Position and force control of a walking hexapod

Silva, Manuel; Tenreiro Machado, J. A.

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Silva, Manuel

Tenreiro Machado, J. A.

Abstract(s)

This paper compares the performance of classical position PD algorithm with a cascade controller involving position and force feedback loops, for multi-legged locomotion systems and variable ground characteristics. For that objective the robot precribed motion is characterized in terms of several locomotion variables. Moreover, we formulate several performance measures of the walking robot based on the robot and terrain dynamical properties and on the robot hip and foot trajectory errors. Several experiments reveal the performance of the different control architectures in the proposed indices.