Humanoid Walking Robot Modeling, Inverse Dynamics, and Gain Scheduling Control.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Robotics Volume 2010, Article ID 278597, 19 pages doi:10.1155/2010/278597 Research Article Humanoid Walking Robot: Modeling, Inverse Dynamics, and Gain Scheduling Control Elvedin Kljuno and Robert L. Williams II Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ohio University, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Robert L. Williams II, williar4@ Received 23 December 2009; Revised 28 May 2010; Accepted 9 August 2010 Academic Editor: Nilanjan Sarkar Copyright © 2010 E. Kljuno and R. L. Williams II. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This article presents reference-model-based control design for a 10 degree-of-freedom bipedal walking robot, using nonlinear gain scheduling. The main goal is to show concentrated mass models can be used for prediction of the required joint torques for a bipedal walking robot. Relatively complicated architecture, high DOF, and balancing requirements make the control task of these robots difficult. Although linear control techniques can be used to control bipedal robots, nonlinear control is necessary for better performance. The emphasis of this work is to show that the reference model can be a bipedal walking model with concentrated mass at the center of gravity, which removes the problems related to design of a pseudo-inverse system. Another significance of this approach is the reduced calculation requirements due to the simplified procedure of nominal joint torques calculation. Kinematic and dynamic analysis is discussed including results for joint torques and ground force necessary to implement a prescribed walking