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Task-Level Control and Poincaré Map-Based Sim-to-Real Transfer for Effective Command Following of Quadrupedal Trot Gait | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

Task-Level Control and Poincaré Map-Based Sim-to-Real Transfer for Effective Command Following of Quadrupedal Trot Gait


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The ability of quadrupedal robots to follow com-manded velocities is important for navigating in constrained environments such as homes and warehouses. This paper present...Show More

Abstract:

The ability of quadrupedal robots to follow com-manded velocities is important for navigating in constrained environments such as homes and warehouses. This paper presents a simple, scalable approach to realize high fidelity speed regulation and demonstrates its efficacy on a quadrupedal robot. Using analytical inverse kinematics and gravity com-pensation, a task-level controller calculates joint torques based on the prescribed motion of the torso. Due to filtering and feedback gains in this controller, there is an error in tracking the velocity. To ensure scalability, these errors are corrected at the time scale of a step using a Poincaré map (a mapping of states and control between consecutive steps). A data-driven approach is used to identify a decoupled Poincaré map, and to correct for the tracking error in simulation. However, due to model imperfections, the simulation-derived Poincaré map-based controller leads to tracking errors on hardware. Three modeling approaches - a polynomial, a Gaussian process, and a neural network - are used to identify a correction to the simulation-based Poincaré map and to reduce the tracking error on hardware. The advantages of our approach are the computational simplicity of the task-level controller (uses analytical computations and avoids numerical searches) and scalability of the sim-to-real transfer (use of low-dimensional Poincaré map for sim-to-real transfer). A video is here http://tiny.cc/humanoids23.
Date of Conference: 12-14 December 2023
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 01 January 2024
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Conference Location: Austin, TX, USA

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