a periodic "walking" behavior. The process begins with examination of human walking data - specifically outputs of human walking - which provide inspiration for the construction of formal walking control laws. These controllers drive the robot to a low-dimensional representation, termed the partial hybrid zero dynamics, which is shaped by the parameters of the outputs describing the human output data. The main result of this paper is an optimization problem that produces a low-dimensional representation that "best" fits the human data while simultaneously enforcing constraints that ensure a stable periodic orbit and constraints which model the physical limitations of the robot hardware. This formal result is demonstrated through simulation and utilized to obtain 3D walking experimentally with an Aldebaran NAO robot and NASA's prototype Leg Testbed robot. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151686