8 papers
Residual-Based Adaptive Kalman Filtering for Legged Robot State Estimation
Mihaela Popescu, Dennis Mronga, Shivesh Kumar +1
State estimation is a key component in model-based control of walking robots and, more broadly, applicable wherever hidden variables must be inferred. The Kalman filter is widely u…
Right Model, Right Time: Real-Time Cascaded-Fidelity MPC for Bipedal Walking
Franek Stark, Felix Wiebe, Shubham Vyas +2
This paper presents a multi-phase whole-body model predictive control (MPC) approach for bipedal walking, combining a detailed whole-body model in the near horizon with a simplifie…
InEKFormer: A Hybrid State Estimator for Humanoid Robots
Lasse Hohmeyer, Mihaela Popescu, Ivan Bergonzani +2
Humanoid robots have great potential for a wide range of applications, including industrial and domestic use, healthcare, and search and rescue missions. However, bipedal locomotio…
Quadrupeds for Planetary Exploration: Field Testing Control Algorithms on an Active Volcano
Shubham Vyas, Franek Stark, Rohit Kumar +6
Missions such as the Ingenuity helicopter have shown the advantages of using novel locomotion modes to increase the scientific return of planetary exploration missions. Legged robo…
An adaptive hierarchical control framework for quadrupedal robots in planetary exploration
Franek Stark, Rohit Kumar, Shubham Vyas +6
Planetary exploration missions require robots capable of navigating extreme and unknown environments. While wheeled rovers have dominated past missions, their mobility is limited t…
Parallel Transmission Aware Co-Design: Enhancing Manipulator Performance Through Actuation-Space Optimization
Rohit Kumar, Melya Boukheddimi, Dennis Mronga +2
In robotics, structural design and behavior optimization have long been considered separate processes, resulting in the development of systems with limited capabilities. Recently,…