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Practical whole-body elasto-geometric calibration of a humanoid robot: Application to the TALOS robot

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The whole-body elasto-geometrical calibration of humanoid robots is critical particularly for their control and accurate simulation. However, it is often not considered probably since it is a nontrivial task due to the mechanical complexity and inherent constraints of anthropomorphic structures. Also, humanoid robots have to sustain great efforts on their support legs, leading to link and joint being deformed, and are prone to auto-collision. Thus, elastic parameters have to be factored in in addition to the geometric ones and to improve the precision of the pose of all robot segments. This is much more cumbersome and time consuming than the classical calibration of serial manipulators that deals solely with the estimation of the pose of the end-effector. Finally, due to the complexity of the task, a manual intervention in several steps of the calibration is no longer possible and a thorough automation of the approach is needed. Therefore, we propose to use a stereophotogrammetric system along with embedded joint torque sensors to calibrate the pose of all robot links with a fully automatic procedure. The generation of the minimal set of optimal calibration postures is based on a new iterative optimization process that leads to a stable maximum of an observability index. Then full set of geometrical parameters but also joint and base elastic parameters were calibrated using a single leastsquare optimization program. The proposed method was validated on a TALOS humanoid robot allowing to obtain an accurate whole-body calibration in less than 10 minutes. The proposed approach was cross-validated experimentally and showed an average RMS error of the tracked markers of 2.2mm.
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hal-04222944 , version 1 (29-09-2023)

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Vincent Bonnet, Joseph Mirabel, David Daney, Florent Lamiraux, Maxime Gautier, et al.. Practical whole-body elasto-geometric calibration of a humanoid robot: Application to the TALOS robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2023, 164, pp.104365. ⟨10.1016/j.robot.2023.104365⟩. ⟨hal-04222944⟩
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