Online Friction Coefficient Identification for Legged Robots on Slippery Terrain Using Smoothed Contact Gradients
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| author | Kim, Hajun Kang, Dongyun Kim, Min-Gyu Kim, Gijeong Park, Hae-Won |
| author_facet | Kim, Hajun Kang, Dongyun Kim, Min-Gyu Kim, Gijeong Park, Hae-Won |
| contents | This paper proposes an online friction coefficient identification framework for legged robots on slippery terrain. The approach formulates the optimization problem to minimize the sum of residuals between actual and predicted states parameterized by the friction coefficient in rigid body contact dynamics. Notably, the proposed framework leverages the analytic smoothed gradient of contact impulses, obtained by smoothing the complementarity condition of Coulomb friction, to solve the issue of non-informative gradients induced from the nonsmooth contact dynamics. Moreover, we introduce the rejection method to filter out data with high normal contact velocity following contact initiations during friction coefficient identification for legged robots. To validate the proposed framework, we conduct the experiments using a quadrupedal robot platform, KAIST HOUND, on slippery and nonslippery terrain. We observe that our framework achieves fast and consistent friction coefficient identification within various initial conditions. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Online Friction Coefficient Identification for Legged Robots on Slippery Terrain Using Smoothed Contact Gradients Kim, Hajun Kang, Dongyun Kim, Min-Gyu Kim, Gijeong Park, Hae-Won Robotics This paper proposes an online friction coefficient identification framework for legged robots on slippery terrain. The approach formulates the optimization problem to minimize the sum of residuals between actual and predicted states parameterized by the friction coefficient in rigid body contact dynamics. Notably, the proposed framework leverages the analytic smoothed gradient of contact impulses, obtained by smoothing the complementarity condition of Coulomb friction, to solve the issue of non-informative gradients induced from the nonsmooth contact dynamics. Moreover, we introduce the rejection method to filter out data with high normal contact velocity following contact initiations during friction coefficient identification for legged robots. To validate the proposed framework, we conduct the experiments using a quadrupedal robot platform, KAIST HOUND, on slippery and nonslippery terrain. We observe that our framework achieves fast and consistent friction coefficient identification within various initial conditions. |
| title | Online Friction Coefficient Identification for Legged Robots on Slippery Terrain Using Smoothed Contact Gradients |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16843 |