Trajectory Planning of an Intermittent Jumping Quadruped Robot with Variable Redundant and Underactuated Joints

The jumping robot has been a hot research field due to its prominent obstacle-climbing ability and excellent capacity in terrain adaptation and autonomous movement. However, huge impact between the robot and the ground when landing may cause structure damage, unbalanced movement, and even system cra...

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Main Authors: Jun Zhong, Minzhou Luo, Jizhuang Fan, Jie Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-01-01
Series:Complexity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5369427
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description The jumping robot has been a hot research field due to its prominent obstacle-climbing ability and excellent capacity in terrain adaptation and autonomous movement. However, huge impact between the robot and the ground when landing may cause structure damage, unbalanced movement, and even system crash. Therefore, trajectory planning of the jumping process has been a great challenge in robotic research, especially for the robot with varying underactuated and redundant joints. An intermittent jumping quadruped robot driven by pneumatic muscle actuators (PMAs) and owning variable redundant and underactuated joints designed in a previous study is taken as the study object. This paper divides the problem of trajectory planning into trajectory planning in the centroid space and joint space. Trajectory planning of different jumping phases in the centroid space adopts the scheme of minimizing the peak reaction force from the ground, then trajectory planning of the joint space is performed obeying the principle of minimizing consumed active torques. A jumping experiment is performed and validates the effectiveness of the proposed trajectory algorithm.
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spelling doaj-art-b1723322fea54f32919d435063b2b0b22025-02-03T05:50:32ZengWileyComplexity1076-27871099-05262018-01-01201810.1155/2018/53694275369427Trajectory Planning of an Intermittent Jumping Quadruped Robot with Variable Redundant and Underactuated JointsJun Zhong0Minzhou Luo1Jizhuang Fan2Jie Zhao3College of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Hohai University, Changzhou, 213022 Jiangsu Province, ChinaCollege of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Hohai University, Changzhou, 213022 Jiangsu Province, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, ChinaThe jumping robot has been a hot research field due to its prominent obstacle-climbing ability and excellent capacity in terrain adaptation and autonomous movement. However, huge impact between the robot and the ground when landing may cause structure damage, unbalanced movement, and even system crash. Therefore, trajectory planning of the jumping process has been a great challenge in robotic research, especially for the robot with varying underactuated and redundant joints. An intermittent jumping quadruped robot driven by pneumatic muscle actuators (PMAs) and owning variable redundant and underactuated joints designed in a previous study is taken as the study object. This paper divides the problem of trajectory planning into trajectory planning in the centroid space and joint space. Trajectory planning of different jumping phases in the centroid space adopts the scheme of minimizing the peak reaction force from the ground, then trajectory planning of the joint space is performed obeying the principle of minimizing consumed active torques. A jumping experiment is performed and validates the effectiveness of the proposed trajectory algorithm.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5369427
spellingShingle Jun Zhong
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title Trajectory Planning of an Intermittent Jumping Quadruped Robot with Variable Redundant and Underactuated Joints
title_full Trajectory Planning of an Intermittent Jumping Quadruped Robot with Variable Redundant and Underactuated Joints
title_fullStr Trajectory Planning of an Intermittent Jumping Quadruped Robot with Variable Redundant and Underactuated Joints
title_full_unstemmed Trajectory Planning of an Intermittent Jumping Quadruped Robot with Variable Redundant and Underactuated Joints
title_short Trajectory Planning of an Intermittent Jumping Quadruped Robot with Variable Redundant and Underactuated Joints
title_sort trajectory planning of an intermittent jumping quadruped robot with variable redundant and underactuated joints
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5369427
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