Hybrid Momentum Compensation Control by Using Arms for Bipedal Dynamic Walking

Biomimetics (Basel). 2023 Jan 12;8(1):31. doi: 10.3390/biomimetics8010031.

Abstract

Biped robots swing their legs alternately to achieve highly dynamic walking, which is the basic ability required for them to perform tasks. However, swinging of the swinging leg in the air will disturb the interaction between the supporting leg and the ground and affect the upper body's balance during dynamic walking. To allow the robot to use its own intrinsic motion characteristics to maintain stable movement like a human when its lower limbs are affected by unknown disturbances during dynamic walking, the ability to use its arms to resist disturbances is essential. This article presents a hybrid momentum compensation control method for torque-controlled biped robots to adapt to unknown disturbances during dynamic walking. First, a hybrid angular momentum and linear momentum regulator is designed to compensate for the disturbance caused by the swinging leg. Second, based on real-time dynamic state changes of the legs, a mixed-momentum quadratic programming controller is designed to realize stable dynamic walking. The proposed method allows the force-controlled robot to maintain its balance while walking down an unknown platform, and it maintains good straightness in the forward direction of dynamic motion. The proposed method's effectiveness is verified experimentally on the BHR-B2 force-controlled biped robot platform.

Keywords: angular momentum; biped robot; joint torque control.

Grants and funding

This research was supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2018YFE0126200, and in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61973039 and Grant 62088101.