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Main Authors: Csomay-Shanklin, Noel, Compton, William D., Rodriguez, Ivan Dario Jimenez, Ambrose, Eric R., Yue, Yisong, Ames, Aaron D.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06125
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author Csomay-Shanklin, Noel
Compton, William D.
Rodriguez, Ivan Dario Jimenez
Ambrose, Eric R.
Yue, Yisong
Ames, Aaron D.
author_facet Csomay-Shanklin, Noel
Compton, William D.
Rodriguez, Ivan Dario Jimenez
Ambrose, Eric R.
Yue, Yisong
Ames, Aaron D.
contents We study the design of robust and agile controllers for hybrid underactuated systems. Our approach breaks down the task of creating a stabilizing controller into: 1) learning a mapping that is invariant under optimal control, and 2) driving the actuated coordinates to the output of that mapping. This approach, termed Zero Dynamics Policies, exploits the structure of underactuation by restricting the inputs of the target mapping to the subset of degrees of freedom that cannot be directly actuated, thereby achieving significant dimension reduction. Furthermore, we retain the stability and constraint satisfaction of optimal control while reducing the online computational overhead. We prove that controllers of this type stabilize hybrid underactuated systems and experimentally validate our approach on the 3D hopping platform, ARCHER. Over the course of 3000 hops the proposed framework demonstrates robust agility, maintaining stable hopping while rejecting disturbances on rough terrain.
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spellingShingle Robust Agility via Learned Zero Dynamics Policies
Csomay-Shanklin, Noel
Compton, William D.
Rodriguez, Ivan Dario Jimenez
Ambrose, Eric R.
Yue, Yisong
Ames, Aaron D.
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We study the design of robust and agile controllers for hybrid underactuated systems. Our approach breaks down the task of creating a stabilizing controller into: 1) learning a mapping that is invariant under optimal control, and 2) driving the actuated coordinates to the output of that mapping. This approach, termed Zero Dynamics Policies, exploits the structure of underactuation by restricting the inputs of the target mapping to the subset of degrees of freedom that cannot be directly actuated, thereby achieving significant dimension reduction. Furthermore, we retain the stability and constraint satisfaction of optimal control while reducing the online computational overhead. We prove that controllers of this type stabilize hybrid underactuated systems and experimentally validate our approach on the 3D hopping platform, ARCHER. Over the course of 3000 hops the proposed framework demonstrates robust agility, maintaining stable hopping while rejecting disturbances on rough terrain.
title Robust Agility via Learned Zero Dynamics Policies
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06125