公开(公告)号：US12115673B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-15

申请号：US18052535

申请日：2022-11-03

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD.

Inventor： Yizhang Líu ,  Youjun Xiong ,  Xianwen Zeng ,  Zhihao Zhang ,  Meihui Zhang ,  Chunyu Chen

IPC: G06F17/00 ,  B25J9/16

CPC classification number: B25J9/1666 ,  B25J9/163

Abstract: A robot obstacle avoidance method, a robot controller using the same, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining an influence value of an obstacle on a motion range of a joint of the robot according to a position of the obstacle in a workspace of the robot; establishing a state transition relationship of the robot by taking a joint velocity of the robot as a control target and a joint angular velocity of the robot as a control input quantity; and avoiding the robot from colliding with the obstacle during a movement process of the robot by performing a model predictive control on the robot according to the state transition relationship and the influence value. In the present disclosure, the influence of the obstacle on the motion range of the joint of the robot is fully considered.

公开(公告)号：US11992946B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-28

申请号：US17553758

申请日：2021-12-16

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： Yizhang Liu ,  Youjun Xiong ,  Xuan Luo ,  Xianwen Zeng ,  Ligang Ge ,  Chunyu Chen

IPC: B25J9/16

CPC classification number: B25J9/1651 ,  B25J9/1607

Abstract: A joint acceleration planning method, a redundant robot using the same, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining an optimization objective function, a joint acceleration inequation constraint function and a joint acceleration equation constraint function corresponding to the optimization target from a quadratic programming function library, where the optimization objective function is an objective function obtained based on the upper and lower limits of the optimization target and a Euclidean distance algorithm; and obtaining a joint acceleration planning result by performing a quadratic optimization solving on a joint acceleration of each of the target joints of the robot at time k according to the end Cartesian space speed at time k+1, the joint parameter set of the target joints of the robot at time k, the sampling period, the optimization objective function, the joint acceleration inequation constraint function, and the joint acceleration equation constraint function.

公开(公告)号：US11878426B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-23

申请号：US17314039

申请日：2021-05-06

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： Xingxing Ma ,  Chunyu Chen ,  Ligang Ge ,  Hongge Wang ,  Mingqiang Huang ,  Jiangchen Zhou ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Zheng Xie ,  Youjun Xiong

IPC: B25J9/16

CPC classification number: B25J9/1666 ,  B25J9/162 ,  B25J9/1653

Abstract: A biped robot gait control method as well as a robot and a computer readable storage medium are provided. During the movement, the system obtains a current supporting pose of a current supporting leg of the biped robot, and calculates a relative pose between the supporting legs based on the current supporting pose and a preset ideal supporting pose of a next step. The system further calculates modified gait parameters of the next step based on the relative pose between the two supporting legs and a joint distance between left and right ankle joints in an initial state of the biped robot when standing. Finally, the system controls the next supporting leg to move according to the modified gait parameters.

公开(公告)号：US20230064815A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-02

申请号：US17732568

申请日：2022-04-29

Applicant: UBTech Robotics Corp Ltd

Inventor： Qiuyue Luo ,  Ligang Ge ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Chunyu Chen ,  Jie Bai

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B62D57/032 ,  B25J13/08

Abstract: A method for controlling gait of a biped robot includes: collecting a lateral center of mass (CoM) speed and a lateral CoM position of the biped robot when the biped robot walks in place, calculating phase variables of virtual constraints corresponding to the CoM of the biped robot in a first phase and a second phase according to the lateral CoM speed and the lateral CoM position; constructing motion trajectory calculation equations for the biped robot based on the phase variables corresponding to the first phase and the second phase, respectively; and finding inverse solutions for joints of the biped robot using the motion trajectory calculation equations to obtain joint angles corresponding to each of the joints of the biped robot to realize gait control.

公开(公告)号：US11565762B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-31

申请号：US16724413

申请日：2019-12-23

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： Chunyu Chen ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Ligang Ge ,  Xianwei Su ,  Zheng Xie ,  Youjun Xiong ,  Jianxin Pang

IPC: B62D57/02 ,  G01L5/16

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a zero moment point jitter processing method as well as an apparatus and a robot using the same. The method includes: obtaining left foot force information and right foot force information collected by sensors; calculating a first zero moment point and a second zero moment point of soles of two feet of a robot based on the left foot force information and the right foot force information; calculating a third zero moment point of the robot according to the first zero moment point and the second zero moment point; calculating a jitter amplitude of the third zero moment point within a preset period; and adjusting a position of the third zero moment point in response to the jitter amplitude being not larger than a predetermined jitter amplitude threshold. In this manner, the robot can eliminate zero moment point jitters within a certain amplitude.

公开(公告)号：US20220388169A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-08

申请号：US17726548

申请日：2022-04-22

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： Jie Bai ,  Ligang Ge ,  Chunyu Chen ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Youjun Xiong

IPC: B25J9/16

Abstract: A method for generating a center of mass (CoM) trajectory includes determining an actual pose of a center of mass (CoM), a pose of a left foot, and a pose of a right pose of a robot; determining a first pose tracking vector of the robot according to the actual pose of the CoM and the pose of the left foot, and determining a second pose tracking vector of the robot according to the actual pose of the CoM and the pose of the right foot; and controlling a desired pose of the CoM of the robot to alternately track the pose of the left foot and the pose of the right foot, according to the first pose tracking vector and the second pose tracking vector, so as to generate a desired CoM trajectory of the robot.

公开(公告)号：US20220355479A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-10

申请号：US17678030

申请日：2022-02-23

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： Jie Bai ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Ligang Ge ,  Chunyu Chen ,  Qiuyue Luo ,  Youjun Xiong

IPC: B25J9/16

Abstract: A gait planning method and a robot using the same as well as a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining a reference leg length l0 and a leg length variation range A of a robot; performing a trajectory planning on a length of at least one of the legs of the robot using; an equation including the reference leg length, the leg length variation range, and a preset recurrent excitation function of a time variable t. In this manner, the trajectory planning for the leg length of the robot during motion is performed according to the characteristics of motion scene such as robot jumping or running so that the change of the leg length of the robot is adapted to the motion process, which greatly improves the stability of the robot in the motion scene such as jumping or running.

公开(公告)号：US11061407B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-13

申请号：US16231512

申请日：2018-12-23

Applicant: UBTECH Robotics Corp

Inventor： Youjun Xiong ,  Zheng Xie ,  Chunyu Chen ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Ligang Ge

IPC: G05D1/02

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an equivalent trajectory generating method for a biped robot and a biped robot using the same. The method includes: obtaining a motion state of the biped robot by a position sensor; determining switching moments in an advancing direction of the biped robot, based on the motion state of the biped robot; finding the mass center position of the biped robot at each switching moment; connecting the mass center positions at the switching moments as an equivalent trajectory of the biped robot; and performing a closed loop control on the biped robot according to the equivalent trajectory. Through the method, the overall real-time position of the robot can be obtained according to the equivalent trajectory effectively, which is advantageous to perform a stable and reliable control to the biped robot according to the equivalent trajectory of the biped robot.

公开(公告)号：US20210178588A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-17

申请号：US17120229

申请日：2020-12-13

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： Chunyu Chen ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Ligang Ge ,  Zheng Xie ,  Jianxin Pang ,  Youjun Xiong

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B25J13/08

Abstract: A robot control method includes: obtaining force information associated with feet of the robot; calculating a zero moment point of a COM of a body of the robot based on the force information; updating a position trajectory of the robot according to the zero moment point of the COM of the body to obtain an updated position of the COM of the body; obtaining posture information of the robot; updating a posture trajectory of the robot according to the posture information to obtain an updated pose angle; performing inverse kinematics analysis on the updated position of the COM of the body and the updated pose angle to obtain joint angles of legs of the robot; and controlling the robot to move according to the joint angles.

公开(公告)号：US11022983B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-01

申请号：US16172838

申请日：2018-10-28

Applicant: UBTECH Robotics Corp

Inventor： Youjun Xiong ,  Ligang Ge ,  Chunyu Chen ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Zheng Xie ,  Zhaohui An ,  Jinghua Tang

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  B25J9/10 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B25J17/00 ,  B62D57/032 ,  G05D1/08 ,  B25J13/08

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to robot technology, which provides a gait control method, device, and terminal device for a biped robot. The method includes: planning an initial position of an ankle joint of the biped robot and a rotation angle of a sole of the biped robot to rotate around one of a toe and a heel of the biped robot; planning a body pose of the biped robot; calculating a target position of the ankle joint based on the initial position of the ankle joint and the rotation angle of the sole; obtaining a joint angle of each of a plurality of joints of the biped robot by performing an operation on the body pose and the target position of the ankle joint utilizing an inverse kinematics algorithm; and adjusting a gait of the biped robot based on the joint angle of each of the joints.