Stabilizing contact-rich trajectories

Pang, Terry, Jack

Turning the ball by 30 degrees: open-loop

  • Simulated in Drake with the same SDF as the quasi-dynamic model used for planning.

Turning the ball by 30 degrees: open-loop with disturbance

  • Initial position of the ball is off by 3mm.

Turning the ball by 30 degrees: closed-loop with disturbance

  • Initial position of the ball is off by 3mm.
  • Simple controller:
\begin{aligned} \underset{q^\mathrm{u}_+, u}{\min} &\|q_+^\mathrm{u} - q_+^\mathrm{u, ref}\|_\mathbf{Q} + \|u - u^\mathrm{ref} \|_\mathbf{R}, \text{s.t.}\\ & q^\mathrm{u}_+ = \mathbf{A}_\rho^\mathrm{u} q^\mathrm{u} + \mathbf{B}_\rho^\mathrm{u} u \end{aligned}

Smooth linearization

Task: turning the ball by 30 degrees.

stabilizing_contact_rich_trajectories

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stabilizing_contact_rich_trajectories

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