提出抗噪主动标定框架,提升四足机器人多惯性单元定位精度
A2I-Calib: An Anti-noise Active Multi-IMU Spatial-temporal Calibration Framework for Legged Robots
- 设计抗噪轨迹生成器,降低噪声敏感度
- 用强化学习控制实现稳定标定动作执行
- 实测验证显著减少误差,适合多足机器人部署
近年来,基于多节点惯性测量单元(IMU)的里程计因成本低、功耗小且精度高,受到四足机器人的关注。然而,足端运动由正向运动学推导与足端IMU测量之间存在的空间-时间错位,会引入不一致约束,导致里程计漂移。因此,精确的空间-时间标定对多IMU系统至关重要。现有方法虽可处理静态刚体传感器标定,但难以适用于四足系统,主要因传统步态激励不足,且在运动链变换中对IMU噪声更敏感。为此,本文提出A²I-Calib,一种抗噪主动多IMU标定框架,支持任意足端安装的IMU自主标定。该框架包含:1)基于新提出的基函数选择定理的抗噪轨迹生成器,通过最小化相关分析中的条件数,降低噪声敏感度;2)基于强化学习(RL)的控制器,确保标定动作鲁棒执行。在仿真与真实四足机器人平台上的多种多IMU配置下验证表明,本方法显著降低噪声敏感度与标定误差,有效提升整体多IMU里程计性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recently, multi-node inertial measurement unit (IMU)-based odometry for legged robots has gained attention due to its cost-effectiveness, power efficiency, and high accuracy. However, the spatial and temporal misalignment between foot-end motion derived from forward kinematics and foot IMU measurements can introduce inconsistent constraints, resulting in odometry drift. Therefore, accurate spatial-temporal calibration is crucial for the multi-IMU systems. Although existing multi-IMU calibration methods have addressed passive single-rigid-body sensor calibration, they are inadequate for legged systems. This is due to the insufficient excitation from traditional gaits for calibration, and enlarged sensitivity to IMU noise during kinematic chain transformations. To address these challenges, we propose A$^2$I-Calib, an anti-noise active multi-IMU calibration framework enabling autonomous spatial-temporal calibration for arbitrary foot-mounted IMUs. Our A$^2$I-Calib includes: 1) an anti-noise trajectory generator leveraging a proposed basis function selection theorem to minimize the condition number in correlation analysis, thus reducing noise sensitivity, and 2) a reinforcement learning (RL)-based controller that ensures robust execution of calibration motions. Furthermore, A$^2$I-Calib is validated on simulation and real-world quadruped robot platforms with various multi-IMU settings, which demonstrates a significant reduction in noise sensitivity and calibration errors, thereby improving the overall multi-IMU odometry performance.
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