UKF-Based Sensor Fusion for Joint-Torque Sensorless Humanoid Robots

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Autori principali: Sorrentino, Ines, Romualdi, Giulio, Pucci, Daniele
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Sorrentino, Ines
Romualdi, Giulio
Pucci, Daniele
author_facet Sorrentino, Ines
Romualdi, Giulio
Pucci, Daniele
contents This paper proposes a novel sensor fusion based on Unscented Kalman Filtering for the online estimation of joint-torques of humanoid robots without joint-torque sensors. At the feature level, the proposed approach considers multimodal measurements (e.g. currents, accelerations, etc.) and non-directly measurable effects, such as external contacts, thus leading to joint torques readily usable in control architectures for human-robot interaction. The proposed sensor fusion can also integrate distributed, non-collocated force/torque sensors, thus being a flexible framework with respect to the underlying robot sensor suit. To validate the approach, we show how the proposed sensor fusion can be integrated into a twolevel torque control architecture aiming at task-space torquecontrol. The performances of the proposed approach are shown through extensive tests on the new humanoid robot ergoCub, currently being developed at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. We also compare our strategy with the existing state-of-theart approach based on the recursive Newton-Euler algorithm. Results demonstrate that our method achieves low root mean square errors in torque tracking, ranging from 0.05 Nm to 2.5 Nm, even in the presence of external contacts.
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spellingShingle UKF-Based Sensor Fusion for Joint-Torque Sensorless Humanoid Robots
Sorrentino, Ines
Romualdi, Giulio
Pucci, Daniele
Robotics
This paper proposes a novel sensor fusion based on Unscented Kalman Filtering for the online estimation of joint-torques of humanoid robots without joint-torque sensors. At the feature level, the proposed approach considers multimodal measurements (e.g. currents, accelerations, etc.) and non-directly measurable effects, such as external contacts, thus leading to joint torques readily usable in control architectures for human-robot interaction. The proposed sensor fusion can also integrate distributed, non-collocated force/torque sensors, thus being a flexible framework with respect to the underlying robot sensor suit. To validate the approach, we show how the proposed sensor fusion can be integrated into a twolevel torque control architecture aiming at task-space torquecontrol. The performances of the proposed approach are shown through extensive tests on the new humanoid robot ergoCub, currently being developed at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. We also compare our strategy with the existing state-of-theart approach based on the recursive Newton-Euler algorithm. Results demonstrate that our method achieves low root mean square errors in torque tracking, ranging from 0.05 Nm to 2.5 Nm, even in the presence of external contacts.
title UKF-Based Sensor Fusion for Joint-Torque Sensorless Humanoid Robots
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18380