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Publication date: 11 March 2020

Petrus Sutyasadi and Manukid Parnichkun

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a quadruped robot strategy to avoid tipping down because of side impact disturbance and a control algorithm that guarantees the strategy…

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a quadruped robot strategy to avoid tipping down because of side impact disturbance and a control algorithm that guarantees the strategy can be controlled stably even in the presence of disturbances or model uncertainties.

Design/methodology/approach

A quadruped robot was developed. Trot gait is applied so the quadruped can be modelled as a compass biped model. The algorithm to find a correct stepping position after an impact was developed. A particle swarm optimization-based structure-specified mixed sensitivity (H2/H) robust is applied to reach the stepping position.

Findings

By measuring the angle and speed of the side tipping after an impact disturbance, a point location for the robot to step or the foothold recovery point (FRP) was successfully generated. The proposed particle swarm optimization-based structure-specified mixed sensitivity H2/H robust control also successfully brought the legs to the desired point.

Practical implications

A traditional H controller synthesis usually results in a very high order of controller. This makes implementation on an embedded controller very difficult. The proposed controller is just a second-order controller but it can handle the uncertainties and disturbances that arise and guarantee that FRP can be reached.

Originality/value

The first contribution is the proposed low-order robust H2/H controller so it is easy to be programmed on a small embedded system. The second is FRP, a stepping point for a quadruped robot after receiving side impact disturbance so the robot will not fall.

Details

Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application, vol. 47 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-991X

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Article
Publication date: 7 August 2017

Ningbo Yu and Wulin Zou

This paper aims to present an impedance control method with mixed H2/H synthesis and relaxed passivity for a cable-driven series elastic actuator to be applied for physical…

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to present an impedance control method with mixed H2/H synthesis and relaxed passivity for a cable-driven series elastic actuator to be applied for physical human–robot interaction.

Design/methodology/approach

To shape the system’s impedance to match a desired dynamic model, the impedance control problem was reformulated into an impedance matching structure. The desired competing performance requirements as well as constraints from the physical system can be characterized with weighting functions for respective signals. Considering the frequency properties of human movements, the passivity constraint for stable human–robot interaction, which is required on the entire frequency spectrum and may bring conservative solutions, has been relaxed in such a way that it only restrains the low frequency band. Thus, impedance control became a mixed H2/H synthesis problem, and a dynamic output feedback controller can be obtained.

Findings

The proposed impedance control strategy has been tested for various desired impedance with both simulation and experiments on the cable-driven series elastic actuator platform. The actual interaction torque tracked well the desired torque within the desired norm bounds, and the control input was regulated below the motor velocity limit. The closed loop system can guarantee relaxed passivity at low frequency. Both simulation and experimental results have validated the feasibility and efficacy of the proposed method.

Originality/value

This impedance control strategy with mixed H2/H synthesis and relaxed passivity provides a novel, effective and less conservative method for physical human–robot interaction control.

Details

Assembly Automation, vol. 37 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0144-5154

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Article
Publication date: 25 October 2021

Yang Yuan and Haibin Duan

The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel active disturbance rejection attitude controller for quadrotors and propose a controller parameters identification approach to…

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel active disturbance rejection attitude controller for quadrotors and propose a controller parameters identification approach to obtain better control results.

Design/methodology/approach

Aiming at the problem that quadrotor is susceptible to disturbance in outdoor flight, the improved active disturbance rejection control (IADRC) is applied to design attitude controller. To overcome the difficulty that adjusting the parameters of IADRC controller manually is complex, paired coevolution pigeon-inspired optimization (PCPIO) algorithm is used to optimize the control parameters.

Findings

The IADRC, where nonlinear state error feedback control law is replaced by non-singular fast terminal sliding mode control law and a third-order tracking differentiator is designed for second derivative of the state, has higher control accuracy and better robustness than ADRC. The improved PIO algorithm based on evolutionary mechanism, named PCPIO, is proposed. The optimal parameters of ADRC controller are found by PCPIO with the optimization criterion of integral of time-weighted absolute value of the error. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by a series of simulation experiments.

Practical implications

IADRC can improve the accuracy of attitude control of quadrotor and resist external interference more effectively. The proposed PCPIO algorithm can be easily applied to practice and can help the design of the quadrotor control system.

Originality/value

An improved active disturbance rejection controller is designed for quadrotor attitude control, and a hybrid model of PIO and evolution mechanism is proposed for parameters identification of the controller.

Article
Publication date: 21 January 2022

ShunXiang Wei, Haibo Wu, Liang Liu, YiXiao Zhang, Jiang Chen and Quanfeng Li

To achieve stable gait planning and enhance the motion performance of quadruped robot, this paper aims to propose a motion control strategy based on central pattern generator…

Abstract

Purpose

To achieve stable gait planning and enhance the motion performance of quadruped robot, this paper aims to propose a motion control strategy based on central pattern generator (CPG) and back-propagation neural network (BPNN).

Design/methodology/approach

First, the Kuramoto phase oscillator is used to construct the CPG network model, and a piecewise continuous phase difference matrix is designed to optimize the duty cycle of walk gait, so as to realize the gait planning and smooth switching. Second, the mapper between CPG output and joint drive is established based on BP neural network, so that the quadruped robot based on CPG control has better foot trajectory to enhance the motion performance. Finally, to obtain better mapping effect, an evaluation function is resigned to evaluate the proximity between the actual foot trajectory and the ideal foot trajectory. Genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization are used to optimize the initial weights and thresholds of BPNN to obtain more accurate foot trajectory.

Findings

The method provides a solution for the smooth gait switching and foot trajectory of the robot. The quintic polynomial trajectory is selected to testify the validity and practicability of the method through simulation and prototype experiment.

Originality/value

The paper solved the incorrect duty cycle under the walk gait of CPG network constructed by Kuramoto phase oscillator, and made the robot have a better foot trajectory by mapper to enhance its motion performance.

Details

Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application, vol. 49 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-991X

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