Unified preview control for humanoid postural stability and upper-limb interaction adaptation

This paper proposes a robust whole-body control formulation for biped balance in disturbed conditions by manipulation tasks. In order to include the effects of the interaction of the robot with its environment, required by the manipulation task in the balance control, we introduce a distributed preview control which captures both balance and manipulation behaviors and enables the regulation of the interaction impedance. The initial ZMP preview control is extended to take into account the disturbance resulting from the manipulation task and the preview control of adaptive impedances used to drive the upper-limbs. The resulting behavior is illustrated in a simple scenario. Its aptitude to dynamically extract an optimal control strategy improving tracking performances of both manipulation and balance tasks is also assessed when complex perturbations have to be compensated.

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