Averaged Anchoring of Decoupled Templates in a Tail-Energized Monoped

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General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory
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GRASP
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
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This work was supported in part by the ARL/GDRS RCTA project, Coop. Agreement W911NF-1020016 and in part by NSF CABiR (CDI 1028237).
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Fig. 1. A cartoon depicting the classical notion of anchoring (top) and the new notion introduced in this paper based on averaging (bottom) as conceptual mechanisms of dimension reduction, where the blue line represents a template flow, and the red lines depict flows on the anchoring body.
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We refine and advance a notion of parallel composition to achieve for the first time a stability proof and empirical demonstration of a steady-state gait on a highly coupled 3DOF legged platform controlled by two simple (decoupled) feedback laws that provably stabilize in isolation two simple 1DOF mechanical subsystems. Specifically, we stabilize a limit cycle on a tailed monoped to excite sustained sagittal plane translational hopping energized by tail-pumping during stance. The constituent subsystems for which the controllers are nominally designed are: (i) a purely vertical bouncing mass (controlled by injecting energy into its springy shaft); and (ii) a purely tangential rimless wheel (controlled by adjusting the inter-spoke stepping angle).We introduce the use of averaging methods in legged locomotion to prove that this “parallel composition” of independent 1DOF controllers achieves an asymptotically stable closed-loop hybrid limit cycle for a dynamical system that approximates the 3DOF stance mechanics of our physical tailed monoped.We present experimental data demonstrating stability and close agreement between the motion of the physical hopping machine and numerical simulations of the (mathematically tractable) approximating model. More information: http://kodlab.seas.upenn.edu/Avik/AveragingTSLIP

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2015-01-01
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2023-05-17T15:41:58.000
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We would like to thank Sam Burden for helpful discussions on smoothing hybrid systems.
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