STANCE

Locomotion Adaptation over Soft Terrain

Shamel Fahmi, Michele Focchi, Andreea Radulescu, Geoff Fink, Victor Barasuol and Claudio Semini

Dynamic Legged Systems (DLS) lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

Dynamic Walking

May 2020

taken from Andrea del Prete, 2019

Shamel Fahmi

• Most WBCs are not terrain aware.  They fail to generalize beyond rigid terrain.

• Mismatch between what the WBC assumes vs. what is actually happening

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• Drop the assumption of the rigid terrain. Use a more generic model that accounts for the terrain impedance 

• But that’s not enough, how do you know the impedance parameters of the terrain. 

• Hmm, estimate it?

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Soft Terrain Adaptation aNd Compliance Estimation
(STANCE)

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Shamel Fahmi

• STANCE

  • Adapt online to any type of terrain compliance

  • C3WBC

    • ​Extends the sWBC but incorporating soft contact dynamics

    • C3WBC can adapt to the given terrain compliance

  • ​TCE

    • ​Estimate the terrain compliance online

    • Not computationally expensive

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• ​State Estimation

• Low level torque control

• Limitations of STANCE

• Future Directions

• ​State Estimation

• Model Predictive Control

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O. Villarreal et.al., ''MPC-based Controller with Terrain Insight for Dynamic Legged Locomotion'', ICRA 2020

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