Speed-adapted Trajectories in the Case of Insufficient Hydraulic Pressure for the Four-legged Large-scale Walking Vehicle Alduro

When operating walking machines, only a coordinated movement of all cylinders and/or motors can lead to safe, stable walking. The large hydraulically driven walking machine ALDURO, which is investigated in this paper, has no external power supply, and therefore the size of the on-board hydraulic power pack and its diesel engine is limited by its weight. When moving several cylinders with high speed, the hydraulic supply can become insufficient and the resulting trajectories of feet and platform can become unpredictable. When the ALDURO is near its stability limit such behaviour can lead to instability and toppling of the system. The proposed solution under discussion here is to observe the position errors and time derivatives for the cylinders and based on this reduce the speed when necessary.