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Gait synthesis for hexapod robots with a locked joint failure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2005

Jung-Min Yang
Jung-Min Yang
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Catholic University of Daegu, Hayang, Kyongsan, Kyongbuk, 712-702 (Republic of Korea) E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper presents a strategy for generating fault-tolerant gaits of hexapod walking robots. A multi-legged robot is considered to be fault-tolerant with respect to a given failure if it is capable of continuing its walking after the occurrence of a failure, maintaining its static stability. The failure concerned in this paper is a locked joint failure for which a joint in a leg cannot move and is locked in place. The kinematic condition for the existence of fault-tolerant gaits is derived for straight-line walking of a hexapod robot on even terrain. An algorithm for generating fault-tolerant gaits is described and, especially, periodic gaits are presented for forward walking of a hexapod robot with a locked joint failure. The leg sequence and the stride length formula are analytically driven based on gait study and robot kinematics. A case study on post-failure walking of a hexapod robot with the wave gait is shown to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method.

Keywords

Hexapod robotsGait studyLocked joint failureFault-tolerant walking
Type
Research Article
Information
Robotica , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , November 2005 , pp. 701 - 708
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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