A Robust Quadruped Robot with Twisting Waist for Flexible Motions
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| author | Qian, Quancheng Wei, Xiaoyi Zhang, Zonghao Tu, Jiaxin Zhang, Yueqi Hou, Taixian Gao, Xiaofei Zhai, Peng Zhang, Lihua |
| author_facet | Qian, Quancheng Wei, Xiaoyi Zhang, Zonghao Tu, Jiaxin Zhang, Yueqi Hou, Taixian Gao, Xiaofei Zhai, Peng Zhang, Lihua |
| contents | The waist plays a crucial role in the agile movement of many animals in nature. It provides the torso with additional degrees of freedom and flexibility, inspiring researchers to incorporate this biological feature into robotic structures to enhance robot locomotion. This paper presents a cost-effective and low-complexity waist mechanism integrated into the structure of the open-source robot solo8, adding a new degree of freedom (DOF) to its torso. We refer to this novel robot as solo9. Additionally, we propose a full-body control method for the waist-equipped quadruped robot based on generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL). During training, the discriminator is used as input for iterative optimization of the policy and dataset, enabling solo9 to achieve flexible steering maneuvers across various gaits. Extensive tests of solo9's steering capabilities, terrain adaptability, and robustness are conducted in both simulation and real-world scenarios, with detailed comparisons to solo8 and solo12, demonstrating the effectiveness of the control algorithm and the advantages of the waist mechanism. |
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| spellingShingle | A Robust Quadruped Robot with Twisting Waist for Flexible Motions Qian, Quancheng Wei, Xiaoyi Zhang, Zonghao Tu, Jiaxin Zhang, Yueqi Hou, Taixian Gao, Xiaofei Zhai, Peng Zhang, Lihua Robotics The waist plays a crucial role in the agile movement of many animals in nature. It provides the torso with additional degrees of freedom and flexibility, inspiring researchers to incorporate this biological feature into robotic structures to enhance robot locomotion. This paper presents a cost-effective and low-complexity waist mechanism integrated into the structure of the open-source robot solo8, adding a new degree of freedom (DOF) to its torso. We refer to this novel robot as solo9. Additionally, we propose a full-body control method for the waist-equipped quadruped robot based on generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL). During training, the discriminator is used as input for iterative optimization of the policy and dataset, enabling solo9 to achieve flexible steering maneuvers across various gaits. Extensive tests of solo9's steering capabilities, terrain adaptability, and robustness are conducted in both simulation and real-world scenarios, with detailed comparisons to solo8 and solo12, demonstrating the effectiveness of the control algorithm and the advantages of the waist mechanism. |
| title | A Robust Quadruped Robot with Twisting Waist for Flexible Motions |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05884 |