Practical 3-D Object detection using category and instance-level appearance models

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Abstract

Bipedal walking in human environments is made difficult by the unevenness of the terrain and by external disturbances. Most approaches to bipedal walking in such environments either rely upon a precise model of the surface or special hardware designed for uneven terrain. In this paper, we present an alternative approach to stabilize the walking of an inexpensive, commercially-available, position-controlled humanoid robot in difficult environments. We use electrically compliant swing foot dynamics and onboard sensors to estimate the inclination of the local surface, and use a online learning algorithm to learn an adaptive surface model. Perturbations due to external disturbances or model errors are rejected by a hierarchical push recovery controller, which modulates three biomechanically motivated push recovery controllers according to the current estimated state. We use a physically realistic simulation with an articulated robot model and reinforcement learning algorithm to train the push recovery controller, and implement the learned controller on a commercial DARwIn-OP small humanoid robot. Experimental results show that this combined approach enables the robot to walk over unknown, uneven surfaces without falling down.

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