This work describes an online gain adaptation method to enhance the robustness of whole-body controllers for legged robots under unknown external force disturbances. Without properly accounting for external forces, the closed-loop control system incorporating WBC can easily become unstable, and therefore the desired task goals may not be achievable. The proposed method serves as a low-level controller for tracking whole-body trajectories more robustly than using fixed gain feedback control methods. Link to abstract:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.788902/abstract