Consensus complementarity control for multi-contact mpc

A Aydinoglu, A Wei, WC Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a hybrid model predictive control algorithm, consensus complementarity
control, for systems that make and break contact with their environment. Many state-of-the …

Bundled gradients through contact via randomized smoothing

HJT Suh, T Pang, R Tedrake - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The empirical success of derivative-free methods in reinforcement learning for planning
through contact seems at odds with the perceived fragility of classical gradient-based …

Trajectotree: Trajectory optimization meets tree search for planning multi-contact dexterous manipulation

C Chen, P Culbertson, M Lepert… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dexterous manipulation tasks often require contact switching, where fingers make and break
contact with the object. We propose a method that plans trajectories for dexterous …

Inverse dynamics trajectory optimization for contact-implicit model predictive control

V Kurtz, A Castro, AÖ Önol, H Lin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.01813, 2023 - arxiv.org
Robots must make and break contact with the environment to perform useful tasks, but
planning and control through contact remains a formidable challenge. In this work, we …

Non-prehensile planar manipulation via trajectory optimization with complementarity constraints

J Moura, T Stouraitis… - … Conference on Robotics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contact adaptation is an essential capability when manipulating objects. Two key contact
modes of non-prehensile manipulation are sticking and sliding. This paper presents a …

Contact-implicit mpc: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories

G Kim, D Kang, JH Kim, S Hong, HW Park - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a contact-implicit model predictive control (MPC) framework for the real-
time discovery of multi-contact motions, without predefined contact mode sequences or …

Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories

G Kim, D Kang, JH Kim, S Hong… - … International Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents a contact-implicit model predictive control (MPC) framework for the real-
time discovery of multi-contact motions, without predefined contact mode sequences or …

Contact-implicit trajectory optimization using an analytically solvable contact model for locomotion on variable ground

I Chatzinikolaidis, Y You, Z Li - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a novel contact-implicit trajectory optimization method using an
analytically solvable contact model to enable planning of interactions with hard, soft, and …

Real-time deformable-contact-aware model predictive control for force-modulated manipulation

L Wijayarathne, Z Zhou, Y Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The force modulation of robotic manipulators has been extensively studied for several
decades. However, it is not yet commonly used in safety-critical applications due to a lack of …

Affordance-based mobile robot navigation among movable obstacles

M Wang, R Luo, AÖ Önol, T Padir - 2020 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Avoiding obstacles in the perceived world has been the classical approach to autonomous
mobile robot navigation. However, this usually leads to unnatural and inefficient motions that …