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Published April 2021 | Accepted Version
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SLIP Walking Over Rough Terrain via H-LIP Stepping and Backstepping-Barrier Function Inspired Quadratic Program

Abstract

We present an advanced and novel control method to enable actuated Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum model to walk over rough and challenging terrains. The high-level philosophy is the decoupling of the controls of the vertical and horizontal states. The vertical state is controlled via Backstepping-Barrier Function (BBF) based quadratic programs: a combination of control Lyapunov backstepping and control barrier function, both of which provide inequality constraints on the inputs. The horizontal state is stabilized via Hybrid-Linear Inverted Pendulum (H-LIP) based stepping, which has a closed-form formulation. Therefore, the implementation is computationally-efficient. We evaluate our method in simulation, which demonstrates the aSLIP walking over various terrains, including slopes, stairs, and general rough terrains with uncertainties.

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© 2021 IEEE. Manuscript received October 15, 2020; accepted February 16, 2021. Date of publication February 23, 2021; date of current version March 11, 2021. This letter was recommended for publication by Associate Editor P.-B. Wieber and Editor A. Kheddar upon evaluation of the reviewers' comments. This work was supported by NSF 1924526 and 1923239.

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