Upkie

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Overview:

  • Wheeled biped
  • 6 DoFs: 2 hips, 2 knees, 2 wheels
  • Open source and cost effective
  • Developed and built in-house
  • Torque controlled with transparent actuators (low reduction ratios)
  • Onboard battery (long autonomy)
  • Onboard computer (Raspberry Pi)

Main usages:

  • Policy learning
  • Whole body control
  • State estimation
Publications
PROXQP: an Efficient and Versatile Quadratic Programming Solver for Real-Time Robotics Applications and Beyond
Antoine Bambade, Fabian Schramm, Sarah El Kazdadi, Stéphane Caron, Adrien Taylor, Justin Carpentier
RSS, 2022

Control Estimation Balancing