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Author Henze, Bernd.

Title Whole-body control for multi-contact balancing of humanoid robots : design and experiments / Bernd Henze
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2022]

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Series Springer tracts in advanced robotics, 1610-742X ; v. 143
Springer tracts in advanced robotics ; v. 143. 1610-742X
Contents Introduction -- Notation -- Modeling -- Cartesian Compliance -- Torque-Controlled Humanoid Robot TORO -- Whole-Body Control for Multi-Contact Balancing -- Combining Multi-Contact Balancing with Hierarchical Whole-Body Control -- Balance Control based on Reduced Dynamic Models -- Applications -- Discussion and Conclusion
Summary This book aims at providing algorithms for balance control of legged, torque-controlled humanoid robots. A humanoid robot normally uses the feet for locomotion. This paradigm is extended by addressing the challenge of multi-contact balancing, which allows a humanoid robot to exploit an arbitrary number of contacts for support. Using multiple contacts increases the size of the support polygon, which in turn leads to an increased robustness of the stance and to an increased kinematic workspace of the robot. Both are important features for facilitating a transition of humanoid robots from research laboratories to real-world applications, where they are confronted with multiple challenging scenarios, such as climbing stairs and ladders, traversing debris, handling heavy loads, or working in confined spaces. The distribution of forces and torques among the multiple contacts is a challenging aspect of the problem, which arises from the closed kinematic chain given by the robot and its environment
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 9, 2021)
Subject Robots -- Control systems.
Androids.
Androids
Robots -- Control systems
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030872120
3030872122