考虑摆动腿动态的变长度柔性双足机器人步态切换控制研究

弹簧负载倒立摆模型是一种典型的双足行走模型,已经成为研究机器人类人行走的基础。本文在此模型的基础上进行了扩展,通过添加刚性躯干、脚质量及采用变长度伸缩腿,充分考虑了躯干及摆动腿动力学对机器人行走步态的影响。首先,利用欧拉–拉格朗日法推导了动力学方程。其次,设计了反馈线性化控制器来跟踪目标轨迹,以及调节摆动腿和躯干的姿态。第三,提出了步态切换策略,通过控制腿部长度和髋关节力矩来实现步态切换,从而改变平均行走速度。最后,通过计算机仿真验证了该方法的有效性。仿真结果表明：该控制策略能够有效地跟踪系统的期望轨迹及实现两种自然步态之间的切换,并形成稳定的极限环,实现机器人的稳定行走。

     

Treadmill walking of the pneumatic biped Lucy: Walking at different speeds and step-lengths

Actuators with adaptable compliance are gaining interest in the field of legged robotics due to their capability to store motion energy and to exploit the natural dynamics of the system to reduce energy consumption while walking and running. To perform research on compliant actuators we have built the planar biped Lucy. The robot has six actuated joints, the ankle, knee and hip of both legs with each joint powered by two pleated pneumatic artificial muscles in an antagonistic setup. This makes it possible to control both the torque and the stiffness of the joint. Such compliant actuators are used in passive walkers to overcome friction when walking over level ground and to improve stability. Typically, this kind of robots is only designed to walk with a constant walking speed and step-length, determined by the mechanical design of the mechanism and the properties of the ground. In this paper, we show that by an appropriate control, the robot Lucy is able to walk at different speeds and step-lengths and that adding and releasing weights does not affect the stability of the robot. To perform these experiments, an automated treadmill was built Published in Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 44, No. 7, pp. 134–142, July 2008.     

Dynamics and trajectory planning of a planar flipping robot

In this paper, a new planar one-legged robot model is firstly proposed, which, unlike previous one-legged robot with springy legs, consists of three revolute joints. Then a novel manner of one-legged locomotion (i.e., ballistic flip) is designed for this robot. A complete flipping gait cycle is composed of four phases: two stance phases and two flight phases. During flight phases, no active control is needed on the knee joint. Rotational motion and translational motion is decoupled from each other in flight phases. Landing of the robot is regarded as an inelastic impulsive impact. During stance phases, the robot model can be simplified as a two-degree-of-freedom rigid manipulator. Based on analysis of kinematics and dynamics of the flip robot, trajectory planning of cyclic flip gait is formulized as a problem of numerical optimization subject to nonlinear constraints such as positive reaction force of ground and finite torque of the joints. One potential application of the flipping robot is space exploration, which urgently requires the legged locomotive robots to be light-weighted and energy efficient.     

Dynamic delayed feedback control for stabilizing the giant swing motions of an underactuated three-link gymnastic robot

This paper investigates the dynamics of the giant swing motions of an underactuated three-link gymnastic robot moving in a vertical plane by means of dynamic delayed feedback control (DDFC). DDFC, being one of useful methods to overcome the so-called odd number limitation in controlling a chaotic discrete-time system, is extended to control a continuous-time system such as a 3-link gymnastic robot with passive joint. Meanwhile, a way to calculate the error transfer matrix and the input matrix which are necessary for discretization is proposed, based on a Poincaré section which is defined to regard the target system as a discrete-time system. Moreover, the stability of the closed-loop system by the proposed control strategy is discussed. Furthermore, some numerical simulations are presented to show the effectiveness in controlling a chaotic motion of the 3-link gymnastic robot to a periodic giant swing motion.     

一类关节型机器人操作手的迭代学习控制

针对一类机器人操作手，提出了一种设计机器人操作手迭代学习控制的新方法，与其它现有的迭代学习控制方法相比较，当折合到机器人操作手关节轴上的驱动装置惯量足够大时，可以用驱动装置的动力学特性参数确定学习增益，克服了传统迭代学习控制方法由多次尝试选取学习增益的缺点，增强了实用性。在实际机器人操作手上的实验结果充分表明了新提出方法可获得较高学习速度和控制精度的优越性。     

A proposed hybrid neural network for position control of a walking robot

The use of a proposed recurrent neural network control system to control a four-legged walking robot is presented in this paper. The control system consists of a neural controller, a standard PD controller, and the walking robot. The robot is a planar four-legged walking robot. The proposed Neural Network (NN) is employed as an inverse controller of the robot. The NN has three layers, which are input, hybrid hidden and output layers. In addition to feedforward connections from the input layer to the hidden layer and from the hidden layer to the output layer, there is also a feedback connection from the output layer to the hidden layer and from the hidden layer to itself. The reason to use a hybrid layer is that the robot’s dynamics consists of linear and nonlinear parts. The results show that the neural-network controller can efficiently control the prescribed positions of the stance and swing legs during the double stance phase of the gait cycle after sufficient training periods. The goal of the use of this proposed neural network is to increase the robustness of the control of the dynamic walking gait of this robot in the case of external disturbances. Also, the PD controller alone and Computed Torque Method (CTM) control system are used to control the walking robot’s position for comparison.     

Bifurcation and chaos of a simple walking model driven by a rhythmic signal

The walk of animals is achieved by the interaction between the dynamics of their mechanical system and the central pattern generator (CPG). In this paper, we analyze dynamic properties of a simple walking model of a biped robot driven by a rhythmic signal from an oscillator. In particular, we examine the long-term global behavior and the bifurcation of the motion that leads to chaotic motion, depending on the model parameter values. The simple model consists of a hip and two legs connected at the hip through a rotational joint. The joint is driven by a rhythmic signal from an oscillator, which is an open loop. In order to analyze the bifurcation, we first obtained approximate solutions of the walking motion and then constructed discrete dynamics using the Poincaré map. As a result, we found that consecutive period-doubling bifurcations occur as the model parameter values change, and that the walking motion leads to chaotic motion over the critical value of the model parameters. Moreover, we approximately obtained the period-doubling solutions and the critical value by employing a Newton-Raphson method. Our analytical results were verified by the numerical simulations.     

The behaviour of a simple pendulum with uniformly shortening string length

Whilst watching the loading of a ship by crane it is often observed that the cargo shifts abruptly during the lifting stage. In order to try to understand this kind of behaviour the motion of a simple undamped pendulum, which is being shortened at a constant speed, is determined. It is found that the tension in the string always increases initially from its static value and that this increase in tension is very large even when the initial angular speed is small. Finally, it is proved that the linearised approximation is most unsatisfactory even when the initial amplitude of the swing and the shortening rate are small.     

机器人关节非线性摩擦模型关键参数反求

机器人关节非线性摩擦的准确描述对提高机器人轨迹精度、定位精度及其可靠性等具有重要理论意义和科学价值. 然而, 机器人关节通常包含电机、减速器、驱动器和传感器, 是一个复杂的机电耦合系统, 随服役时间及工况的变化, 机器人关节的摩擦参数也存在显著时变效应, 难以准确描述, 造成轨迹精度下降, 为机器人后期精度维护造成巨大困难. 因此, 本文定量评价了摩擦参数对机器人输出力矩的影响, 提出考虑时变效应的机器人关节非线性摩擦参数反求方法. 首先, 建立机器人关节一般非线性摩擦模型. 设计机器人关节恒速跟踪实验, 通过卡尔曼滤波对实验采集的数据进行处理, 进而建立关节速度和驱动电机电流之间的关系, 完成关节一般非线性摩擦模型建立. 其次, 择取非线性摩擦模型关键参数. 建立包含非线性摩擦的机器人动力学模型, 基于激励轨迹计算各关节力矩, 并对其开展灵敏度分析, 择取对关节力矩灵敏性较高的摩擦参数. 再次, 建立关节输出力矩和摩擦参数一一对应的数据集. 基于实际工况构建摩擦参数取值空间, 采用最优拉丁超立方法对摩擦参数采样, 并将其代入机器人动力学模型计算出相应的力矩, 从而求得关节输出力矩和摩擦参数一一对应的数据集. 最后, 建立反问题神经网络并对其进行训练, 实现非线性摩擦模型关键参数反求, 并进行验证. 研究结果表明关节非线性摩擦的准确描述减小了机器人低速运动换向时摩擦力矩突变对机器人轨迹的影响, 显著提升了机器人轨迹精度.      

Suppressing chaos in crystal growth process using adaptive phase resonant perturbation

Chaos occurs in the flexible shaft rotating-lifting (FSRL) system of crystal growth process. Chaotic swing does harm to the quality of mono-silicon crystal production. Therefore, it must be suppressed. Previous studies have proposed impulse control method to suppress the chaos in crystal growth process. However, the impulses require sudden and intermittent changes to the rotation speed, which are difficult to implement through the soft rope connection. In this work, a small amplitude resonant perturbation to the rotation speed is being proposed to suppress chaos in the FSRL system. The system state, given by the swing angle between the rotation center on the vertical axis and the soft shaft, is observed by measuring the force on the soft shaft and by using the untraced Kalman filter. The control parameters are selected by calculating the Lyapunov exponent. As compared with the previous impulse control methods, the proposed small amplitude resonant perturbation method engenders a small continuous change instead of the sudden change in the rotation speed. In addition, the proposed method does not alter the average rotation speed, which complies with the crystal growth technique requirement. The effectiveness of the proposed chaos control method is validated by numerical simulations.

     

DYNAMICS MODELING,SIMULATION, AND CONTROL OF ROBOTS WITH FLEXIBLE JOINTS AND FLEXIBLE LINKS$^{\bf 1)}$

本文探究了铰柔性对机器人动力学响应和动力学控制的影响. 首先, 建立由$n$个柔性铰和$n$个柔性杆组成的空间机器人模型, 运用递推拉格朗日动力学方法, 得到柔性机器人系统的刚柔耦合动力学方程. 在动力学建模过程中, 除了考虑杆件的拉伸变形、弯曲变形、扭转变形以及非线性耦合变形对机器人系统动力学行为的影响, 还考虑了铰的柔性对机器人动力学响应和控制的影响. 其中, 柔性铰模型是基于Spong的柔性关节简化模型, 将柔性铰看成线性扭转弹簧, 不仅考虑了铰阻尼的存在, 还考虑了柔性铰的质量效应. 其次, 编写了空间柔性铰柔性杆机器人仿真程序, 研究铰的刚度系数和阻尼系数对系统动力学响应的影响. 研究表明: 随着柔性铰刚度系数的增大, 柔性机器人的动态响应幅值减小, 振动频率变大. 随着柔性铰阻尼系数的增大, 柔性机器人的动态响应幅值减小, 振动幅值的衰减速度变快. 可通过调节柔性铰的刚度和阻尼来减小柔性铰柔性杆机器人的振动, 因此铰阻尼的研究具有重要工程意义. 最后, 研究了铰柔性在机器人系统动力学控制中的影响. 在刚性铰机械臂和柔性铰机械臂完成相同圆周运动时, 通过逆动力学方法求解得到两种情况下的关节驱动力矩. 研究表明: 引入柔性铰会使控制所需的驱动力矩变小, 对机器人控制的影响显著.     

柔性铰柔性杆机器人动力学建模、仿真和控制

本文探究了铰柔性对机器人动力学响应和动力学控制的影响. 首先, 建立由$n$个柔性铰和$n$个柔性杆组成的空间机器人模型, 运用递推拉格朗日动力学方法, 得到柔性机器人系统的刚柔耦合动力学方程. 在动力学建模过程中, 除了考虑杆件的拉伸变形、弯曲变形、扭转变形以及非线性耦合变形对机器人系统动力学行为的影响, 还考虑了铰的柔性对机器人动力学响应和控制的影响. 其中, 柔性铰模型是基于Spong的柔性关节简化模型, 将柔性铰看成线性扭转弹簧, 不仅考虑了铰阻尼的存在, 还考虑了柔性铰的质量效应. 其次, 编写了空间柔性铰柔性杆机器人仿真程序, 研究铰的刚度系数和阻尼系数对系统动力学响应的影响. 研究表明: 随着柔性铰刚度系数的增大, 柔性机器人的动态响应幅值减小, 振动频率变大. 随着柔性铰阻尼系数的增大, 柔性机器人的动态响应幅值减小, 振动幅值的衰减速度变快. 可通过调节柔性铰的刚度和阻尼来减小柔性铰柔性杆机器人的振动, 因此铰阻尼的研究具有重要工程意义. 最后, 研究了铰柔性在机器人系统动力学控制中的影响. 在刚性铰机械臂和柔性铰机械臂完成相同圆周运动时, 通过逆动力学方法求解得到两种情况下的关节驱动力矩. 研究表明: 引入柔性铰会使控制所需的驱动力矩变小, 对机器人控制的影响显著.      

Swimming performance of a biomimetic compliant fish-like robot

Digital particle image velocimetry and fluorescent dye visualization are used to characterize the performance of fish-like swimming robots. During nominal swimming, these robots produce a ‘V’-shaped double wake, with two reverse-Kármán streets in the far wake. The Reynolds number based on swimming speed and body length is approximately 7500, and the Strouhal number based on flapping frequency, flapping amplitude, and swimming speed is 0.86. It is found that swimming speed scales with the strength and geometry of a composite wake, which is constructed by freezing each vortex at the location of its centroid at the time of shedding. Specifically, we find that swimming speed scales linearly with vortex circulation. Also, swimming speed scales linearly with flapping frequency and the width of the composite wake. The thrust produced by the swimming robot is estimated using a simple vortex dynamics model, and we find satisfactory agreement between this estimate and measurements made during static load tests.     

Global motion analysis of energy-based control for 3-link planar robot with a single actuator at the first joint

This paper studies nonlinear control of a 3-link planar robot moving in the vertical plane with only the first joint being actuated while the two other revolute joints are passive (called the APP robot below). A nonlinear energy-based controller is proposed, whose objective is to drive the APP robot into an invariant set where the first link is in the upright position and the total mechanical energy converges to its value at the upright equilibrium point (all three links are in the upright position). By presenting and using a new property of the motion of the APP robot, without any condition on its mechanical parameters, this paper proves that if the control gains are larger than specific lower bounds, then only a measure-zero set of initial conditions converges to three strictly unstable equilibrium points instead of converging to the invariant set. This paper presents numerical results for a physical 3-link planar robot to validate the obtained theoretical results and to demonstrate a switch–and–stabilize maneuver in which the energy-based controller is switched to a linear state feedback controller that stabilizes the APP robot at its upright equilibrium point.     

Curvilinear motion of an ellipsoidal bubble

The Lagrange equations are used to investigate the curvilinear motion of an ellipsoidal bubble. At a small inclination of the minor axis of the ellipsoid to the vertical, the ellipsoid begins to oscillate about the equilibrium position and its trajectory begins to swing. Analytic expressions are presented for the oscillation frequency and for the ratio of the swing amplitude to the amplitude of the oscillations of the ellipsoid. It is assumed that the bubble has the form of an axially symmetrical ellipsoid [1].Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 3, pp. 90–93, May–June, 1971.     

Disturbance compensation of a dual-arm underwater robot via redundant parallel mechanism theory

Disturbance compensation is one of the major issues for underwater robots to hover as a mobile platform and to manipulate an object in an underwater environment. This paper presents a new strategy of disturbance compensation for a mobile dual-arm underwater robot using internal torques derived from redundant parallel mechanism theory. A model of the robot was analyzed by redundant serial and parallel mechanisms at the same time. The joint torque to operate the robot is obtained from a redundant serial mechanism model with null-space projection due to redundancy. The joint torque derived from the redundant parallel kinematic model is calculated to perfectly compensate for disturbances to the mobile platform and is included in the solution of the joint torque based on the serial redundant model. The resultant joint torque can generate force on the end-effector for required tasks and forces for disturbance compensation simultaneously . A simulation shows the performance of this disturbance compensation strategy. The joint torque based on the algorithm generates the desired task force and the disturbance compensation force together, and a little additional joint torque can generate a large internal force effectively due to the characteristics of a redundant parallel mechanism. The proposed method is more effective than compensation methods using thrusting force on the mobile platform.     

Nonlinear dynamics in the flexible shaft rotating–lifting system of silicon crystal puller using Czochralski method

Silicon crystal puller (SCP) is key equipment in silicon wafer manufacture, which is, in turn, the base material for the most currently used integrated circuit chips. With the development of the techniques, the demand for longer mono-silicon crystal rod with larger diameter is continuously increasing in order to reduce the manufacture time and the price of the wafer. This demand calls for larger SCP with an increasing height, though it causes serious swing phenomenon of the crystal seed. The strong swing of the seed increases the possibility of defects in the mono-silicon rod and the risk of mono-silicon growth failure. The main aim of this paper is to analyze the nonlinear dynamics in flexible shaft rotating–lifting (FSRL) system of the SCP. A mathematical model for the swing motion of the FSRL system is derived. The influence of relevant parameters, such as system damping, excitation amplitude, and rotation speed, on the stability and the responses of the system is analyzed. The stability of the equilibrium, bifurcation, and chaotic motion is demonstrated, which have been observed in practical situations. Melnikov method is used to derive the possible parameter region which leads to chaotic motion. Three routes to chaos are identified in the FSRL system, including period doubling, symmetry-breaking bifurcation, and crisis. The work in this paper analyzes and explains the complex dynamics in FSRL system of the SCP, which will be helpful for the designers in the designing process in order to avoid the swing phenomenon in the SCP.

     

一种改进的冲量测试装置及其数据处理方法

对摆锤式片炸药比冲量测试装置及其数据处理方法进行了改进。首先,在对机械结构进行了改进设计的基础上,利用光栅测试系统测量摆动角度,并解决了测试时波形失真的问题,提高了装置的精密性和稳定性。然后,采用该装置研究了阻尼随摆动幅度的变化规律,并用实测数据进行了验证;提出了片炸药比冲量测试时的最大摆角修正方法,并进行了试验对比研究。结果表明:改进后的装置及其数据处理方法能够更加准确地测量片炸药的比冲量。     

A robotic model for Codman's paradox simulation and interpretation

A robotic approach based on Denavit–Hartenberg parametrization is proposed for simulating and interpreting Codman's paradox. A 3-degree-of-freedom robot model of the glenohumeral joint, driving the arm reduced to its long humerus, is considered for simulating the two-step rotational sequence of Codman's paradox. We propose to use the classical distinction made in robotics between the joint space, i.e. the inner space of joint angles, and the operational space, i.e. the outer physical space, for interpreting this historical version of the paradox, as there is some kind of confusion between these two spaces to be considered for arm movement definition. In its extended form, developed by MacConnail, the three-step rotational sequence of Codman's paradox would highlight the motor redundancy of the shoulder joint, necessitating for its simulation, according to our robotic approach, a 4-axis model of the shoulder spheroid joint. Our model provides a general prediction of the conjunct rotation angle in full accordance with clinical observation for a two-step or three-step version of Codman's paradox. The relation of the paradox with a possible general law of motion is finally discussed.