ACLM: ADMM-Based Distributed Model Predictive Control for Collaborative Loco-Manipulation

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Autori principali: Zhou, Ziyi, Shu, Pengyuan, Cao, Ruize, Zhao, Yuntian, Zhao, Ye
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Zhou, Ziyi
Shu, Pengyuan
Cao, Ruize
Zhao, Yuntian
Zhao, Ye
author_facet Zhou, Ziyi
Shu, Pengyuan
Cao, Ruize
Zhao, Yuntian
Zhao, Ye
contents Collaborative transportation of heavy payloads via loco-manipulation is a challenging yet essential capability for legged robots operating in complex, unstructured environments. Centralized planning methods, e.g., holistic trajectory optimization, capture dynamic coupling among robots and payloads but scale poorly with system size, limiting real-time applicability. In contrast, hierarchical and fully decentralized approaches often neglect force and dynamic interactions, leading to conservative behavior. This study proposes an Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM)-based distributed model predictive control framework for collaborative loco-manipulation with a team of quadruped robots with manipulators. By exploiting the payload-induced coupling structure, the global optimal control problem is decomposed into parallel individual-robot-level subproblems with consensus constraints. The distributed planner operates in a receding-horizon fashion and achieves fast convergence, requiring only a few ADMM iterations per planning cycle. A wrench-aware whole-body controller executes the planned trajectories, tracking both motion and interaction wrenches. Extensive simulations with up to four robots demonstrate scalability, real-time performance, and robustness to model uncertainty.
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spellingShingle ACLM: ADMM-Based Distributed Model Predictive Control for Collaborative Loco-Manipulation
Zhou, Ziyi
Shu, Pengyuan
Cao, Ruize
Zhao, Yuntian
Zhao, Ye
Robotics
Systems and Control
Collaborative transportation of heavy payloads via loco-manipulation is a challenging yet essential capability for legged robots operating in complex, unstructured environments. Centralized planning methods, e.g., holistic trajectory optimization, capture dynamic coupling among robots and payloads but scale poorly with system size, limiting real-time applicability. In contrast, hierarchical and fully decentralized approaches often neglect force and dynamic interactions, leading to conservative behavior. This study proposes an Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM)-based distributed model predictive control framework for collaborative loco-manipulation with a team of quadruped robots with manipulators. By exploiting the payload-induced coupling structure, the global optimal control problem is decomposed into parallel individual-robot-level subproblems with consensus constraints. The distributed planner operates in a receding-horizon fashion and achieves fast convergence, requiring only a few ADMM iterations per planning cycle. A wrench-aware whole-body controller executes the planned trajectories, tracking both motion and interaction wrenches. Extensive simulations with up to four robots demonstrate scalability, real-time performance, and robustness to model uncertainty.
title ACLM: ADMM-Based Distributed Model Predictive Control for Collaborative Loco-Manipulation
topic Robotics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07095