Concurrent Optimization of Mechanical Design and Locomotion Control of a Legged Robot

 

This paper introduces a method to simultaneously optimize design and control parameters for legged robots to improve the performance of locomotion based tasks.

July 20, 2014
CLAWAR (Climbing and Walking Robots) 2014

 

Authors

Krishnamanaswi Digumarti (Disney Research)

Christian Gehring (Disney Research)

Stelian Coros (Disney Research)

Je Min Hwangbo (ETH Zurich)

Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich)

Concurrent Optimization of Mechanical Design and Locomotion Control of a Legged Robot

Abstract

The morphology of a quadrupedal robot was optimized for a trotting and bounding gait to achieve a certain speed while tuning the control parameters of a robust locomotion controller at the same time. The results of the optimization show that a change of the structure of the robot can help increase its admissable top speed while using the same actuation units.

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