Marion, Pat, Fallon, Maurice, Deits, Robin, Whelan, Thomas, Antone, Matthew, McDonald, John and Tedrake, Russ (2015) Continuous Humanoid Locomotion over Uneven Terrain using Stereo Fusion. In: IEEE-RAS, 15th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2015. IEEE. ISBN 9781479968848
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Abstract
Humanoid robots have the potential to traverse the same com-
plex  terrain  as  humans:   dealing  with  all  the  challenges  of
uneven  and  discontinuous  surfaces,  cracks  and  gaps  while
moving at typical human speeds.  While locomotion research
spans actuator development,  dynamic planning and control,
in this work we focus on terrain estimation and footstep plan-
ning — in particular while in continuous motion.
We demonstrate that a precisely accurate dense terrain map
can be estimated using only imagery from a humanoid robot’s
passive stereo camera
. This result then provides the necessary
sensory input for an on-demand footstep planner which can
in turn compute a set of footsteps which are optimal (within
our assumptions) and kinematically feasible; yet does so suffi-
ciently quickly that the robot can continuously locomote over
uneven terrain.
Our  experiments  demonstrate  the  Boston  Dynamics  Atlas
robot  continuously  walking  over  a  terrain  course  similar  to
the DARPA Robotic Challenge (DRC) walking task. Our aim
with  this  work  is  to  demonstrate  how  modern  dense  visual
mapping techniques can be used by dynamic robots while in
motion.
  
  | Item Type: | Book Section | 
|---|---|
| Keywords: | stereo image processing; humanoid robots; image fusion; integer programming; legged locomotion; path planning; quadratic programming; robot vision; | 
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science | 
| Item ID: | 8308 | 
| Identification Number: | 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2015.7363465 | 
| Depositing User: | John McDonald | 
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jun 2017 14:57 | 
| Publisher: | IEEE | 
| Refereed: | Yes | 
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| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here | 
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