On the Derivation of the Contact Dynamics in Arbitrary Frames: Application to Polishing with Talos

Sebastien Kleff, Justin Carpentier, Nicolas Mansard, Ludovic Righetti

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Abstract

Contact dynamics relies on the simultaneous satisfaction of constraints at the robot body level and at the contact level. At both levels, various formulations can be chosen that all must lead to the same results, given the same hypothesis, hence the little importance of their details. Yet when using it in an optimal control problem, a particular formulation is often imposed by the task to be performed by the robot. In this paper, we detail the formulation of the contact quantities (force, movement) in an arbitrary frame imposed by the task. In that case, we will show that we are typically not interested in working in the local frame (attached to the robot contact point), nor in the world frame, but in a user-defined frame centered at the contact location with a fixed orientation in the world. The derivations can then be used for 6D, 3D or normal (pure-sliding) contact. We implemented the corresponding derivatives on top of the contact dynamics of the rigid-body dynamics library Pinocchio in the optimal control solver Crocoddyl. We show that a unique formulation is able to handle several operational orientations, by achieving several surfacing tasks in model predictive control with the robot Talos.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2022
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages512-517
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9798350309799
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2022 - Ginowan, Japan
Duration: Nov 28 2022Nov 30 2022

Publication series

NameIEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Volume2022-November
ISSN (Print)2164-0572
ISSN (Electronic)2164-0580

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2022
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityGinowan
Period11/28/2211/30/22

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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