• DOI:10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981579
• Corpus ID: 250264394

Simultaneous Contact-Rich Grasping and Locomotion via Distributed Optimization Enabling Free-Climbing for Multi-Limbed Robots

@article{Shirai2022SimultaneousCG,
  title={Simultaneous Contact-Rich Grasping and Locomotion via Distributed Optimization Enabling Free-Climbing for Multi-Limbed Robots},
  author={Yuki Shirai and Xuan Lin and Alexander Schperberg and Yusuke Tanaka and Hayato Kato and Varit Vichathorn and Dennis Hong},
  journal={2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year={2022},
  pages={13563-13570}
}

• Y. Shirai, Xuan Lin, +4 authors Dennis Hong
• Published 4 July 2022
• Computer Science, Engineering
• 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

While motion planning of locomotion for legged robots has shown great success, motion planning for legged robots with dexterous multi-finger grasping is not mature yet. We present an efficient motion planning framework for simultaneously solving locomotion (e.g., centroidal dynamics), grasping (e.g., patch contact), and contact (e.g., gait) problems. To accelerate the planning process, we propose distributed optimization frameworks based on Alternating Direction Methods of Multipliers (ADMM) to solve the original large-scale Mixed-Integer NonLinear Programming (MINLP). The resulting frameworks use Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP) to solve contact and NonLinear Programming (NLP) to solve nonlinear dynamics, which are more computationally tractable and less sensitive to parameters. Also, we explicitly enforce patch contact constraints from limit surfaces with micro-spine grippers. We demonstrate our proposed framework in the hardware experiments, showing that the multi-limbed robot is able to realize various motions including free-climbing at a slope angle 45° with a much shorter planning time.