Dynamic whole-body motion generation under rigid contacts and other unilateral constraints

L Saab, OE Ramos, F Keith, N Mansard… - IEEE Transactions …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The most widely used technique for generating whole-body motions on a humanoid robot
accounting for various tasks and constraints is inverse kinematics. Based on the task …

Quadrupedal locomotion using hierarchical operational space control

M Hutter, H Sommer, C Gehring… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents the application of operational space control based on hierarchical task
optimization for quadrupedal locomotion. We show how the behavior of a complex robotic …

Improved computation of the humanoid centroidal dynamics and application for whole-body control

PM Wensing, DE Orin - International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 2016 - World Scientific
The control of centroidal momentum has recently emerged as an important component of
whole-body humanoid control, resulting in emergent upper-body motions and increased …

Generalized hierarchical control

M Liu, Y Tan, V Padois - Autonomous Robots, 2016 - Springer
Multi-objective control systems for complex robots usually have to handle multiple prioritized
tasks. Most existing hierarchical control techniques handle either strict task priorities by …

Prioritized motion–force control of constrained fully-actuated robots:“Task Space Inverse Dynamics”

A Del Prete, F Nori, G Metta, L Natale - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2015 - Elsevier
We present a new framework for prioritized multi-task motion/force control of fully-actuated
robots. This work is established on a careful review and comparison of the state of the art …

A dedicated solver for fast operational-space inverse dynamics

N Mansard - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The most classical solution to generate whole-body motions on humanoid robots is to use
the inverse kinematics on a set of tasks. It enables flexibility, repeatability, sensor-feedback if …

A whole-body control framework based on the operational space formulation under inequality constraints via task-oriented optimization

Y Lee, S Kim, J Park, N Tsagarakis, J Lee - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents practical enhancements of the operational space formulation (OSF) to
exploit inequality constraints for whole-body control of a high degree of freedom robot with a …

On the coordination of highly dynamic human movements: an extension of the Uncontrolled Manifold approach applied to precision jump in parkour

G Maldonado, F Bailly, P Souères, B Watier - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
The human body generally has more degrees of freedom than necessary for generating a
given movement. According to the motor abundance principle, this redundancy is beneficial …

Variance modulated task prioritization in whole-body control

R Lober, V Padois, O Sigaud - 2015 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Whole-Body Control methods offer the potential to execute several tasks on highly
redundant robots, such as humanoids. Unfortunately, task combinations often result in …

Humanoids

P Fitzpatrick, K Harada, CC Kemp, Y Matsumoto… - Springer handbook of …, 2016 - Springer
Humanoid robots selectively immitate aspects of human form and behavior. Humanoids
come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from complete human-size legged robots to isolated …