Sushrutha Raghavan, V;
Kanoulas, D;
G. Caldwell, D;
G. Tsagarakis, N;
(2021)
Reconfigurable and Agile Legged-Wheeled Robot Navigation in Cluttered Environments with Movable Obstacles.
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10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3139438.
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Abstract
Legged and wheeled locomotion are two standard methods used by robots to perform navigation. Combining them to create a hybrid legged-wheeled locomotion results in increased speed, agility, and reconfigurability for the robot, allowing it to traverse a multitude of environments. The CENTAURO robot has these advantages, but they are accompanied by a higher-dimensional search space for formulating autonomous economical motion plans, especially in cluttered environments. In this article, we first review our previously presented legged-wheeled footprint reconfiguring global planner. We describe the two incremental prototypes, where the primary goal of the algorithms is to reduce the search space of possible footprints such that plans that expand the robot over the low-lying wide obstacles or narrow into passages can be computed with speed and efficiency. The planner also considers the cost of avoiding obstacles versus negotiating them by expanding over them. The second part of this article presents our new work on local obstacle pushing, which further increases the number of tight scenarios the planner can solve. The goal of the new local push-planner is to place any movable obstacle of unknown mass and inertial properties, obstructing the previously planned trajectory from our global planner, to a location devoid of obstruction. This is done while minimising the distance traveled by the robot, the distance the object is pushed, and its rotation caused by the push. Together, the local and global planners form a major part of the agile reconfigurable navigation suite for the legged-wheeled hybrid CENTAURO robot.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Reconfigurable and Agile Legged-Wheeled Robot Navigation in Cluttered Environments with Movable Obstacles |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3139438 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3139438 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License. |
| Keywords: | Hybrid legged-wheeled navigation, Legged-wheeled robotics, Navigation among movable objects, Path planning, quadrupedal robot, Reconfigurable Navigation Planning |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10141360 |
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