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7 May 2010 Optimal powering schemes for legged robotics
Paul Muench, David Bednarz, Gregory P. Czerniak, Ka C Cheok
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Abstract
Legged Robots have tremendous mobility, but they can also be very inefficient. These inefficiencies can be due to suboptimal control schemes, among other things. If your goal is to get from point A to point B in the least amount of time, your control scheme will be different from if your goal is to get there using the least amount of energy. In this paper, we seek a balance between these extremes by looking at both efficiency and speed. We model a walking robot as a rimless wheel, and, using Pontryagin's Maximum Principle (PMP), we find an "on-off" control for the model, and describe the switching curve between these control extremes.
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Paul Muench, David Bednarz, Gregory P. Czerniak, and Ka C Cheok "Optimal powering schemes for legged robotics", Proc. SPIE 7692, Unmanned Systems Technology XII, 769214 (7 May 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.851156
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KEYWORDS
Switching

Switches

Robotics

Robots

Systems modeling

Calculus

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