公开(公告)号：US20230202027A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-29

申请号：US18090457

申请日：2022-12-28

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： CHUNYU CHEN ,  Jie Bai ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Ligang Ge ,  Zheng Xie ,  Youjun Xiong

IPC: B25J9/16

CPC classification number: B25J9/1602 ,  B62D57/032

Abstract: A walking control method for a biped robot includes: detecting whether the biped robot is in an unbalanced state; in response to detection that the biped robot is in the unbalanced state, obtaining a predicted balance step length corresponding to the biped robot in the unbalanced state; performing a smooth transition processing on the predicted balance step length according to a current movement step length of the biped robot to obtain a desired balance step length corresponding to the predicted balance step length; determining a planned leg trajectory of the biped robot according to the desired balance step length; and controlling a current swing leg of the biped robot to move according to the planned leg trajectory.

公开(公告)号：US11602848B2

公开(公告)日：2023-03-14

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：US11550335B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-10

申请号：US16753408

申请日：2018-11-28

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP.

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

IPC: B62D57/032 ,  G05D1/02

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a biped robot and its moving method and apparatus. The method includes: calculating a motion state of each servo of legs of a biped robot according to an actual trajectory of the biped robot, and controlling the servo to rotate to the corresponding motion state. The scheme enables the biped robot to achieve flexible controls to the biped robot according to the received real-time external feedbacks.

公开(公告)号：US20220379480A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-01

申请号：US17678037

申请日：2022-02-23

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

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

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B62D57/032

Abstract: A biped robot control methods and a biped robot using the same as well as a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining an initial distance between a centroid of a double inverted pendulum model of the biped robot and a support point of the biped robot, an initial moving speed of the centroid and an initial displacement of the centroid; calculating a measured value of a stable point of the doable inverted pendulum model based on the initial distance and the initial moving speed; calculating a control output quantity based on the initial moving speed and the measured value of the stable point; calculating a desired displacement of the centroid of the double-inverted pendulum model based on the initial moving speed, the initial displacement, and the control output quantity; and controlling the biped robot to move laterally according to the desired displacement.

公开(公告)号：US20220324106A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-13

申请号：US17702819

申请日：2022-03-24

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： Zhihao Zhang ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Jinliang Chen ,  Youjun Xiong

IPC: B25J9/16

Abstract: A motion control method, a robot controller, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: calculating an inverse Jacobian matrix of a whole-body generalized coordinate vector at a current time relative to an actual task space vector of a humanoid robot; calculating a target generalized coordinate vector corresponding to a to-be-executed task space vector at a current moment by combining an actual task space vector and the to-be-executed task space vector into a null space of the inverse Jacobian matrix according to preset position constraint(s) corresponding to the whole-body generalized coordinate vector; and controlling a motion state of the humanoid robot according to the target generalized coordinate vector. In this manner, the motion of the humanoid robot is optimized as a whole to achieve the purpose of controlling the humanoid robot to avoid the limits of the motion of joints.

公开(公告)号：US20220206501A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-30

申请号：US17462019

申请日：2021-08-31

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： Xingxing Ma ,  Chunyu Chen ,  Yizhang Liu ,  Ligang Ge ,  Hongge Wang ,  Jie Bai ,  Jiangchen Zhou ,  Zheng Xie

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  B25J9/16

Abstract: A dynamic footprint set generation method, a biped robot using die same, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining preset footprint calculation parameters; calculating a landing point position based on the preset footprint calculation parameters; determining a landing point range based on a landing point position, and performing a collision detection on the landing point range; recording the corresponding landing point position in a footprint set in response to the detection result representing there being no collision; obtaining a preset adjustment amplitude to update a preset displacement angle after the recording is completed; and returning to the calculating the landing point position until the footprint set is generated. By continuously adjusting the preset displacement angle, each landing point position is calculated accordingly, and the valid landing point positions are recorded in the footprint set, which provides more feasible landing points for navigation planning.

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.