Perceptive Locomotion in Rough Terrain – Online Foothold Optimization

Autor: Marco Hutter, Aravind E. Vijayan, Takahiro Miki, Marko Bjelonic, Fabian Jenelten
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5 (4)
ISSN: 2377-3766
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000425596
Popis: Compared to wheeled vehicles, legged systems have a vast potential to traverse challenging terrain. To exploit the full potential, it is crucial to tightly integrate terrain perception for foothold planning. We present a hierarchical locomotion planner together with a foothold optimizer that finds locally optimal footholds within an elevation map. The map is generated in real-time from on-board depth sensors. We further propose a terrain-aware contact schedule to deal with actuator velocity limits. We validate the combined locomotion pipeline on our quadrupedal robot ANYmal with a variety of simulated and real-world experiments. We show that our method can cope with stairs and obstacles of heights up to 33% of the robot’s leg length.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5 (4)
ISSN:2377-3766
Databáze: OpenAIRE