Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan
Online ISSN : 1884-7145
Print ISSN : 0289-1824
ISSN-L : 0289-1824
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Landing Control of Foot with Springs for Walking on Rough Terrain with Unknown Landing Height
Moyuru YamadaShigenori SanoNaoki UchiyamaShoji Takagi
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2010 Volume 28 Issue 9 Pages 1137-1143

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Landing control is one of the important issues for biped walking robot, because robots are expected to walk on not only flat known surfaces but also unknown and uneven terrain for working at various fields. This paper presents a new controller design for a robotic foot to land on unknown terrain. The robotic foot considered in this study equips springs to reduce the impact force at the foot landing. There are two objectives in the landing control; achieving the desired terrain reaction force and positioning the foot on unknown terrain. To achieve these two objectives simultaneously by adjusting the foot position, we propose a PI force controller with a desired foot position, which guarantees the robust stability of control system with respect to terrain variance, and exact positioning of the foot to unknown terrain. The effectiveness of the proposed controller is demonstrated by simulation and experimental results.
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