Safe Navigation of Bipedal Robots via Koopman Operator-Based Model Predictive Control

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Autori principali: Kim, Jeonghwan, Han, Yunhai, Ravichandar, Harish, Ha, Sehoon
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Kim, Jeonghwan
Han, Yunhai
Ravichandar, Harish
Ha, Sehoon
author_facet Kim, Jeonghwan
Han, Yunhai
Ravichandar, Harish
Ha, Sehoon
contents Nonlinearity in dynamics has long been a major challenge in robotics, often causing significant performance degradation in existing control algorithms. For example, the navigation of bipedal robots can exhibit nonlinear behaviors even under simple velocity commands, as their actual dynamics are governed by complex whole-body movements and discrete contacts. In this work, we propose a safe navigation framework inspired by Koopman operator theory. We first train a low-level locomotion policy using deep reinforcement learning, and then capture its low-frequency, base-level dynamics by learning linearized dynamics in a high-dimensional lifted space. Then, our model-predictive controller (MPC) efficiently optimizes control signals via a standard quadratic objective and the linear dynamics constraint in the lifted space. We demonstrate that the Koopman model more accurately predicts bipedal robot trajectories than baseline approaches. We also show that the proposed navigation framework achieves improved safety with better success rates in dense environments with narrow passages.
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spellingShingle Safe Navigation of Bipedal Robots via Koopman Operator-Based Model Predictive Control
Kim, Jeonghwan
Han, Yunhai
Ravichandar, Harish
Ha, Sehoon
Robotics
Nonlinearity in dynamics has long been a major challenge in robotics, often causing significant performance degradation in existing control algorithms. For example, the navigation of bipedal robots can exhibit nonlinear behaviors even under simple velocity commands, as their actual dynamics are governed by complex whole-body movements and discrete contacts. In this work, we propose a safe navigation framework inspired by Koopman operator theory. We first train a low-level locomotion policy using deep reinforcement learning, and then capture its low-frequency, base-level dynamics by learning linearized dynamics in a high-dimensional lifted space. Then, our model-predictive controller (MPC) efficiently optimizes control signals via a standard quadratic objective and the linear dynamics constraint in the lifted space. We demonstrate that the Koopman model more accurately predicts bipedal robot trajectories than baseline approaches. We also show that the proposed navigation framework achieves improved safety with better success rates in dense environments with narrow passages.
title Safe Navigation of Bipedal Robots via Koopman Operator-Based Model Predictive Control
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14736