公开(公告)号：US20220184807A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-16

申请号：US17137431

申请日：2020-12-30

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

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

IPC: B25J9/16

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a humanoid gait control method, device, apparatus and storage medium of humanoid robots. The method includes: obtaining a first vector from a virtual centroid to an ankle joint of a left leg of the humanoid robot at a current moment and a second vector from the virtual centroid to an ankle joint of a right leg at the current moment, and obtaining an original planning value of the virtual centroid of the current moment of the humanoid robot; determining a height of the target virtual centroid of the humanoid robot after the virtual centroid is reduced at the current moment according to the first vector, the second vector, the original planning value of the virtual centroid and a preset virtual centroid height reduction algorithm; and controlling the humanoid robot to walk on straight knees according to the height of the target virtual centroid.

公开(公告)号：US11331806B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-17

申请号：US16843921

申请日：2020-04-09

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： Zecai Lin ,  Miaochen Guo ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Youjun Xiong ,  Jianxin Pang

IPC: G05B19/42 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B25J9/04 ,  B25J9/06 ,  B25J9/00 ,  B25J17/02 ,  B25J13/08 ,  B25J19/04 ,  B25J9/12

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a robot control method as well as an apparatus, and a robot using the same. The method includes: obtaining a human pose image; obtaining pixel information of key points in the human pose image; obtaining three-dimensional positional information of key points of a human arm according to the pixel information of the preset key points; obtaining a robotic arm kinematics model of a robot; obtaining an angle of each joint in the robotic arm kinematics model according to the three-dimensional positional information of the key points of the human arm and the robotic arm kinematics model; and controlling an arm of the robot to perform a corresponding action according to the angle of each joint. The control method does not require a three-dimensional stereo camera to collect three-dimensional coordinates of a human body, which reduces the cost to a certain extent.

公开(公告)号：US20210197379A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-01

申请号：US17115712

申请日：2020-12-08

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： Dake Zheng ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Zheng Xie ,  Jianxin Pang ,  Youjun Xiong

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  G05B19/4155

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for controlling an arm of a robot, including obtaining obstacle information relating to the arm of the robot by at least one sensor, obtaining current posture information of the arm of the robot by a least one detector and obtaining an expected posture information of an end-portion of the arm of the robot, determining an expected trajectory of the end-portion of the arm of the robot, determining an expected speed of the end-portion of the arm of the robot in accordance with the expected trajectory of the end-portion, determining a virtual speed of a target point on the arm of the robot, and configuring a target join speed corresponding to a joint of the arm of the robot. Such that the redundant arm of the robot may be configured to prevent from contacting the obstacles in the complex environment while performing corresponding tasks.

公开(公告)号：US20210181748A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-17

申请号：US17120232

申请日：2020-12-13

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

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

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  G01L5/16 ,  B62D57/02 ,  G05B19/4155

Abstract: A robot balance control method includes: obtaining force information associated with a left foot and a right foot of the robot; calculating a zero moment point of a center of mass (COM) of a body of the robot based on the force information; calculating a first position offset and a second position offset of the robot according to the zero moment point of the COM of the body; updating a position trajectory of the robot according to the first position offset and the second offset to obtain an updated position of the COM of the body; performing inverse kinematics analysis on the updated position of the COM of the body to obtain joint angles of the left leg and the right leg of the robot; and controlling the robot to move according to the joint angles.

公开(公告)号：US20210146538A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-20

申请号：US16734393

申请日：2020-01-05

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： Zecai Lin ,  Zhaohui An ,  Zheng Xie ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Youjun Xiong ,  Jianxin Pang

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B25J13/08

Abstract: A method for controlling an arm of a robot to imitate a human arm, includes: acquiring first pose information of key points of a human arm to be imitated; converting the first pose information into second pose information of key points of an arm of a robot; determining an angle value of each joint of the arm according to inverse kinematics of the arm based on the second pose information; and controlling the arm to move according to the angle values.

公开(公告)号：US20210107577A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-15

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：US20200206898A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-02

申请号：US16572637

申请日：2019-09-17

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： YOUJUN XIONG ,  Ligang Ge ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Chunyu Chen ,  Zheng Xie ,  Jianxin Pang

IPC: B25J9/00 ,  B25J13/08 ,  B25J9/16

Abstract: There are a biped robot gait control method and a biped robot, where the method includes: obtaining six-dimensional force information, and determining a motion state of two legs of the biped robot; calculating a ZMP position of each of two legs of the biped robot; determining a ZMP expected value of each of the two legs in real time; obtaining a compensation angle of an ankle joint of each of the two legs of the biped robot by inputting the ZMP position, a change rate of the ZMP position, the ZMP expected value, and a change rate of the ZMP expected value to an ankle joint smoothing controller so as to perform a close-loop ZMP tracking control on each of the two legs; adjusting a current angle of the ankle joint of each of the two legs of the biped robot in real time; and repeating the forgoing steps.

公开(公告)号：US12226903B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-18

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 ,  B25J13/08 ,  B62D57/032

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：US12172325B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-24

申请号：US18075426

申请日：2022-12-06

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： Meihui Zhang ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Youjun Xiong ,  Huan Tan

IPC: B25J9/00 ,  B25J9/16

Abstract: A collision detection method, a storage medium, and a robot are provided. The method includes: calculating an external torque of a first joint of the robot based on a preset generalized momentum-based disturbance observer; calculating an external torque of a second joint of the robot based on a preset long short-term memory network; calculating an external torque of a third joint of the robot based on the external torque of the first joint and the external torque of the second joint; and determining whether the robot has collided with an external environment or not based on the external torque of the third joint and a preset collision threshold. In the present disclosure, the component of the model error in the joint external torque calculated by the disturbance observer is eliminated to obtain the accurate contact torque, thereby improving the accuracy of the collision detection.

公开(公告)号：US12076860B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-03

申请号：US17561609

申请日：2021-12-23

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

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

IPC: B62D57/032 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B62D57/024

CPC classification number: B25J9/1602 ,  B25J9/1633

Abstract: A control method for a robot includes: determining a desired zero moment point (ZMP) of the robot; obtaining a position of a left foot and a position of a right foot of the robot, and calculating desired support forces of the left foot and the right foot according to the desired ZMP, the positions of the left foot and the right foot; obtaining measured support forces of the left foot and the right foot, and calculating an amount of change in length of the left leg and an amount of change in length of the right leg according to the desired support forces of the left foot and the right foot, the measured support forces of the left foot and the right foot; and controlling the robot to walk according to the amount of change in length of the left leg and the right leg.