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Attitude stability control system for a hexapod bionic robot under hybrid disturbances

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Ping Zhang
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Jun Liu
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Kai Cao
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Yi Sun
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Youzhi Xu
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Andong Jiang
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Xuefei Liu
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Huan Shen
吉爱红 (Aihong Ji) *
DOI:10.1017/S0263574726103233delete
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Legged robots operating in irregular environments are often subjected to compound disturbances such as tilts and vibrations, which can degrade attitude stability and motion reliability. This paper presents a real-time disturbance-adaptive control framework for a hexapod robot. The proposed system integrates quaternion-based attitude estimation using an extended Kalman filter (EKF), a double-threshold pose classifier, and a modular gait library and is implemented on an embedded controller with a 2 ms control-loop latency. Analytical verification and laboratory experiments demonstrate that the proposed control loop achieves uniform ultimate boundedness (UUB) under deterministic hybrid disturbances composed of controlled tilt and vibration, with a mean recovery time of 5.7 s. These results demonstrate that a lightweight rule-based controller can ensure reliable posture recovery within the experimentally validated laboratory scenarios, providing a foundation for future extensions to more complex environments. The main contributions of this work are (1) a disturbance-adaptive gait selection architecture for quasi-static stabilization, (2) a noise-robust EKF-based attitude estimation and double-threshold pose determination scheme, and (3) a concise Lyapunov-based stability analysis demonstrating UUB of the closed-loop system.
Keywords:
hybrid disturbance
hexapod bionic robot
attitude shifts
attitude determination strategy
stability control algorithm

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Robotica
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nanjing university of aeronautics & astronautics
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Shenyang Ligong University
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