A Tiered Planning Strategy for Biped Robots
- Joel Chestnutt
- James J. Kuffner
- The Robotics Institute
- Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Abstract
This paper presents a three-tiered planner for biped navigation over large distances
through complex environments where conventional 2D planning algorithms designed for
wheeled robots fail to find a solution. The lowest tier is a footstep planner which can
plan sequences of footholds for navigating through obstacles or over rough terrain. The
second tier is a mobile robot planner, which plans outward from the goal to the robot’s
initial state, building a heuristic to aid the lowest level planner in directing the footholds
toward a likely path. The highest tier chooses a long-term path to follow, ignoring the
details of how it will be implemented, and directs the lower levels during execution to
provide footstep sequences for the robot and notification of when re-planning is necessary.
Results are demonstrated with simulated environments and execution.
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