Immersive Operation System for Hexapod Robot with Follow-the-Contact-Point Gait Control

Author(s):  
Yuya Murai ◽  
Shinkichi Inagaki ◽  
Tatsuya Suzuki
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 931-937
Author(s):  
Tianbo Qiao

This paper attempts to improve the terrain adaptability of hexapod robot through gait control. Firstly, the multi-leg coupling in the tripodal gait of the hexapod robot was modeled by Hopf oscillator. Then, annular central pattern generator (CPG) was adopted to simulate the leg movements of hexapod robot between signals. Furthermore, a physical prototype was designed for the gait control test on field-programmable gate array (FPGA), and the algorithm of the rhythmic output of the model was programmed in Verilog, a hardware description language. Finally, the effectiveness of our gait control method was verified through the simulation on Xilinx. The results show that the phase difference of the CPG network remained stable; the designed hexapod robot moved at about 5.15cm/s stably in a tripodal gait, and outperformed wheeled and tracked robots in terrain adaptation. The research findings lay a solid basis for the design of all-terrain multi-leg robots.


Author(s):  
Fenghui Xu ◽  
Yongxing Jia ◽  
Zhidong Jia ◽  
Hao Chen ◽  
Xueshuai Guan ◽  
...  

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document