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Maintaining the balance or stability of legged robots in natural terrains is a challenging problem. Besides the inherent unstable characteristics of legged robots, the sources of instability are the irregularities of the ground surface and also the external pushes. In this paper, a push recovery framework for restoring the robot balance against external unknown disturbances will be demonstrated. It...
Ability of quadruped robots for adjusting posture for crossing natural obstacles is an important issue. These robots should change their footholds to avoid any obstacles. In this paper, a gait planning algorithm based on Cartesian CPG-based controller for a quadruped robot in order to cross different planar obstacles will be developed. In proposed approach, the rhythmic patterns in central pattern...
Quadruped animals have high agility and grace skills in the motion over natural environment. An important feature of such animals is their abilities in the selection of appropriate gait in the response to the terrain irregularities and also the smooth transition between them in order to increase the stability or conserve the energy. In this paper, a Cartesian CPG-based controller for the gait generation...
To obtain satisfactory performance for legged robots, they should be able to move on natural environment stably. In this article, the path planning of a quadruped robot in the motion over uneven terrains will be investigated. One of major problems for traversing uneven terrains is the robot stability. Thus, a condition to guarantee the robot stability over such terrains will be proposed. This condition...
Quadruped robots have many advantages over other robots. Their excellent potentials to traverse different terrains are one of main advantages which distinguish these robots from wheeled mobile robot. In this article, the gait planning problem and also the design of an appropriate controller for a quadruped robot will be investigated. To this end, an explicit dynamics model of an 18-DOF quadruped robot...
One of advantages of legged robots rather than wheeled robots is their mobilability on uneven terrains. To achieve reliable motion and improve performance characteristics of these robots in such environments, COG path planning is one of the main issues which must be taken into account. In this paper, a new stability criterion is introduced to ensure the robot stability on uneven terrains. To avoid...
Model-based Control of a quadruped robot based on designed stable gaits is the focus of this paper. To this end, first explicit dynamics equations are obtained. Next, stable gait planning of the robot is investigated such that the robot can walk with a given speed over the terrain. Finally, the Sliding Mode Control (SMC) approach is applied, and a new chattering elimination method is proposed by adding...
In this paper, dynamics and gait planning of a quadruped robot is discussed. To this end, using Lagrangian method the equations of motion are first derived. Then, an approach is proposed to eliminate the terms corresponding to the constraints caused by the feet on the ground. The obtained dynamics model is validated using Matlab SimMechanics. Finally, gait planning of the robot is developed such that...
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