Gait Planning and Simulation of 3-RRP Legged Mobile Robot

In order to meet the requirements of keeping the body posture level with the ground during the movement of the quadruped robots, this paper designs a quadruped robot with three joints and three degrees of freedom in each leg, which is a 3-RRP kinematic chain. The legs and body of the quadruped robot are virtually modeled by SolidWorks. Combining the forward and inverse kinematics analysis, the reasonable and ideal foot trajectory and body motion trajectory are planned in Matlab. The gait stability is based on the ZMP stability criterion and is quantified by the stability margin. According to the structural characteristics of the quadruped robot in this paper, the body posture adjustment strategy is proposed. Finally, the simulation is carried out under the two gait plannings of straight driving and turning using ADAMS. The simulation results show that the quadruped robot has a reasonable walking gait on the flat road surface with little impact on the body. The minimum stability margin of the strategy with body adjustment is improved compared with the strategy without body adjustment.