Design of Crawling Motion for a Biped Walking Humanoid with 3-DoF Rigid-Flexible Waist

Zelin Huang, Xinyang Jiang, Huaxin Liu, Xuechao Chen, Toshio Fukuda, Qiang Huang

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Abstract

In order to be applied in complex environment, humanoid robots are desired to have the ability of both biped walking and quadruped crawling. Crawling is a multicontact motion. If the mechanism is completely rigid, there will be a closed kinematic chain of robot which is likely to cause damage to robot joints. Therefore, the robot needs to have some flexibility in mechanism. However, biped walking requires highly rigid mechanism to maintain walking stability. Consequently, it is a crucial issue to study crawling motion and biped walking motion in case of rigid-flexible mechanism. In this paper, firstly a 3-DoF rigid-flexible waist is proposed. The waist has rigidity when walking and flexibility when crawling. Then a crawling pattern generation algorithm based on CPG is presented, which solves the problem of difficult to plan crawling motion of robot with rigid-flexible mechanism. Finally, the validity of the proposed method is confirmed by experiments.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2018
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages974-979
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538672839
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Jul 2018
Event18th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2018 - Beijing, China
Duration: 6 Nov 20189 Nov 2018

Publication series

NameIEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Volume2018-November
ISSN (Print)2164-0572
ISSN (Electronic)2164-0580

Conference

Conference18th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period6/11/189/11/18

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