Biped Locomotion Control with Compliance.

Abstract

Realization of stable walking motion of biped locomotive robot is one of difficult control problems, but it is very interesting both theoretically and practically from the view point of motion control. The authors have already reported that the locomotion rhythm plays an important role in walking motions, and confirmed experimentally that the control method based on the locomotion rhythm is effective. But, many uncertainties, e. g., the changes of robot dynamics and the interaction between the robot and the floor, may make the locomotion rhythm irregular.In this paper, we introduce the compliance into the control system in order to modify the original reference locomotion rhythm for stable walking under the existence of the uncertainties. Concretely a compliance control system for the contact leg is designed to modify the rhythm by changing the posture of the leg corresponding to the force acting from the body so that the robot may keep the equilibrium state dynamically. Finally the simulation results are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed compliance control system.