Efficient computation of whole-body control utilizing simplified whole-body dynamics via centroidal dynamics
Ahn, Junewhee Jung, Jaesug Lee, Yisoo Lee, Hokyun Haddadin, Sami Park, Jaeheung
Ahn, Junewhee
Jung, Jaesug
Lee, Yisoo
Lee, Hokyun
Haddadin, Sami
Park, Jaeheung
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Robotics
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2025
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In this study, we present a novel method for enhancing the computational efficiency of whole-body control for humanoid robots, a challenge accentuated by their high degrees of freedom. The reduced-dimension rigid body dynamics of a floating base robot is constructed by segmenting its kinematic chain into constrained and unconstrained chains, simplifying the dynamics of the unconstrained chain through the centroidal dynamics. The proposed dynamics model can be applied to whole-body control methods, allowing the problem to be divided into two parts for more efficient computation. The efficiency of the framework is demonstrated by comparative experiments in simulations. The calculation results demonstrate a significant reduction in processing time, decreased from 2.17 ms to 0.98 ms. Additionally, the results also show the computational efficiency increases as the degrees of freedom of robot model increase.
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J. Ahn, J. Jung, Y. Lee, H. Lee, S. Haddadin, and J. Park, “Efficient Computation of Whole-body Control Utilizing Simplified Whole-body Dynamics via Centroidal Dynamics,” International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems 2025 23:9, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 2656–2665, Sep. 2025, doi: 10.1007/S12555-024-1014-X
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