公开(公告)号：US20220194500A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-23

申请号：US17562985

申请日：2021-12-27

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

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

IPC: B62D57/032 ,  B25J9/16

Abstract: A stepping down trajectory planning method as well as a robot using the same and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: dividing a stepping down process of the robot into a plurality of planned stages; adjusting a start position of a swing leg of the robot according to an ankle-to-heel distance, where the ankle-to-heel distance is a horizontal distance between an ankle joint of the swing leg of the robot and a heel of the swing leg of the robot; determining an initial state and an end state of the swing leg in each of the planned stages according to the start position; and obtaining a planned trajectory of the swing leg by performing a curve fitting on the swing leg in each of the planned stages the initial state and the end state.

公开(公告)号：US20220193896A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-23

申请号：US17557076

申请日：2021-12-21

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

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

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B62D57/02 ,  G05B19/4155

Abstract: A robot balance control method as well as a robot using the same and a computer readable storage medium are provided. In the method, a brand new flywheel model different from the existing flywheel model is created. In this flywheel model, the foot of the support leg of the robot is equivalent to the massless link of the flywheel model, while rest parts of the robot are equivalent to the flywheel of the flywheel model. Compared with the various models in the prior art, this flywheel model is more in line with the actual situation of the robot during the monoped supporting period. By controlling the posture of the foot of the support leg based on this flywheel model, a better balance effect can be achieved, which avoids the overturning of the robot.

公开(公告)号：US20220152827A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-19

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

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：US20210197370A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-01

申请号：US17133575

申请日：2020-12-23

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

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

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  G05D1/02 ,  B62D57/032

Abstract: A robot control method includes: acquiring distances between a center of mass (COM) of the biped robot and each of preset key points of feet of the biped robot, and acquiring an initial position of the COM of the biped robot; calculating a position offset of the COM based on the distances; adjusting the initial position of the COM based on the position offset of the COM to obtain a desired position of the COM of the biped robot; and determining desired walking parameters of the biped robot based on the desired position of the COM by using a preset inverse kinematics algorithm, wherein the desired walking parameters are configured to control the biped robot to walk.

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：US20240399567A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-05

申请号：US18424323

申请日：2024-01-26

Applicant: Ubtech Robotics Corp Ltd

Inventor： BO TAO ,  Chunyu Chen

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B60L15/20 ,  B62D57/028

Abstract: A robot control method includes: building a two-wheeled inverted pendulum model based on a wheel-legged robot; constructing initial state-space equations based on the two-wheeled inverted pendulum model; linearizing the initial state-space equations to obtain the state-space equations for a linear time-invariant system; obtaining a quadratic performance objective function according to the state-space equations for the linear time-invariant system; and solving the quadratic performance objective function by a linear quadratic regulator to obtain wheel torques of the wheel-legged robot, and controlling the wheel-legged robot according to the wheel torques.

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.

公开(公告)号：US20240217108A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-04

申请号：US18395610

申请日：2023-12-24

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

Inventor： XUAN LUO ,  Chunyu Chen

IPC: B25J9/16

CPC classification number: B25J9/1692 ,  B25J9/1664

Abstract: A method for avoiding singularities of a robotic arm includes: calculating a virtual environment external force required by the robotic arm to avoid singularities based on current joint positions of joints on the robotic arm when it is determined that the robotic arm needs to avoid singularities; obtaining a current end force of the robotic arm and a desired end trajectory of the robotic arm; performing admittance control calculation based on the virtual environment external force, the current end force and the desired end trajectory to obtain a corrected end trajectory of the robotic arm; and controlling the robotic arm to move based on the corrected end trajectory.

公开(公告)号：US12005584B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-11

申请号：US17488341

申请日：2021-09-29

Applicant: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD

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

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B25J13/08

CPC classification number: B25J9/1653 ,  B25J9/1607 ,  B25J9/1664 ,  B25J13/088

Abstract: A pose control method for a robot includes: estimating a first set of joint angular velocities of all joints of the robot according to a balance control algorithm; estimating a second set of joint angular velocities of all joints of the robot according to a momentum planning algorithm; estimating a third set of joint angular velocities of all joints of the robot according to a pose return-to-zero algorithm; and performing pose control on the robot according to the first set of joint angular velocities, the second set of joint angular velocities, and the third set of joint angular velocities.

公开(公告)号：US11983012B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-14

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: G05D1/00 ,  B62D57/032

CPC classification number: G05D1/0214 ,  G05D1/0231 ,  B62D57/032

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.