用自感知数据捕捉颗粒介质动态受力,提升高速运动时的地形判断精度。
From Impact to Insight: Dynamics-Aware Proprioceptive Terrain Sensing on Granular Media
- 基于本体感知与物理模型,分离加速度相关的颗粒惯性效应。
- 在高速跳跃中实现与真实刚性执行器一致的颗粒刚度估计误差小于10%。
- 适合研究高速机器人地形感知或行星探测机器人的开发者参考。
在高速跳跃过程中,机器人需在动态条件下解析接触力。然而,多数地形表征方法依赖准静态假设,忽略撞击与快速支撑转换中的速度和加速度效应。本文通过系统控制跳跃速度与腿柔顺性的实验,发现准静态假设在触地及控制器诱导刚度变化时导致显著的颗粒介质参数估计偏差。仅靠速度相关的阻力无法解释这些偏差,而由足底颗粒拖拽引起的加速度相关附加质量效应主导了瞬态受力响应。我们结合动量观测器估计算法,补偿刚体惯性和重力,并引入加速度感知的加权回归以应对高加速度事件中的力值方差增大问题。该方法实现了不同运动状态下的颗粒刚度参数一致恢复,与线性执行器实测结果高度吻合。结果表明,高速运动中准确地形推断必须显式处理加速度相关的颗粒效应,为机器人在复杂可变形地形上进行动态探索(如地球或行星环境)提供了理论基础。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Robots that traverse natural terrain must interpret contact forces generated under highly dynamic conditions. However, most terrain characterization approaches rely on quasi-static assumptions that neglect velocity- and acceleration-dependent effects arising during impact and rapid stance transitions. In this work, we investigate granular terrain interaction during high-speed hopping and develop a physics-based framework for dynamic terrain characterization using proprioceptive sensing alone. Through controlled hopping experiments with systematically varied impact speed and leg compliance, our measurements reveal that quasi-static based assumptions lead to large discrepancies in granular terrain property estimation during high-speed hopping, particularly upon touchdown and controller-induced stiffness transitions. Velocity-dependent drag alone cannot explain these discrepancies. Instead, acceleration-dependent added-mass effects-associated with grain entrainment beneath the foot-dominate transient force responses. We integrate this force decomposition with a momentum-observer-based estimator that compensates for rigid-body inertia and gravity, and introduce an acceleration-aware weighted regression to account for increased force variance during high-acceleration events. Together, these methods enable consistent recovery of granular stiffness parameters across locomotion conditions, closely matching linear-actuator ground truth. Our results demonstrate that accurate terrain inference during high-speed locomotion requires explicit treatment of acceleration-dependent granular effects, and provide a foundation for robots to characterize complex deformable terrain during dynamic exploration of terrestrial and planetary environments.
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