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Axel Schneider

at Univ Bielefeld

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Proceedings Article | 22 May 2007 Paper

A self-adjusting negative feedback joint controller for legs standing on moving substrates of unknown compliance

Axel Schneider, Holk Cruse, Björn Fischer, Josef Schmitz

Proceedings Volume 6592, 65920M (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.721723

KEYWORDS: Negative feedback, Optical correlators, Device simulation, Switches, Positive feedback, Feedback control, Kinematics, Linear filtering, Adaptive control, Electronic filtering

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Some recent robot controllers for hexapod walking have been developed based on investigations of stick insects. These animals live in an unpredictable environment that consists of twigs and leaves. Supports like twigs, leaves and branches induce a considerable amount of movement to the legs and their elastic joints. Earlier studies proposed negative feedback PD-controllers to regulate the angles of the knee joints to handle this situation. Recent studies suggest that the behaviour of the joint controller depends on the compliance of the substrate the insect is standing on. On highly elastic substrates (e.g. leaves) the joint controller exhibits an I-characteristic. Deviations from the original position are compensated completely. On moderately elastic substrates (e.g. twigs) the joint controller comprises a P-characteristic. The leg attains a resting position that differs from the original position through application of a specific compensation force. On stiff substrates the knee joint seems to be controlled by a D-controller. If the leg endpoint is forced away from the original position by an external disturbance (e.g. a moving branch), the controller compensates this deviation by activation of the according muscle which results in a counter force. After some time the controller seems to "give up." The force decreases to zero. To model these results, we propose a self-adjusting joint controller that changes its own setpoint in dependance of the substrate stiffness. The substrate stiffness is determined by means of a correlator circuit that compares (superimposed) movement commands with the actual responses of the leg joint. The new controller can be used for the control of legged robots.

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