Learning 3D Bipedal Walking with Planned Footsteps and Fourier Series Periodic Gait Planning

Reinforcement learning provides a general framework for achieving autonomy and diversity in traditional robot motion control. Robots must walk dynamically to adapt to different ground environments in complex environments. To achieve walking ability similar to that of humans, robots must be able to p...

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Main Authors: Song Wang, Songhao Piao, Xiaokun Leng, Zhicheng He
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-02-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/4/1873
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author Song Wang
Songhao Piao
Xiaokun Leng
Zhicheng He
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description Reinforcement learning provides a general framework for achieving autonomy and diversity in traditional robot motion control. Robots must walk dynamically to adapt to different ground environments in complex environments. To achieve walking ability similar to that of humans, robots must be able to perceive, understand and interact with the surrounding environment. In 3D environments, walking like humans on rugged terrain is a challenging task because it requires complex world model generation, motion planning and control algorithms and their integration. So, the learning of high-dimensional complex motions is still a hot topic in research. This paper proposes a deep reinforcement learning-based footstep tracking method, which tracks the robot’s footstep position by adding periodic and symmetrical information of bipedal walking to the reward function. The robot can achieve robot obstacle avoidance and omnidirectional walking, turning, standing and climbing stairs in complex environments. Experimental results show that reinforcement learning can be combined with real-time robot footstep planning, avoiding the learning of path-planning information in the model training process, so as to avoid the model learning unnecessary knowledge and thereby accelerate the training process.
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spelling doaj.art-28286e19f6d845ec91c4f4afdc227fcf2023-11-16T23:07:16ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-02-01234187310.3390/s23041873Learning 3D Bipedal Walking with Planned Footsteps and Fourier Series Periodic Gait PlanningSong Wang0Songhao Piao1Xiaokun Leng2Zhicheng He3School of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150009, ChinaSchool of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150009, ChinaSchool of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150009, ChinaSchool of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150009, ChinaReinforcement learning provides a general framework for achieving autonomy and diversity in traditional robot motion control. Robots must walk dynamically to adapt to different ground environments in complex environments. To achieve walking ability similar to that of humans, robots must be able to perceive, understand and interact with the surrounding environment. In 3D environments, walking like humans on rugged terrain is a challenging task because it requires complex world model generation, motion planning and control algorithms and their integration. So, the learning of high-dimensional complex motions is still a hot topic in research. This paper proposes a deep reinforcement learning-based footstep tracking method, which tracks the robot’s footstep position by adding periodic and symmetrical information of bipedal walking to the reward function. The robot can achieve robot obstacle avoidance and omnidirectional walking, turning, standing and climbing stairs in complex environments. Experimental results show that reinforcement learning can be combined with real-time robot footstep planning, avoiding the learning of path-planning information in the model training process, so as to avoid the model learning unnecessary knowledge and thereby accelerate the training process.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/4/1873humanoidfootstep planningreinforcement learninggait phase
spellingShingle Song Wang
Songhao Piao
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Zhicheng He
Learning 3D Bipedal Walking with Planned Footsteps and Fourier Series Periodic Gait Planning
Sensors
humanoid
footstep planning
reinforcement learning
gait phase
title Learning 3D Bipedal Walking with Planned Footsteps and Fourier Series Periodic Gait Planning
title_full Learning 3D Bipedal Walking with Planned Footsteps and Fourier Series Periodic Gait Planning
title_fullStr Learning 3D Bipedal Walking with Planned Footsteps and Fourier Series Periodic Gait Planning
title_full_unstemmed Learning 3D Bipedal Walking with Planned Footsteps and Fourier Series Periodic Gait Planning
title_short Learning 3D Bipedal Walking with Planned Footsteps and Fourier Series Periodic Gait Planning
title_sort learning 3d bipedal walking with planned footsteps and fourier series periodic gait planning
topic humanoid
footstep planning
reinforcement learning
gait phase
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/4/1873
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