The efficient evaluation the dynamic stability of legged robots on non-coplanar terrains is important when developing motion planning and control policies. The inference time of this measure has a strong influence on how fast a robot can react to unexpected events, plan its future footsteps or its body trajectory. Existing approaches suitable for real-time decision making are either limited to flat ground or to quasi-static locomotion. Furthermore, joint-space feasibility constraints are usually not considered in receding-horizon planning as their high dimensionality prohibits this. In this paper we propose the usage of a stability criterion for dynamic locomotion on rough terrain based on the Feasible Region (FR) and the Instantaneous Capture Point (ICP) and we leverage a Neural Network (NN) to quickly estimate it. We show that our network achieves satisfactory accuracy with respect to its analytical counterpart with a speed up of three orders-of-magnitude. It also enables the evaluation of the stability margin's gradient. We demonstrate this learned stability margin in two diverse applications - Reinforcement Learning (RL) and nonlinear Trajectory Optimization (TO) for legged robots. We demonstrate on a full-sized quadruped robot that the network enables the computation of physically-realizable Center of Mass (CoM) trajectories and foothold locations satisfying friction constraints and joint-torque limits in a receding-horizon fashion and on non-coplanar terrains.


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    Titel :

    Rapid stability margin estimation for contact-rich locomotion


    Beteiligte:
    Orsolino, R (Autor:in) / Gangapurwala, S (Autor:in) / Melon, O (Autor:in) / Geisert, M (Autor:in) / Havoutis, I (Autor:in) / Fallon, M (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    10.03.2022



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    629



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