Control strategies for a humanoid robot to drive and then egress a utility vehicle for remote approach

Abstract

This paper proposes strategies for the driving and egress of a vehicle with a humanoid robot. To drive the vehicle, the RANSAC method was used to detect obstacles, and the Wagon model was used to control the steering and velocity of the vehicle with only a limited number of sensors which were installed on the humanoid robot. Additionally, a manual tele-operating method was used with the lane projection technique. For the egress motion, gain override and the Cartesian position/force control technique were used to interact with the vehicle structure. To overcome the disadvantages of a highly geared manipulator, a special technique was used that included modelled friction compensation and a non-complementary switching mode. DRC-HUBO+ used the proposed method to perform a vehicle driving and egress task in the DRC finals 2015.