Muscle-like Compliance in Knee Articulations Improves Biped Robot Walkings
Résumé
This chapter focuses on the compliance effect of dynamic humanoid robot walking.
This compliance is generated with an articular muscle emulator system, which is
designed using two neural networks (NNs). One NN models a muscle and a second
learns to tune the proportional integral derivative (PID) of the articulation DC motor,
allowing it to behave analogously to the muscle model. Muscle emulators are
implemented in the knees of a three‐dimensional (3D) simulated biped robot. The
simulation results show that the muscle emulator creates compliance in articulations
and that the dynamic walk, even in walk‐halt‐stop transitions, improves. If an external
thrust unbalances the biped during the walk, the muscle emulator improves the control
and prevents the robot from falling. The total power consumption is significantly
reduced, and the articular trajectories approach human trajectories.