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Main Authors: Demont, Arnaud, Benallegue, Mehdi, Benallegue, Abdelaziz, Gergondet, Pierre, Dallard, Antonin, Cisneros, Rafael, Murooka, Masaki, Kanehiro, Fumio
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13267
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author Demont, Arnaud
Benallegue, Mehdi
Benallegue, Abdelaziz
Gergondet, Pierre
Dallard, Antonin
Cisneros, Rafael
Murooka, Masaki
Kanehiro, Fumio
author_facet Demont, Arnaud
Benallegue, Mehdi
Benallegue, Abdelaziz
Gergondet, Pierre
Dallard, Antonin
Cisneros, Rafael
Murooka, Masaki
Kanehiro, Fumio
contents In this paper, we propose the "Kinetics Observer", a novel estimator addressing the challenge of state estimation for legged robots using proprioceptive sensors (encoders, IMU and force/torque sensors). Based on a Multiplicative Extended Kalman Filter, the Kinetics Observer allows the real-time simultaneous estimation of contact and perturbation forces, and of the robot's kinematics, which are accurate enough to perform proprioceptive odometry. Thanks to a visco-elastic model of the contacts linking their kinematics to the ones of the centroid of the robot, the Kinetics Observer ensures a tight coupling between the whole-body kinematics and dynamics of the robot. This coupling entails a redundancy of the measurements that enhances the robustness and the accuracy of the estimation. This estimator was tested on two humanoid robots performing long distance walking on even terrain and non-coplanar multi-contact locomotion.
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spellingShingle The Kinetics Observer: A Tightly Coupled Estimator for Legged Robots
Demont, Arnaud
Benallegue, Mehdi
Benallegue, Abdelaziz
Gergondet, Pierre
Dallard, Antonin
Cisneros, Rafael
Murooka, Masaki
Kanehiro, Fumio
Robotics
In this paper, we propose the "Kinetics Observer", a novel estimator addressing the challenge of state estimation for legged robots using proprioceptive sensors (encoders, IMU and force/torque sensors). Based on a Multiplicative Extended Kalman Filter, the Kinetics Observer allows the real-time simultaneous estimation of contact and perturbation forces, and of the robot's kinematics, which are accurate enough to perform proprioceptive odometry. Thanks to a visco-elastic model of the contacts linking their kinematics to the ones of the centroid of the robot, the Kinetics Observer ensures a tight coupling between the whole-body kinematics and dynamics of the robot. This coupling entails a redundancy of the measurements that enhances the robustness and the accuracy of the estimation. This estimator was tested on two humanoid robots performing long distance walking on even terrain and non-coplanar multi-contact locomotion.
title The Kinetics Observer: A Tightly Coupled Estimator for Legged Robots
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13267