提出闭式控制算法,让柔性机械臂实时避障且保证安全。
A Closed-Form CLF-CBF Controller for Whole-Body Continuum Soft Robot Collision Avoidance
- 用解析方法将安全约束嵌入控制输入,无需在线优化。
- 速度比传统方法快10倍以上,实测在复杂环境稳定避障。
- 适合对安全性要求高的柔性机器人实时控制场景。
在人机共存的三维环境中,安全运行对机器人部署至关重要。软体连续体机械臂凭借机械柔顺性具备被动安全性,但仍需主动控制实现可靠的碰撞规避。现有方法如基于采样的规划通常计算成本高且缺乏形式化安全保证,限制了其在全肢体实时避障中的应用。本文提出一种闭式控制李雅普诺夫函数-控制屏障函数(CLF-CBF)控制器,可在无需在线优化的情况下实现软体连续体机械臂在三维空间中的实时障碍物规避。通过解析地将安全约束嵌入控制输入,所提方法在给定建模假设下确保系统稳定与安全,同时避免了在线优化方法常见的可行性问题。该控制器速度较标准CLF-CBF二次规划方法提升达10倍,较传统采样方法快100倍。仿真与硬件实验在腱驱动软机械臂上验证了精确的三维轨迹跟踪能力及在杂乱环境中的鲁棒避障性能。结果表明,该框架为动态、高安全要求环境下软体机器人的可扩展、可证明安全控制提供了有效方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Safe operation is essential for deploying robots in human-centered 3D environments. Soft continuum manipulators provide passive safety through mechanical compliance, but still require active control to achieve reliable collision avoidance. Existing approaches, such as sampling-based planning, are often computationally expensive and lack formal safety guarantees, which limits their use for real-time whole-body avoidance. This paper presents a closed-form Control Lyapunov Function--Control Barrier Function (CLF--CBF) controller for real-time 3D obstacle avoidance in soft continuum manipulators without online optimization. By analytically embedding safety constraints into the control input, the proposed method ensures stability and safety under the stated modeling assumptions, while avoiding feasibility issues commonly encountered in online optimization-based methods. The resulting controller is up to $10\times$ faster than standard CLF--CBF quadratic-programming approaches and up to $100\times$ faster than traditional sampling-based planners. Simulation and hardware experiments on a tendon-driven soft manipulator demonstrate accurate 3D trajectory tracking and robust obstacle avoidance in cluttered environments. These results show that the proposed framework provides a scalable and provably safe control strategy for soft robots operating in dynamic, safety-critical settings.
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