Frontal plane stabilization and hopping with a 2DOF tail

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General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory
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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-10-2-0016 and in part by NSF grant #1028237
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Wenger, Garrett
De, Avik
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The Jerboa, a tailed bipedal robot with two hip-actuated, passive-compliant legs and a doubly actuated tail, has been shown both formally and empirically to exhibit a variety of stable hopping and running gaits in the sagittal plane. In this paper we take the first steps toward operating Jerboa as a fully spatial machine by addressing the predominant mode of destabilization away from the sagittal plane: body roll. We develop a provably stable controller for underactuated aerial stabilization of the coupled body roll and tail angles, that uses just the tail torques. We show that this controller is successful at reliably reorienting the Jerboa body in roughly 150 ms of freefall from a large set of initial conditions. This controller also enables (and appears intuitively to be crucial for) sustained empirically stable hopping in the frontal plane by virtue of its substantial robustness against destabilizing perturbations and calibration errors. The controller as well as the analysis methods developed here are applicable to any robotic platform with a similar doubly-actuated spherical tail joint.

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2016-10-05
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2023-05-17T21:43:13.000
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@inproceedings{wenger_frontal_2016, title = {Frontal plane stabilization and hopping with a 2DOF tail}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7759110/}, urldate = {2017-01-05}, booktitle = {Intelligent {Robots} and {Systems} ({IROS}), 2016 {IEEE}/{RSJ} {International} {Conference} on}, publisher = {IEEE}, author = {Wenger, Garrett and De, Avik and Koditschek, Daniel E.}, year = {2016}, pages = {567--573}
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