Maximize the Foot Clearance for a Hopping Robotic Leg Considering Motor Saturation

07/29/2021
by   Juntong Su, et al.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
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A hopping leg, no matter in legged animals or humans, usually behaves like a spring during the periodic hopping. Hopping like a spring is efficient and without the requirement of complicated control algorithms. Position and force control are two main methods to realize such a spring-like behaviour. The position control usually consumes the torque resources to ensure the position accuracy and compensate the tracking errors. In comparison, the force control strategy is able to maintain a high elasticity. Currently, the position and force control both leads to the discount of motor saturation ratio as well as the bandwidth of the control system, and thus attenuates the performance of the actuator. To augment the performance, this letter proposes a motor saturation strategy based on the force control to maximize the output torque of the actuator and realize the continuous hopping motion with natural dynamics. The proposed strategy is able to maximize the saturation ratio of motor and thus maximize the foot clearance of the single leg. The dynamics of the two-mass model is utilized to increase the force bandwidth and the performance of the actuator. A single leg with two degrees of freedom is designed as the experiment platform. The actuator consists of a powerful electric motor, a harmonic gear and encoder. The effectiveness of this method is verified through simulations and experiments using a robotic leg actuated by powerful high reduction ratio actuators.

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