电动并联六轮足机器人的运动驱动与多模态控制方法

提出一种并联六轮足移动机器人．该机器人设有多模式Stewart型腿结构,其负载能力大,集成了轮式运动和足式运动的优点,可实现足式、轮式、轮足复合式运动．首先,阐述了机器人设计思路,对电动并联六轮足机器人的硬件系统和控制系统进行设计．其次,针对足式运动模式,设计了一套完整的足式“三角”步态和稳定行走算法,该算法可降低足端与地面之间的垂直方向冲击,防止足式运动拖腿或打滑;针对轮式运动模式,设计并介绍了6轮协同控制和轮式协同转向原理;针对轮足复合式运动模式,介绍了变高度、变支撑面、变轮距、主动隔振控制原理,重点分析了主动隔振控制和变轮距控制,可实现主动隔振及姿态平稳控制,提高了机器人在崎岖颠簸地形下的轮足复合式运动的稳定性．最后,对电动并联六轮足机器人的足式、轮式、轮足复合式运动模式进行实验,实验结果验证了本文提出的并联六轮足移动机器人设计的可行性和各运动模式下驱动与控制算法的有效性．     

轮足复合移动机器人运动规划发展现状及关键技术分析

地面移动机器人已经在资源勘探和灾难救援等多领域得到广泛应用,轮足复合机器人能够结合轮式运动速度快、平稳性高和足式运动的高越障性能等多方面优势,在理论创新和工程技术方面均有重要的研究价值.对近年来国内外轮足复合机器人的机械结构进行分析和比较,将轮足机构复合方式分为4类进行列举和总结.针对多模态运动的优势展开分析,列举轮足复合机器人主要采用的运动建模、规划和控制策略,不仅涉及单独的足式运动和轮式运动,同时涉及足端越障、变构型避障、轨迹规划的轮足复合运动.最后对运动规划关键技术进行总结和展望,指出轮足复合移动机器人后续的发展方向、研究思路和所面临的挑战.     

具有悬挂系统的轮腿式机器人设计与分析

设计了一种具有独立悬挂系统和足端缓冲机构的六足轮腿式机器人.该机器人结合了轮式机器人和腿式机器人的优点,同时将汽车的独立悬挂系统的设计思想应用在机器人上,降低了不平整地面对机器人的冲击,并减轻了由此引起的振动,保证了机器人在不同的复杂环境下机身内部环境的稳定.本文对该机器人的机构与结构进行阐述,建立了其运动学模型以及其悬挂系统机构和足端缓冲机构的单自由度振动模型,并对其缓冲机理进行分析对比.通过ADAMS仿真软件在不同地形环境下对其进行动力学仿真分析,验证了在机器人的运动过程中,与足端缓冲机构相比,悬挂系统的缓冲减震效果受地形影响较小,且悬挂系统和足端缓冲机构相结合会比单一缓冲机构具有更好的缓冲减震作用.     

Stability Analysis of a Wheel-Track-Leg Hybrid Mobile Robot

This paper proposes a new wheel-track-leg hybrid robot. The hybrid robot comprises a robot body, four driving mechanisms, four independent track devices, two supporting legs and one wheel lifting mechanism, which can fully benefit different advantages from wheeled, tracked and legged robots to adapt itself to varied landforms (the rough terrain and high obstacle). Based on the symmetrical mechanical structure, locomotion modes of the mobile robot are analyzed. With the coordinate transformation matrix, the center of mass of the robot is described. Moreover, the stability pyramid method is used to analyze on the climbing motion, especially in the hybrid locomotion mode. Through theoretical analysis, simulation and experimental verification, it’s proven that the robot can remain stable in the process of climbing motion.     

一种多模式全向移动机器人攀爬楼梯的步态

针对移动机器人在户外运动中所遇到的台阶、楼梯等复杂地形,设计了一种可攀爬楼梯的多模式全向移动机器人。通过切换运动模态,该机器人既能像传统移动机器人一样快速移动,又具备了足式机器人的越障能力。首先,分析并构建了多模式全向移动机器人的运动学模型;其次,研究了该机器人越障能力和质心位置之间的关系并计算了该机器人可以翻越台阶的...     

Wheeled inverted pendulum type assistant robot: design concept and mobile control

This paper describes the design concept of the human assistant robot I-PENTAR (Inverted PENdulum Type Assistant Robot) aiming at the coexistence of safety and work capability and its mobile control strategy. I-PENTAR is a humanoid type robot which consists of a body with a waist joint, arms designed for safety, and a wheeled inverted pendulum mobile platform. Although the arms are designed low-power and lightweight for safety, it is able to perform tasks that require high power by utilizing its self-weight, which is the feature of a wheeled inverted pendulum mobile platform. I-PENTAR is modeled as a three dimensional robot; with controls of inclination angle, horizontal position, and steering angle to achieve high mobile capability. The motion equation is derived considering the non-holonomic constraint of the two-wheeled mobile robot, and a state feedback control method is applied for basic mobile controls wherein the control gain is calculated by the LQR method. Through several experiments of balancing, linear running, and steering, it was confirmed that the robot could realize stable mobile motion in a real environment by the proposed controller.     

Design and Implementation of a Novel Spherical Mobile Robot

In this paper, the design, modeling and implementation of a novel spherical mobile robot is presented. The robot composes of a spherical outer shell made of a transparent thermoplastic material, two pendulums, two DC motors with gearboxes, two equipments for linear motion and two control units. It possesses four distinct motional modes including: driving, steering, jumping and zero-radius turning. In driving and steering modes, the robot moves along straight and circular trajectories, respectively. The robot performs these motional modes using movable internal masses. In the jumping mode, it can jump over obstacles and in the zero-radius turning mode, the robot can turn with zero-radius to improve the motion flexibility. Furthermore, the attempts to establish the dynamic models of some motional modes are made and finally, the accuracy of the obtained dynamic models is verified by simulation and experimental results.     

Control of an articulated wheeled mobile robot in pipes

We propose a control method in which an articulated wheeled mobile robot moves inside straight, curved and branched pipes. This control method allows the articulated wheeled mobile robot to inspect a larger area. The articulated wheeled mobile robot comprises pitch and yaw joints is and propelled by active wheels attached to the robot. Via the proposed control method, the robot takes on two different shapes; one prevents the robot from slipping inside straight pipes and the other allows movement in a pipe that curves in any direction. The robot is controlled by a simplified model for the robot's joint angles. The joint angles of the robot are obtained by fitting to a continuous curve along the pipe path. In addition, the angular velocity of the robot's active wheels is determined by a simplified model. The effectiveness of the proposed the control method was demonstrated with a physical implementation of the robot, and the robot was able to move inside straight, curved and branched pipes.     

Design,Development, and Mobility Evaluation of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot for Rough Terrain

Omnidirectional vehicles have been widely applied in several areas, but most of them are designed for the case of motion on flat, smooth terrain, and are not feasible for outdoor usage. This paper presents the design and development of an omnidirectional mobile robot that possesses high mobility in rough terrain. The omnidirectional robot consists of a main body with four sets of mobility modules, called an active split offset caster (ASOC). The ASOC module has independently driven dual wheels that produce arbitrary planar translational velocity, enabling the robot to achieve its omnidirectional motion. Each module is connected to the main body via a parallel link with shock absorbers, allowing the robot to conform to uneven terrain. In this paper, the design and development of the ASOC‐driven omnidirectional mobile robot for rough terrain are described. A control scheme that considers the kinematics of the omnidirectional mobile robot is presented. The mobility of the robot is also evaluated experimentally based on a metric called the ASOC mobility index. The mobility evaluation test clarifies a design tradeoff between terrain adaptability and omnidirectional mobility due to the shock absorbers. In addition, an odometry improvement technique that can reduce position estimation error due to wheel slippage is proposed. Experimental odometry tests confirmed that the proposed technique is able to improve the odometry accuracy for sharp‐turning maneuvers.     

Robot teaching system based on hand-robot contact state detection and motion intention recognition

This paper presents a robot teaching system based on hand-robot contact state detection and human motion intent recognition. The system can detect the contact state of the hand-robot joint and extracts motion intention information from the human surface electromyography (sEMG) signals to control the robot's motion. First, a hand-robot contact state detection method is proposed based on the fusion of the virtual robot environment with the physical environment. With the use of a target detection algorithm, the position of the human hand in the color image of the physical environment can be identified and its pixel coordinates can be calculated. Meanwhile, the synthetic images of the virtual robot environment are combined with those of the physical robot scene to determine whether the human hand is in contact with the robot. Besides, a human motion intention recognition model based on deep learning is designed to recognize human motion intention with the input of sEMG signals. Moreover, a robot motion mode selection module is built to control the robot for single-axis motion, linear motion, or repositioning motion by combining the hand-robot contact state and human motion intention. The experimental results indicate that the proposed system can perform online robot teaching for the three motion modes.     

Choosing Your Steps Carefully

Robot walking, while appealing for its resemblance to human motion, is not an obvious choice when both economy and versatility are desired. Wheeled vehicles are surprisingly capable on different terrains and are nearly unbeatable in terms of economy. In specialized situations, legged locomotion may become preferable. But legged locomotion entails inertial and other energetic costs that do not appear in wheeled machines. The force and work requirements of legged locomotion also only appear energetically economical when considering the unique features of the human body and human muscle. The attainment of high economy in a legged robot requires either actuators similar to humans' or discontinuous nonlinear mechanisms that can reduce energetic losses to support a load. The attainment of high versatility indicates that the ZMP is likely to remain applicable, unless serious advances are made in other control theoretical approaches.     

Neural Approximation-based Model Predictive Tracking Control of Non-holonomic Wheel-legged Robots

This paper proposes a neural approximation based model predictive control approach for tracking control of a nonholonomic wheel-legged robot in complex environments, which features mechanical model uncertainty and unknown disturbances. In order to guarantee the tracking performance of wheel-legged robots in an uncertain environment, effective approaches for reliable tracking control should be investigated with the consideration of the disturbances, including internal-robot friction and external physical interactions in the robot’s dynamical system. In this paper, a radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) approximation based model predictive controller (NMPC) is designed and employed to improve the tracking performance for nonholonomic wheel-legged robots. Some demonstrations using a BIT-NAZA robot are performed to illustrate the performance of the proposed hybrid control strategy. The results indicate that the proposed methodology can achieve promising tracking performance in terms of accuracy and stability.

     

轮式机器人分数阶滑模内模速度控制器设计

在不同路面行走过程中,为了提高轮式机器人的响应速度,降低外部扰动对调速系统的影响,改善系统抖振,根据分数阶微积分原理,结合滑模控制与内模控制策略,提出一种分数阶滑模内模控制(Fractional Order Sliding Mode Internal Mode Control,FOSMIMC)新方法,应用于轮式机器人调...     

双闭环策略下非完整轮式机器人鲁棒自适应运动/力协调控制

非完整轮式移动机器人的路径跟踪,需要在保证机器人姿态跟踪精度的同时,增强其地面适应性能.为实现这种运动/力的协调控制目标,本文提出双闭环的控制系统结构:外环能够增加运动精度,内环则可以增强机器人对地面动态摩阻的适应性.同时,考虑到地面摩阻的慢时变性,本文通过构造观测器对其进行估计.在具体算法实现方面,采用反步法在外环构建运动控制器:而在内环,则是应用积分型的滑模技术设计力控制器与观测器.最后,对控制系统进行仿真,仿真结果证明所提出控制方法的有效性.     

小型两栖仿龟机器人多模式运动研究

针对浅滩环境和水下狭窄空间的科研考察、资源勘探等任务,提出一种“腿－多矢量喷水”复合驱动的小型两栖仿龟机器人。通过研究“腿－多矢量喷水”复合式驱动系统的运动机理,设计仿生爬行步态和旋转步态。根据“腿－多矢量喷水”复合驱动机构的变结构特性,提出“H”、“工”和“X”等多模式运动。通过机器人水中运动学建模,建立基于实时动态推力矢量分配优化机制的水中3维自主运动控制方法。最后搭建机器人原型机,陆地上的多地形运动实验验证了机器人在非结构化浅滩环境中的适应能力强,水中运动控制实验验证了两栖机器人多模式运动控制的灵活性和可行性。     

A model-based fault diagnosis scheme for wheeled mobile robots

In this paper, a fault diagnosis scheme for wheeled mobile robots is presented. In the fault detection module, a nonlinear observer is designed based on the mobile robot dynamic model. A fault is detected when at least one of the residuals exceeds its corresponding threshold. After the fault is detected, the fault isolation module is activated to isolate three types of fault: right wheel fault, left wheel fault, and other changing dynamic parameter faults. Three simulation examples are performed to show the effect of each fault to the tracking performance of mobile robot in a real situation. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach for fault detection and isolation in wheeled mobile robots.     

基于滑模变结构的轮式机器人运动误差控制器设计

面对当前使用的基于黎卡提微分方程、综合位姿误差控制优化仿真方法受到不确定性因素干扰,导致控制误差较大的问题,提出了基于滑模变结构的轮式机器人运动误差控制器设计。使用双框架陀螺仪,为控制器提供电力。采用FB900C/E 角位变送器,将交流信号转换为角位移输出。使用TMS320F2812的DSP控制器,负责控制整个控制器的数据传输以及电平转换。充分考虑相变量输入的n阶线形数据,设计滑模变结构控制律,计算滑模变结构控制滑动面。在滑模变结构模态控制阶段,构建滑模变结构模态控制阶段的运动方程矩阵。对滑模切换面强制状态点运动,通过控制目标实现稳定控制。对DSP程序控制流程进行设计,将基于滑模变结构的误差控制结果传递到电位器上,并将运行数据发送到主机,由此完成轮式机器人运动误差控制。由实验结果可知,该控制器通过自适应调整参数后,滑模抖振得到明显消除,且最大控制误差为0.01rad,具有精准控制效果。     

具有7自由度和双球型髋关节的仿人机器人下肢运动分析与规划

提出了具有7自由度和双球型髋关节的仿人机器人下肢机构．它和传统的6自由度双足步行机构相比，具有下述两大优点．首先双球型髋关节使机器人在不增加腰部关节的情况下实现腰部的基本运动功能，使机器人能够直立行走；其次在给定腰和足部位置时，它也能和人类一样实现转动双腿的动作．本文还对该复杂机构进行了运动特性分析、运动学求解、运动规划和实验验证．     

基于阿克曼原理的车式移动机器人运动学建模

基于阿克曼原理的轮式移动机器人运动学模型对于无人驾驶车辆的研究有着重要的意义.对轮式移动机器人的运动学特性进行了分析,建立了不考虑滑行、刹车等的轮式移动机器人的运动学模型.对该运动学模型引入了阿克曼约束,给出了描述机器人运动状态的转向角、航向角和转弯半径等物理量的数学公式.最后对该运动学模型进行仿真实验,验证了所建立的运动学模型的正确性,为进一步研究轮式移动机器人提供了理论分析的基础.