On-Site Locomotion Planning for a Humanoid Robot with Stable Whole-Body Collision Avoidance Motion Guided by Footsteps and Centroidal Trajectory

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a locomotion planning framework for a humanoid robot with stable whole-body collision avoidance motion, which enables the robot to traverse an unknown narrow space on the spot based on environmental measurements. The key idea of the proposed method is to reduce a large computational cost for the whole-body locomotion planning by utilizing global footstep planning results and its centroidal trajectory as a guide. In the global footstep planning phase, we modify the bounding box of the robot approximating the centroidal sway amplitude of the candidate footsteps. This enables the planner to obtain appropriate footsteps and transition time for next whole-body motion planning. Then, we execute sequential whole-body motion planning by prioritized inverse kinematics considering collision avoidance and maintaining its ZMP trajectory, which enables the robot to plan stable motion for each step in 223[Formula: see text]ms at worst. We evaluated the proposed framework by a humanoid robot HRP-5P in the dynamic simulation and the real world. The major contribution of our paper is solving the problem of increasing computational cost for whole-body motion planning and enabling a humanoid robot to execute adaptive on-site locomotion planning in an unknown narrow space.