A Digitigrade Wheeled Bipedal Robot and Its Obstacle Avoidance Actions Library

Ziyu Wang, Fangxing Li, Weimin Zhang*, Qiang Huang

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Abstract

The current wheel-legged robots are mainly deformed wheeled or multi-legged robots, and there is little research on humanoid wheel-legged robots. To integrate wheel-legged robots into human society further, we propose a wheeled bipedal robot with bionic joints and establish an obstacle avoidance actions library to enhance its active ability to overcome obstacles. We use closed vector equations and the Modified Denavit-Hartenberg (MDH) method to build the single-leg model. The bionic joints introduce two closed kinematics loops. We handle this by converting these closed loops into spanning trees. We prove that the robot can actively overcome different types of obstacles by calling the actions in the library. This research provides an idea for enhancing the motion capability of wheel-legged robots, which further enhances the possibility of wheel-legged robots serving human society in reality.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2021 International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Automation and Applications, ICAA 2021
EditorsHongzhi Wang, Hong Lin, Zhiliang Qin
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages451-467
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9781665437301
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event2021 International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Automation and Applications, ICAA 2021 - Virtual, Nanjing, China
Duration: 25 Jun 202127 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2021 International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Automation and Applications, ICAA 2021

Conference

Conference2021 International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Automation and Applications, ICAA 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityVirtual, Nanjing
Period25/06/2127/06/21

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