stability and performance are two main issues in motion of bipeds. to ensure stability of motion, a biped needs to follow specific pattern to comply with a stability criterion such as zero moment point. however, there are infinity many patterns of motion which ensure stability, so one might think of achieving better performance by choosing proper parameters of motion. step length and step perio...

A controller for biped running has to consider varying vertical ground reaction force while satisfying the horizontal ground reaction force and moment limits. We propose a design technique for feedback gains to stabilize the upper body position under varying vertical ground reaction force. We also propose an extended model ZMP control method which uses horizontal and rotational acceleration of ...

In this article, the dynamic stability of a mobile manipulator using ZMP compensation is considered. A unified approach for the two subsystem is formulated using redundant scheme. First, to conserve the dynamic stability of the system, we define the performance index for the redundant system using ZMP(Zero Moment Point). This performance index represents the stability of the whole mobile manipu...

This paper discusses the pushing manipulation of an object by a humanoid robot. For such a pushing task, we show that there are two kinds of ZMPs, i.e., the conventional “Zero Moment Point (ZMP)” considering all sources of the force/moment acting in the foot supporting area, and the “Generalized Zero Moment Point (GZMP)” which is an generalization of ZMP for a humanoid robot whose hands do not ...

Soccer Humanoid robots must be able to fulfill their tasks in a highly dynamic soccer field, which requires highly responsive and dynamic locomotion. It is very difficult to keep humanoids balance during walking. The position of the Zero Moment Point (ZMP) is widely used for dynamic stability measurement in biped locomotion. In this paper, we present an omnidirectional walk engine, which mainly...

This paper describes an online method generating walking patterns for biped humanoid robots having a trunk. Depending on the walking command, the motion patterns of the lower-limbs are created and connected to the prewalking patterns smoothly in online. For the stability of the biped robots, the trunk and the waist motion is generated by a walking stabilization control that is based on the ZMP ...

This article is aimed at describing a technique to compensate undesired yaw moment, which is inevitably induced about the support foot during single support phases while a bipedal robot is in motion. The main strategy in this method is to rotate the upper body in a way to exert a secondary moment that counteracts to the factors which create the undesired moment. In order to compute the yaw mome...