Force-based Active Compliance Control of Hydraulic Quadruped Robot
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https://doi.org/10.13052/ijfp1439-9776.2221Keywords:
Hydraulic quadruped robot, compliance control, multi-rigid body dynamics, hybrid dynamics, co-simulationAbstract
The hydraulically driven quadruped robot has received extensive attention from many scholars due to its high power density and adaptability to unstructured terrain. However, the research on hydraulic quadruped robots based on torque control is not mature enough, especially in the aspect of multi-rigid body dynamics. In this paper, the most commonly used gait trot is selected as the research object. First, the multi-rigid motion equation of the quadruped robot is established by the spin recursion method based on Lie groups. Next, the Lagrange multiplier is used to represent the constraint force to establish the 12-degree-of-freedom inverse dynamics model of the quadruped robot’s stance phase. And the hybrid dynamics method is used to reduce the dimension of the inversion matrix, which simplifies the solution process of the dynamics model. Then, the trajectory of the foot is planned. Through the analysis of the simplified model, it is concluded that the gait cycle and the initial position of the stance phase are important factors affecting the stability of the trot gait. Finally, the controller framework of the quadruped robot is introduced, and the effectiveness of the algorithm designed in this paper is verified through the co-simulation of the trot gait. The co-simulation results show that the inverse dynamics algorithm can be used as the feedforward of the control system, which can greatly reduce the gains of the PD controller; the robot has good compliance and can achieve stable trotting.
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