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🏁 Motion state controller

The motion controller is a finite state machine that allows for static and dynamic posing, 8-phase crawl, bezier-based trot gait, and choreographed animation.

Controller Input Mapping

The controller input is interpreted differently between the modes. For walking, it looks like this:

Controller Input Mapped to Gait Step Range
Left x joystick Step x -1 to 1
Left y joystick Step z -1 to 1
Right x joystick Step angle -1 to 1
Right y joystick Body pitch angle -1 to 1
Height slider Body height 0 to 1
Speed slider Step velocity 0 to 1
S1 slider Step height 0 to 1
Stop button E stop command 0 or 1

Walking gait

General description of walking gait.

Time step

Phase condition

Stance and swing controller

8-phase crawl gait

The 8-phase crawl gait works by lifting one leg at a time while shifting the body weight away from that leg.

As the name implies, the gait consists of 8 discrete phases, which represent which feet should be in contact with the ground or in swing.

At each time step the phase time t\in [0,1] is updated. When t\geq 1 the phase index is updated and phase time is reset.

Is derived from mike4192 spotMicro

Trot gait (12 point bezier curve)

The trot gait implements a phase time t\in[0,1], but instead of using contact phases we define a swing/stance ratio of phase time offset for each leg.

The stance controller implements a sin curve to control the depth of steps.

The swing controller implements a bezier curve using 12 control points centered around the robot leg.

Rotation is calulated using the same curve