Design and Control of a Small Humanoid Equipped With Flight Unit and Wheels for Multimodal Locomotion

  • Kazuki Sugihara
    Department of Mechano-Infomatics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Moju Zhao
    Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Takuzumi Nishio
    Department of Mechano-Infomatics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Tasuku Makabe
    Department of Mechano-Infomatics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Kei Okada
    Department of Mechano-Infomatics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Masayuki Inaba
    Department of Mechano-Infomatics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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公開日
2023-09
資源種別
journal article
権利情報
  • https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplorehelp/downloads/license-information/IEEE.html
  • https://doi.org/10.15223/policy-029
  • https://doi.org/10.15223/policy-037
DOI
  • 10.1109/lra.2023.3297065
  • 10.48550/arxiv.2303.14718
公開者
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

説明

Humanoids are versatile robotic platforms owing to their limbs with multiple degrees of freedom. Although humanoids can walk like humans, they are relatively slow, and cannot run over large barriers. To address these limitations, we aim to achieve rapid terrestrial locomotion ability and simultaneously expand the locomotion domain to the air by utilizing thrust for propulsion. In this paper, we first describe an optimized construction method for a humanoid robot equipped with wheels and a flight unit to achieve these abilities. Then, we describe the integrated control framework of the proposed flying humanoid for each locomotion mode: aerial, legged, and wheeled locomotion. Finally, we achieved multimodal locomotion and aerial manipulation experiments using the proposed robot platform. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that a single humanoid has simultaneously achieved three different types of locomotion, including flight.

8 pages, 17 figures. Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

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