Robotics: Science and Systems XV

Impact-Friendly Robust Control Design with Task-Space Quadratic Optimization

Yuquan Wang, Abderrahmane Kheddar

Abstract:

Almost all known robots fear impacts. Unlike humans, robots keep guarded motions to near zero-velocity prior to establishing contacts with their surroundings. This significantly slows down robotic tasks involving physical interaction. Two main ingredients are necessary to remedy this limitation: impact-friendly hardware design, and impact-friendly controllers. Our work focuses on the controller aspect. Task-space controllers formulated as quadratic programming (QP) are widely used in robotics to generate modular and reactive motion for a large range of task specifications under various constraints. We explicitly introduce discrete impact dynamics model into the QP-based controllers to generate robot motions that are robust to impact-induced state jumps in the joint velocities and joint torques. Our simulations, validate that our proposed impact-friendly QP controller is robust to contacts, shall they be expected or not. Therefore, we can exploit it for establishing contacts with high velocities, and explicitly generate task-purpose impulsive forces.

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Bibtex:

  
@INPROCEEDINGS{Kheddar-RSS-19, 
    AUTHOR    = {Yuquan Wang AND Abderrahmane Kheddar}, 
    TITLE     = {Impact-Friendly Robust Control Design with Task-Space Quadratic Optimization}, 
    BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems}, 
    YEAR      = {2019}, 
    ADDRESS   = {FreiburgimBreisgau, Germany}, 
    MONTH     = {June}, 
    DOI       = {10.15607/RSS.2019.XV.032} 
}