SKATER: ローラースケートのスウィズル動作による人型ロボットの移動効率向上
SKATER: Synthesized Kinematics for Advanced Traversing Efficiency on a Humanoid Robot via Roller Skate Swizzles
各足に4つの受動輪を備えた人型ロボットでローラースケートのスウィズル歩容を深層強化学習により獲得し、従来の二足歩行に比べ衝撃強度と移動コストを大幅に削減した。
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著者: Junchi Gu, Feiyang Yuan, Weize Shi, Tianchen Huang, Haopeng Zhang, Xiaohu Zhang, Yu Wang, Wei Gao, Shiwu Zhang
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Although recent years have seen significant progress of humanoid robots in walking and running, the frequent foot strikes with ground during these locomotion gaits inevitably generate high instantaneous impact forces, which leads to exacerbated joint wear and poor energy utilization. Roller skating, as a sport with substantial biomechanical value, can achieve fast and continuous sliding through rational utilization of body inertia, featuring minimal kinetic energy loss. Therefore, this study proposes a novel humanoid robot with each foot equipped with a row of four passive wheels for roller skating. A deep reinforcement learning control framework is also developed for the swizzle gait with the reward function design based on the intrinsic characteristics of roller skating. The learned policy is first analyzed in simulation and then deployed on the physical robot to demonstrate the smoothness and efficiency of the swizzle gait over traditional bipedal walking gait in terms of Impact Intensity and Cost of Transport during locomotion. A reduction of $75.86\%$ and $63.34\%$ of these two metrics indicate roller skating as a superior locomotion mode for enhanced energy efficiency and joint longevity.
