arXiv:2510.12970cs.RO2025-10被引 1

受蠕虫启发,提出通用转向模板实现长身机器人精准转向

The Omega Turn: A General Turning Template for Elongate Robots

  • 将蠕虫的Ω形转向拆解为两个行波叠加,构建统一数学模型
  • 控制器在实验室与复杂环境均实现稳定转向,无需依赖外部感知
  • 方法可推广至多足长身机器人,适用于无肢或有肢系统

无肢体长身机器人具备在狭小空间中移动的潜力,适用于搜救与工业检测。然而,针对此类系统转向策略的研究仍十分有限。为在复杂环境中实现高效、鲁棒的转向,研究受微观蠕虫C. elegans启发,其在粘弹性环境中展现出卓越机动性,部分归因于能执行Ω形转向。尽管已有研究分析Ω形转向的运动学特性,但尚不清楚是否存在足够描述该动作的波形方程,更未实现其在机器人平台上的重构。本文采用理论-生物交叉方法,将Ω形转向建模为两个行波的叠加,并基于此设计控制器,使无肢体机器人在实验室内及复杂野外环境中均表现出稳健有效的转向能力。最终证明,该Ω形转向控制器可泛化至多足长身机器人,为长身机器人(无论有无肢体)提供一种基于身体驱动的有效转向新策略。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Elongate limbless robots have the potential to locomote through tightly packed spaces for applications such as search-and-rescue and industrial inspections. The capability to effectively and robustly maneuver elongate limbless robots is crucial to realize such potential. However, there has been limited research on turning strategies for such systems. To achieve effective and robust turning performance in cluttered spaces, we take inspiration from a microscopic nematode, C. elegans, which exhibits remarkable maneuverability in rheologically complex environments partially because of its ability to perform omega turns. Despite recent efforts to analyze omega turn kinematics, it remains unknown if there exists a wave equation sufficient to prescribe an omega turn, let alone its reconstruction on robot platforms. Here, using a comparative theory-biology approach, we prescribe the omega turn as a superposition of two traveling waves. With wave equations as a guideline, we design a controller for limbless robots enabling robust and effective turning behaviors in lab and cluttered field environments. Finally, we show that such omega turn controllers can also generalize to elongate multi-legged robots, demonstrating an alternative effective body-driven turning strategy for elongate robots, with and without limbs.

机器人生物启发转向控制仿生

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