Quadratic Programming-Based Posture Manipulation and Thrust-vectoring for Agile Dynamic Walking on Narrow Pathways
There has been significant advancement in legged robot's agility where they can show impressive acrobatic maneuvers, such as parkour. These maneuvers rely heavily on posture manipulation. To expand the stability and locomotion plasticity, we use the multi-modal ability in our legged-aerial platform, the Husky Beta, to perform thruster-assisted walking. This robot has thrusters on each of its sagittal knee joints which can be used to stabilize its frontal dynamic as it walks. In this work, we perform a simulation study of quadruped narrow-path walking with Husky $β$, where the robot will utilize its thrusters to stably walk on a narrow path. The controller is designed based on a centroidal dynamics model with thruster and foot ground contact forces as inputs. These inputs are regulated using a QP solver to be used in a model predictive control framework. In addition to narrow-path walking, we also perform a lateral push-recovery simulation to study how the thrusters can be used to stabilize the frontal dynamics.
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