Integration of vertical COM motion and angular momentum in an extended Capture Point tracking controller for bipedal walking

In this paper, we demonstrate methods for bipedal walking control based on the Capture Point (CP) methodology. In particular, we introduce a method to intuitively derive a CP reference trajectory from the next three steps and extend the linear inverted pendulum (LIP) based CP tracking controller introduced in [1], generalizing it to a model that contains vertical CoM motions and changes in angular momentum. Respecting the dynamics of general multibody systems, we propose a measurement-based compensation of multi-body effects, which leads to a stable closed-loop dynamics of bipedal walking robots. In addition we propose a ZMP projection method, which prevents the robots feet from tilting and ensures the best feasible CP tracking. The extended CP controller's performance is validated in OpenHRP3 [2] simulations and compared to the controller proposed in [1].

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