arXiv:2505.13715cs.ROcs.SY2025-05ICRA

让双足机器人实时避障,能灵活调整步频和落脚点。

Dynamic Bipedal MPC with Foot-level Obstacle Avoidance and Adjustable Step Timing

  • 通过动态调节步频,快速避开障碍物
  • 3D脚部避障算法能智能选择跨过或绕行路径
  • 适合需要在复杂地形行走的双足机器人研究

在非结构化环境中,无碰撞规划对双足机器人至关重要。本文提出一种实时模型预测控制(MPC)框架,同时实现身体与脚部避障。主要贡献包括:(1) 提出一种可调节步频的新方法,提升身体避障速度;(2) 设计一种新型3D脚部避障公式,隐式选择能跨过或绕行障碍的摆动轨迹与落脚点,并考虑质心(COM)动力学。通过半空间松弛法定义安全区域,结合跟踪误差驱动的切换启发式策略检测是否需调整步频。为实现脚级障碍物四周的可行落脚点,将地面非凸安全区分解为多个凸多边形,使用混合整数二次规划求解最优候选。引入软最小移动距离约束,有效防止MPC陷入局部极小值,避免半空间松弛法在障碍物后停滞。算法在双足机器人平台Cassie和Digit的多体仿真及Digit硬件实验中得到验证。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Collision-free planning is essential for bipedal robots operating within unstructured environments. This paper presents a real-time Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework that addresses both body and foot avoidance for dynamic bipedal robots. Our contribution is two-fold: we introduce (1) a novel formulation for adjusting step timing to facilitate faster body avoidance and (2) a novel 3D foot-avoidance formulation that implicitly selects swing trajectories and footholds that either steps over or navigate around obstacles with awareness of Center of Mass (COM) dynamics. We achieve body avoidance by applying a half-space relaxation of the safe region but introduce a switching heuristic based on tracking error to detect a need to change foot-timing schedules. To enable foot avoidance and viable landing footholds on all sides of foot-level obstacles, we decompose the non-convex safe region on the ground into several convex polygons and use Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming to determine the optimal candidate. We found that introducing a soft minimum-travel-distance constraint is effective in preventing the MPC from being trapped in local minima that can stall half-space relaxation methods behind obstacles. We demonstrated the proposed algorithms on multibody simulations on the bipedal robot platforms, Cassie and Digit, as well as hardware experiments on Digit.

双足机器人避障MPC

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