A Novel Foot Contact Probability Estimator for Biped Robot State Estimation

Mingyue Qin, Zhangguo Yu, Xuechao Chen, Qiang Huang, Chenglong Fu, Aiguo Ming, Chunjing Tao

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Abstract

State estimation is an important part of biped robot control, but unreliable foot contact estimation would lead to inaccurate state estimation result. In this paper, to reduce the state estimation error caused by the inaccurate contact estimation, we propose a novel simplified contact probability estimator based on the force/torque sensor mounted on the foot. The contact probability is used to tune the covariance matrices of the extended Kalman filter, and the parameters of the probability estimator are optimized iteratively through minimizing the error between state estimation result and ground truth measurement. The experimental result on BHR-6P biped robot shows that the proposed method can effectively reduce the state estimation error.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1901-1906
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728164151
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Oct 2020
Event17th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2020 - Beijing, China
Duration: 13 Oct 202016 Oct 2020

Publication series

Name2020 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2020

Conference

Conference17th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2020
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period13/10/2016/10/20

Keywords

  • Bayesian optimization
  • State estimation
  • biped robot
  • extended Kalman filter
  • probabilistic estimation

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