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Fault-tolerant gaits in legged locomotion are defined as gaits with which legged robots can continue their walking after a failure event has occurred to a leg of the robot. For planning an efficient fault-tolerant gait, kinematic constraints and remaining mobility of the failed leg should be closely examined with each other. This paper addresses the problem of kinematic constraints on fault-tolerant gaits. The considered failure is a locked joint failure which prevents a joint of a leg from moving and makes it locked in a known place. It is shown that for the existence of the conventional fault-tolerant gait for forward walking on even terrain, the configuration of the failed leg must be within a range of kinematic constraints. Then, for coping with failure situations where the existence condition is not satisfied, the conventional fault-tolerant gait is adopted by including the adjustment of the foot trajectory of the failed leg. The foot trajectory adjustment procedure is analytically derived to show that it can help the fault-tolerant gait avoid dead-lock resulting from the kinematic constraint. To demonstrate its effectiveness, the proposed method is applied to the fault-tolerant gait generation for a quadruped robot walking with the wave-crab gait before a locked joint failure.
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Yang, JM. Kinematic Constraints on Fault-Tolerant Gaits for a Locked Joint Failure. J Intell Robot Syst 45, 323–342 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-006-9054-4
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