Balanced Walking with Capture Steps
Bipedal walking is one of the most essential skills required to play soccer with humanoid robots. Superior walking speed and stability often gives teams the winning edge when their robots are the first at the ball, maintain ball control, and drive the ball towards the opponent goal with sure feet. In this contribution, we present an implementation of our Capture Step Framework on a real soccer robot, and show robust omnidirectional walking. The robot not only manages to locomote on an even surface, but can also cope with various disturbances, such as pushes, collisions, and stepping on the feet of an opponent. The actuation is compliant and the robot walks with stretched knees.
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