To address the disturbances to the pitch and roll angles of inspection robots caused by unstructured terrain, a novel four-wheel-legged robot (FWLR) with active attitude control capability was developed based on the wheel-legged structure. Then, a Skyhook-PID posture control strategy was proposed according to the model dimensionality reduction concept. Finally, the posture control performance was verified through posture tracking tests and control experiments on unstructured terrain. The results demonstrate that the proposed control strategy based on dimensionality reduction achieves faster convergence and superior posture control performance. When traveling continuously over unstructured terrain with speed bumps, stable body operation is maintained with small fluctuations in pitch and roll angles, proving excellent terrain adaptability. This research is of positive significance for promoting the further application of inspection robots.
整机为纵、横向对称结构,各轮腿之间独立工作、互不干扰,并且能够依靠两侧车轮转速差实现原地转向控制,如图3所示。原地转向能够减小机器人的转弯半径。FWLR整机采用车规级CAN总线进行通讯,通过Kvaser/pc以及车辆控制单元(Vehicle control unit,VCU)向各执行机构发送协议代码,即可实现整机的姿态控制、驱动控制以及转向控制。
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