四足机器人步态生成算法研究与仿真

在四足机器人行走动态控制的研究中,为使四足机器人能在复杂地面状况下行走,提出了一种四足机器人在不平坦地面爬行时的平动步态生成算法.首先构建四足机器人步行机构模型,根据静态稳定性对角线原理的判定确定机器人腿的摆动顺序;以平动步态为例根据机器人前行方向、初始位姿、地面不平坦等因素计算一个步态周期后机器人的位姿从而实现平动直线行走的连续步态算法.考虑了机器人机构约束以及状态变化因素使机器人在每一个步态周期都能跨出尽可能大的步幅实现行走效率的最大化.通过仿真验证了算法的正确性.仿真结果对四足机器人步态稳定性的研究及实现具有实际的参考价值.     

四足机器人腿型配置的仿真分析与性能评价

对于四足机器人,腿型和关节姿态的布置形式极为重要,决定着机器人的运动学和动力学性能;四足机器人的腿型配置形式多样,为了在有效行走的前提下分析不同腿型配置的四足机器人的性能优劣和效率高低,采用基于CPG的仿生步态算法进行运动控制,通过Matlab/Simulink与Adams联合仿真,从速度、能耗和地形适应性三方面对不同腿型配置的四足机器人进行仿真分析和性能评价;通过对比仿真结果得知,前肘后膝型机器人前进速度更快,运动更平稳,横向偏移更小,能耗更低,具有更好的地形适应性,运动性能更优越,为物理样机调试与优化提供了理论依据。     

轮腿式机器人倾覆稳定性分析与控制

对于运动在不平坦地形中的移动机器人而言,其倾覆稳定性非常关键．设计了一种结构对称的轮腿式机器人,它有4个独立的轮腿运动单元,能够变化多种构形．采用动态能量稳定锥方法和倾覆稳定性指数对机器人的稳定性进行综合评价,建立了一个模糊神经网络自适应控制系统．根据稳定性指数值,该系统可以实时改变机器人的构形和速度,保证其倾覆稳定性．正弦路面上的仿真结果表明,该系统所产生的动作实时性好、可靠性高,能够降低机器人自主越障过程中的危险．     

下肢外骨骼机器人变步长步态规划方法

为了解决下肢外骨骼机器人连续步态规划问题,基于倒立摆模型提出了一种步态规划算法,并针对传统倒立摆模型无法变步长连续行走的问题提出了新的改进方法。将外骨骼机器人分成支撑腿和摆动腿两部分,分别采用D-H法进行运动学分析;利用倒立摆模型和固定函数法,进行等效质心与摆动腿末端轨迹规划;在相邻单脚支撑期之间插入双脚支撑期,使下肢外骨骼机器人在不断改变步行时,利用双脚支撑期进行位置和速度的切换,实现实时步态规划;将规划算法在SIMULINK中实现,并与ADAMS模型进行联合仿真,下肢外骨骼机器人在仿真环境下行走稳定,证明了算法的有效性。     

控制六足仿生机器人三角步态的研究

基于仿生学原理,在分析六足昆虫运动机理的基础上,对六足仿生机器人的三角步态运动原理进行了分析.论文涉及六腿机器人步态研究的一些基本参数的描述,讨论了用相对运动的原理研究步态的方法,结合慧鱼机器人组合包中的构件拼出六足仿生机器人.该机器人模型结构简单,设计独特,能前进和后退,且能避开小型障碍物.基于三角步态运动原理对其进行了反复实验,实验结果表明六足仿生机器人具有较好的机动性和稳定性.     

变长度柔性双足机器人行走控制及稳定性分析

针对传统双足机器人模型缺少脚质量和躯干的问题,提出考虑摆动腿动态及躯干影响的柔性双足机器人模型,并对其行走控制及稳定性进行研究。首先,建立系统的动力学模型并采用欧拉-拉格朗日法推导了系统的动力学方程;同时,在弹簧负载倒立摆（SLIP）模型的基础上添加刚性躯干、脚质量及采用变长度伸缩腿,充分考虑躯干及摆动腿动力学对机器人行走步态的影响;其次,设计基于变长度腿的反馈线性化控制器来跟踪目标轨迹,以及调节摆动腿和躯干的姿态;最后,利用Newton-Raphson迭代法和庞加莱映射分析机器人的不动点及轨道稳定性条件,并在理论分析的基础上进行仿真。仿真结果表明,所提控制器可以实现机器人的周期行走,对外界干扰具有良好的鲁棒性,且雅可比矩阵所有特征值的模均小于1,能形成稳定的极限环,证明系统是轨道稳定的。     

六足步行机的稳定性研究

本文综合了各种地形条件下的六足步行机器人的静态稳定性方法,详细讨论了能量稳定法,证明了求解六足步行机能量稳定值分量的计算公式,并用能量稳定法分析了采用广义三角步态行走和横向运动六足步行机的爬坡能力、跨越障碍能力等越野性能,首次用数学表达式表述了机体     

双足机器人的两种步态规划的解耦分析及比较

在双足机器人行走步态规划的研究中,首先对前进方向和侧面摆动进行解耦,建立运动学数学模型,运用ZMP稳定性判据作为双足机器人行走稳定性判断标准,利用时序构造函数法和三次样条插值法对双足机器人运行步态进行规划。利用matlab软件编程和仿真,能够体现出不同规划方法下步行状态在时间和空间的特征,仿真结果对比表明,利用三次样条插值法的步态规划,能够更好的反映出双足机器人的步行稳定性。     

基于能耗优化的六足机器人摆动腿轨迹规划

以六足机器人单腿为研究对象,研究机器人摆动腿轨迹规划问题.由于摆动要消耗能量,所以提出了一种基于能耗优化的轨迹规划方案.结合以D-H法建立的机器人单腿运动学模型和腿部位置、速度、加速度等约束,采用多项式插值法在关节空间对机器人摆动腿进行轨迹规划.在考虑直流电机有效功率和热损耗的基础上,通过遗传算法对非线性等式和不等式约束下的非线性规划问题进行求解.仿真结果表明,所设计的方案能有效降低摆动腿能量消耗并保证轨迹连续平滑.     

一种六足步行机器人的自由步态算法

本文探讨了适用于六足步行机器人的步态类型和机器人腿运动的三个约束条件,提出了一种适用于六足步行机器人在不规则地形上运动的自由步态算法.机器人在大部分的地形状况下以标准模式行走.当标准模式失效时,则采用自适应模式,对机器人状态进行调整,以实现正常的行走运动.在保证运动速度和能量效率的前提下,使机器人具备良好的地形适应能力.最后,文章给出了算法的程序流程图,并在MATLAB下进行了仿真验证.     

Fault-Tolerant Gait Planning for a Hexapod Robot Walking over Rough Terrain

Multi-legged robots need fault-tolerant gaits if one of attached legs suffers from a failure and cannot have normal operation. Moreover, when the robots with a failed leg are walking over rough terrain, fault-tolerance should be combined with adaptive gait planning for successful locomotion. In this paper, a strategy of fault-tolerant gaits is proposed which enables a hexapod robot with a locked joint failure to traverse two-dimensional rough terrain. This strategy applies a Follow-The-Leader (FTL) gait in post-failure walking, having the advantages of both fault-tolerance and terrain adaptability. The proposed FTL gait can produce the maximum stride length for a given foot position of a failed leg and better ditch-crossing ability than the previous fault-tolerant gaits. The applicability of the proposed FTL gait is verified using computer graphics simulations.     

Fault-tolerant locomotion of the hexapod robot

In this paper, we propose a scheme for fault detection and tolerance of the hexapod robot locomotion on even terrain. The fault stability margin is defined to represent potential stability which a gait can have in case a sudden fault event occurs to one leg. Based on this, the fault-tolerant quadruped periodic gaits of the hexapod walking over perfectly even terrain are derived. It is demonstrated that the derived quadruped gait is the optimal one the hexapod can have maintaining fault stability margin nonnegative and a geometric condition should be satisfied for the optimal locomotion. By this scheme, when one leg is in failure, the hexapod robot has the modified tripod gait to continue the optimal locomotion.     

基于AT89S52的六足机器人运动控制器的设计

文章应用AT89S52内部的2个定时器,采用多舵机分时控制方法,设计了可驱动机器人足部12个舵机协调运动的控制器;按照六足机器人典型行走步态,实现了六足机器人按步态规划运动。测试结果验证了该设计方案的正确性和可靠性。     

Planar legged walking of a passive-spine hexapod robot

This paper proposes a new legged walking method for a novel passive-spine hexapod robot. This robot consists of several body segments connected by passive body joints. Each of the body segments carries two 1-DoF (degree of freedom) actuated legs. The robot is capable of achieving planar legged walking by rapidly abducting and adducting its legs. To model the mobility of a robot based on this simple design, the candidate configurations from all possible configurations are first selected in a mobility analysis of the robot based on the screw theory. All the feasible sequences of these candidate configurations are then searched to form planar locomotion gaits. Next, locomotive performance of the gaits is analyzed. Finally, the proposed locomotion design and gait planning methods are verified through simulations and experiments.     

Effects of turning gait parameters on energy consumption and stability of a six-legged walking robot

Minimization of energy consumption plays a key role in the locomotion of a multi-legged robot used for various purposes. Turning gaits are the most general and important factors for omni-directional walking of a six-legged robot. This paper presents an analysis on energy consumption of a six-legged robot during its turning motion over a flat terrain. An energy consumption model is developed for statically stable wave gaits in order to minimize dissipating energy for optimal feet forces distributions. The effects of gait parameters, namely angular velocity, angular stroke and duty factors are studied on energy consumption, as the six-legged robot walks along a circular path of constant radius with wave gait. The variations of average power consumption and energy consumption per unit weight per unit traveled length with the angular velocity and angular stroke are compared for the turning gaits of a robot with four different duty factors. Computer simulations show that wave gait with a low duty factor is more energy-efficient compared to that with a high duty factor at the highest possible angular velocity. A stability analysis based on normalized energy stability margin is performed for turning motion of the robot with four duty factors for different angular strokes.     

Comparison between different model of hexapod robot in fault-tolerant gait

This paper presents a gait analysis of the equilateral hexagonal model of hexapod robot. Mathematical analysis has been made on mobility, fault-tolerance, and stability. A comparison with the rectangular model of hexapod robot is also given, and it has shown that the hexagonal model shows better turning ability, a higher margin of stability during the fault-tolerant gait, and greater stride length in certain conditions.     

The ASURA I harvestman-like hexapod walking robot: compact body and long leg design

This paper reports the design of a new hexapod walking robot, ASURA I, inspired by the physical features of a harvestman’s behavior. ASURA I has a special mobile form with one compact body and much longer legs than conventional hexapod walking robots. This form enhances the walking performance of the robot on rocky or uneven terrain. Here, we present the design and analysis of the leg mechanism, body structure design, gait planning, and prototype development. The long legs (relative to the body) are managed by special parallel link mechanisms, which powerfully and effectively drive the leg joints. The leg mechanism is analyzed by its kinematics, singularity, and static characteristics. The leg length and weight of ASURA I is 1.3 m and 27 kg, respectively. The alternating tripod and wave gaits of ASURA I are successfully demonstrated in a series of walking experiments.     

Kinematic and dynamic analysis of a hexapod walking-running-bounding gaits robot and control actions

Kinematic and dynamic analysis, and control actions of a hexapod robot were realized for walking, running and bounding gaits in this study. If biological inspiration can be used to build robots that deal robustly with complex environments, it should be possible to demonstrate that legged biorobots can function in natural environments. Firstly, we tried to report on theoretic work with a six legged robot designed to emulate spider behavior like walking, running and bounding. We demonstrated theoretically that it can successfully walk, run and bound like a spider over natural terrain. Secondly, limitations in its capability were evaluated, and many biologically based important improvements were obtained for future experimental work. Thirdly, the hexapod robot with bounding gait was controlled by proportional-derivative control algorithm and was carried out by using spring loaded inverted pendulum model. Consequently, the developed kinematic and dynamic methods, and control action method makes both the system control easy and the system performance is improved by decreasing the run time for each loop.     

Optimal fault tolerant gait sequence of the hexapod robot withoverlapping reachable areas and crab walking

This paper extends the authors' previous results on fault tolerant locomotion of the hexapod robot on even terrain by relaxing nonoverlap of redefined reachable cells of legs and considering crab walking. It is shown that in fault tolerant locomotion two adjacent legs of the hexapod robot can have overlapping redefined reachable cells with each other and consequently the stride length of the gaits is increased. Also, the optimal fault tolerant periodic gaits for hexapod robots to have the maximum stride length in one cycle in crab walking on even terrain are derived with distinct reachable cells. The derived sequence for crab walking has different orders of leg swing according to the relative values of the crab angle and some design parameters of the robot     

仿生六足步行机器人步态轨迹的研究与仿真

针对仿生六足步行机器人关节较多,其步态轨迹规划和关节控制量计算都较为复杂的现状,采用Solidworks软件与MSC.ADAMS软件相结合的方式对六足仿生步行机器人的样机模型进行了运动学仿真与分析.通过仿真,验证了所设计的三角步态的适用性和所选择的三次样条曲线作为机器人足端点轨迹曲线方案的可行性.详细阐述了六足仿生步行机器人轨迹仿真的原理、方法及过程,找到了一种在ADAMS环境下求解机器人逆解的方法,简化了理论计算,提高了设计效率.