Learning-Based Propulsion Control for Amphibious Quadruped Robots With Dynamic Adaptation to Changing Environment
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2023-12-01
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en
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8
7889-7896
7889-7896
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 8, issue 12
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This letter proposes a learning-based adaptive propulsion control (APC) method for a quadruped robot integrated with thrusters in amphibious environments, allowing it to move efficiently in water while maintaining its ground locomotion capabilities. We designed the specific reinforcement learning method to train the neural network to perform the vector propulsion control. Our approach coordinates the legs and propeller, enabling the robot to achieve speed and trajectory tracking tasks in the presence of actuator failures and unknown disturbances. Our simulated validations of the robot in water demonstrate the effectiveness of the trained neural network to predict the disturbances and actuator failures based on historical information, showing that the framework is adaptable to changing environments and is suitable for use in dynamically changing situations. Our proposed approach is suited to the hardware augmentation of quadruped robots to create avenues in the field of amphibious robotics and expand the use of quadruped robots in various applications.Description
Funding Information: This work was supported in part by the Applied Basic Research Program of Liaoning Province under Grant 2022020403-JH2/1013, in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2022YFB4701900, in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61821005, in part by the Open Research Project of the State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, China under Grant ICT2023B50, in part by the Program of China Scholarship Council, and in part by the JIANG Xinsong Innovation Fund under Grant E2510202. Publisher Copyright: © 2016 IEEE.
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amphibious robots, Quadruped robots, reinforcement learning, robot learning
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Yao, Q, Meng, L, Zhang, Q, Zhao, J, Pajarinen, J, Wang, X, Li, Z & Wang, C 2023, ' Learning-Based Propulsion Control for Amphibious Quadruped Robots With Dynamic Adaptation to Changing Environment ', IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 7889-7896 . https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2023.3323893