Autonomous legged hill ascent
Abstract
This paper reports on an autonomous ascent by a legged robotic platform in outdoor forested terrain. Two controllers govern the integration of online inertial measurement unit and light detection and ranging sensor signals into commands for climbing by means of an abstracted (unicycle) representation of the platform in support of different performance goals: a kinematic version for endurance and a dynamic version for speed. These control laws, backed by a suite of formal correctness guarantees, encourage a stripped‐down sensory suite supporting a simplified world model whose departures from the actual physical environment are handled by the mechanical competence of the legged platform. Both behaviors are implemented on a version of the legged RHex platform, and experiments spanning almost a kilometer (thousands of body lengths) in various challenging settings are conducted.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Mar 23, 2018
- Source ID
- 10.1002/rob.21779
Entities
People
- Aaron M. Johnson
- B. Deniz Ilhan
- Daniel E. Koditschek
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Carnegie Mellon University
- National Science Foundation
- United States Army Research Laboratory
- University of Pennsylvania