Traversing through stairs stably is a challenging task for humanoid locomotion. Previous researches mostly focus on empowering humanoid robots with the capability of walking up stairs. There are only a few studies about walking down stairs, not to mention the case of humanoid robots walking down stairs with small joint range of motion (RoM). This paper proposes a whole-body motion optimization method for humanoid robots walking down stairs continuously with restricted joint RoM. Motion generation consists of two sequential optimization problems. The first is a segmented parameter optimization of swing foot trajectory considering trajectory smoothness and collision avoidance. The second is a whole-body motion optimization based on the centroidal dynamics and whole-body kinematics model, which takes the optimized swing foot trajectory as hard equality constraints and optimizes physically feasible whole-body trajectory for walking down stairs within small joint RoM. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is validated in simulation with the humanoid robot BHR7P.


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    Title :

    Optimization of Whole-Body Motion for Humanoid Robot Walking Down Stairs with Small Joint Range of Motion


    Additional title:

    Mechan. Machine Science


    Contributors:
    Okada, Masafumi (editor) / Meng, Xiang (author) / Huang, Zelin (author) / Liang, Qian (author) / Dong, Yue (author) / Gao, Zhifa (author) / Han, Lianqiang (author) / Lai, Junhang (author) / Gu, Sai (author) / Chen, Huanzhong (author)

    Conference:

    IFToMM World Congress on Mechanism and Machine Science ; 2023 ; Tokyo, Japan November 05, 2023 - November 10, 2023



    Publication date :

    2023-11-04


    Size :

    10 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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