Patents by Inventor Yizhang Líu

Yizhang Líu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220379469
    Abstract: A massage motion control method, a robot controller using the same, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: calculating a robot end desired speed and a robot end desired angular speed corresponding to a desired massage trajectory of a massage robot to compensate using two obtained robot end compensation amounts in the case that the desired massage trajectory for a target massage area at a current control cycle, a robot end speed compensation amount meeting a desired massage intensity requirement, and a robot end angular speed compensation amount adapted to an environmental curvature of the target massage area are obtained, and controlling the massage robot by determining a corresponding to-be-outputted joint angle based on motion parameter(s) obtained by the compensation. In this manner, the adaptive change of the massage position and the massage intensity for the massage area of the patient can be realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Xianwen Zeng, Yizhang Liu, Youjun Xiong
  • Publication number: 20220355479
    Abstract: A gait planning method and a robot using the same as well as a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining a reference leg length l0 and a leg length variation range A of a robot; performing a trajectory planning on a length of at least one of the legs of the robot using; an equation including the reference leg length, the leg length variation range, and a preset recurrent excitation function of a time variable t. In this manner, the trajectory planning for the leg length of the robot during motion is performed according to the characteristics of motion scene such as robot jumping or running so that the change of the leg length of the robot is adapted to the motion process, which greatly improves the stability of the robot in the motion scene such as jumping or running.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jie Bai, Yizhang Liu, Ligang Ge, Chunyu Chen, Qiuyue Luo, Youjun Xiong
  • Publication number: 20220324106
    Abstract: A motion control method, a robot controller, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: calculating an inverse Jacobian matrix of a whole-body generalized coordinate vector at a current time relative to an actual task space vector of a humanoid robot; calculating a target generalized coordinate vector corresponding to a to-be-executed task space vector at a current moment by combining an actual task space vector and the to-be-executed task space vector into a null space of the inverse Jacobian matrix according to preset position constraint(s) corresponding to the whole-body generalized coordinate vector; and controlling a motion state of the humanoid robot according to the target generalized coordinate vector. In this manner, the motion of the humanoid robot is optimized as a whole to achieve the purpose of controlling the humanoid robot to avoid the limits of the motion of joints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Zhihao Zhang, Yizhang Liu, Jinliang Chen, Youjun Xiong
  • Patent number: 11420694
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a robot gait planning method and a robot with the same. The method includes: obtaining, through the sensor set, force information of feet of the robot under a force applied by a target object; calculating coordinates of zero moment points of the feet of the robot with respect to a centroid of a body of the robot based on the force information; and determining a gait planning result for the robot based on the coordinates of the zero moment points with respect to the centroid of the body. The present disclosure is capable of converting the force of the target object to the zero moment points, and using the zero moment points to perform the gait planning, so that the robot follows the target object in the case that the robot is subjected to a force of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Chunyu Chen, Yizhang Liu, Ligang Ge, Jianxin Pang
  • Publication number: 20220203526
    Abstract: A humanoid robot control method, a mobile machine using the same, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: mapping posture information of leg joints of a human body to leg joint servos of a humanoid robot to obtain an expected rotation angle and an expected rotation angular velocity of non-target optimized joint servos of the leg joint servos and an expected rotation angle and an expected rotation angular velocity of target optimized joint servos of the leg joint servos; obtaining an optimization objective function corresponding to the target optimized joint servos of the leg joint servos; optimizing the expected rotation angle and the expected rotation angular velocity of the target optimized joint servos to obtain a corrected expected rotation angle and a corrected expected rotation angular velocity of the target optimized joint servos; and controlling each of the leg joint servos of the humanoid robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Jie BAI, Ligang GE, Yizhang LIU, Youjun XIONG
  • Publication number: 20220206501
    Abstract: A dynamic footprint set generation method, a biped robot using die same, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining preset footprint calculation parameters; calculating a landing point position based on the preset footprint calculation parameters; determining a landing point range based on a landing point position, and performing a collision detection on the landing point range; recording the corresponding landing point position in a footprint set in response to the detection result representing there being no collision; obtaining a preset adjustment amplitude to update a preset displacement angle after the recording is completed; and returning to the calculating the landing point position until the footprint set is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Xingxing Ma, Chunyu Chen, Yizhang Liu, Ligang Ge, Hongge Wang, Jie Bai, Jiangchen Zhou, Zheng Xie
  • Publication number: 20220203521
    Abstract: A control method for a robot includes: determining a desired zero moment point (ZMP) of the robot; obtaining a position of a left foot and a position of a right foot of the robot, and calculating desired support forces of the left foot and the right foot according to the desired ZMP, the positions of the left foot and the right foot; obtaining measured support forces of the left foot and the right foot, and calculating an amount of change in length of the left leg and an amount of change in length of the right leg according to the desired support forces of the left foot and the right foot, the measured support forces of the left foot and the right foot; and controlling the robot to walk according to the amount of change in length of the left leg and the right leg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Ligang Ge, Yizhang Liu, Chunyu Chen, Zheng Xie, Youjun Xiong
  • Publication number: 20220203522
    Abstract: A robot control method includes: determining a planned capture point and a measured capture point of the robot so as to calculate a capture point error of the robot; obtaining positions of a left foot and a right foot of the robot, and a planned zero moment point (ZMP) of the robot so as to calculate desired support forces of the left foot and the right foot; calculating desired torques of the left foot and the right foot according to the capture point error, the desired support forces of the left foot and the right foot; obtaining measured torques of the left foot and the right foot so as to calculate desired poses of the left foot and the right foot; and controlling the robot to walk according to the desired poses of the left foot and the desired pose of the right foot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Ligang Ge, Yizhang Liu, Chunyu Chen, Zheng Xie, Youjun Xiong
  • Publication number: 20220203534
    Abstract: A path planning method and a biped robot using the same are provided. The method includes: generating a candidate node set for a next foot placement based on a biped robot's own parameters and joint information of a current node, adding valid candidate nodes in the candidate node set to a priority queue so as to select optimal nodes for realizing next node expansion. These optimal nodes are output to generate a foot placement sequence from an initial node to a target node, which can greatly reduce the search amount for path nodes when the robot's legs intersect and touch the ground, thereby improving the efficiency of path planning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Xingxing Ma, Chunyn Chen, Ligang Ge, Yizhang Liu, Hongge Wang, Jie Bai, Zheng Xie, Jiangchen Zhou, Meihui Zhang, Shuo Zhang, Youjun Xiong
  • Publication number: 20220194500
    Abstract: A stepping down trajectory planning method as well as a robot using the same and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: dividing a stepping down process of the robot into a plurality of planned stages; adjusting a start position of a swing leg of the robot according to an ankle-to-heel distance, where the ankle-to-heel distance is a horizontal distance between an ankle joint of the swing leg of the robot and a heel of the swing leg of the robot; determining an initial state and an end state of the swing leg in each of the planned stages according to the start position; and obtaining a planned trajectory of the swing leg by performing a curve fitting on the swing leg in each of the planned stages the initial state and the end state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Hongge Wang, Ligang Ge, Yizhang Liu, Jie Bai, Chunyu Chen, Xingxing Ma, Jiangchen Zhou, Youjun Xiong
  • Publication number: 20220193899
    Abstract: A pose control method for a robot includes: estimating a first set of joint angular velocities of all joints of the robot according to a balance control algorithm; estimating a second set of joint angular velocities of all joints of the robot according to a momentum planning algorithm; estimating a third set of joint angular velocities of all joints of the robot according to a pose return-to-zero algorithm; and performing pose control on the robot according to the first set of joint angular velocities, the second set of joint angular velocities, and the third set of joint angular velocities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Hongge Wang, Chunyu Chen, Yizhang Liu, Ligang Ge, Jie Bai, Xingxing Ma, Jiangchen Zhou, Youjun Xiong
  • Publication number: 20220193896
    Abstract: A robot balance control method as well as a robot using the same and a computer readable storage medium are provided. In the method, a brand new flywheel model different from the existing flywheel model is created. In this flywheel model, the foot of the support leg of the robot is equivalent to the massless link of the flywheel model, while rest parts of the robot are equivalent to the flywheel of the flywheel model. Compared with the various models in the prior art, this flywheel model is more in line with the actual situation of the robot during the monoped supporting period. By controlling the posture of the foot of the support leg based on this flywheel model, a better balance effect can be achieved, which avoids the overturning of the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Hongge Wang, Chunyu Chen, Yizhang Liu, Ligang Ge, Jie Bai, Xingxing Ma, Jiangchen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220184808
    Abstract: A motion trajectory planning method for a robotic manipulator having a visual inspection system, includes: in response to a command instruction, obtaining environmental data collected by the visual inspection system; determining an initial DS model motion trajectory of the robotic manipulator according to the command instruction, the environmental data, and a preset teaching motion DS model library, wherein the teaching motion DS model library includes at least one DS model motion trajectory generated based on human teaching activities; and at least based on a result of determining whether there is an obstacle, whose pose is on the initial DS model motion trajectory, in a first object included in the environmental data, correcting the initial DS model motion trajectory to obtain a desired motion trajectory of the robotic manipulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Dake Zheng, Yizhang Liu, Jianxin Pang, Huan Tan, Youjun Xiong
  • Publication number: 20220184807
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a humanoid gait control method, device, apparatus and storage medium of humanoid robots. The method includes: obtaining a first vector from a virtual centroid to an ankle joint of a left leg of the humanoid robot at a current moment and a second vector from the virtual centroid to an ankle joint of a right leg at the current moment, and obtaining an original planning value of the virtual centroid of the current moment of the humanoid robot; determining a height of the target virtual centroid of the humanoid robot after the virtual centroid is reduced at the current moment according to the first vector, the second vector, the original planning value of the virtual centroid and a preset virtual centroid height reduction algorithm; and controlling the humanoid robot to walk on straight knees according to the height of the target virtual centroid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Jie Bai, Chunyu Chen, Ligang Ge, Yizhang Liu, Youjun Xiong
  • Publication number: 20220152827
    Abstract: A biped robot gait control method as well as a robot and a computer readable storage medium are provided. During the movement, the system obtains a current supporting pose of a current supporting leg of the biped robot, and calculates a relative pose between the supporting legs based on the current supporting pose and a preset ideal supporting pose of a next step. The system further calculates modified gait parameters of the next step based on the relative pose between the two supporting legs and a joint distance between left and right ankle joints in an initial state of the biped robot when standing. Finally, the system controls the next supporting leg to move according to the modified gait parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Xingxing Ma, Chunyu Chen, Ligang Ge, Hongge Wang, Mingqiang Huang, Jiangchen Zhou, Yizhang Liu, Zheng Xie, Youjun Xiong
  • Patent number: 11331802
    Abstract: A method for controlling an arm of a robot to imitate a human arm, includes: acquiring first pose information of key points of a human arm to be imitated; converting the first pose information into second pose information of key points of an arm of a robot; determining an angle value of each joint of the arm according to inverse kinematics of the arm based on the second pose information; and controlling the arm to move according to the angle values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Zecai Lin, Zhaohui An, Zheng Xie, Yizhang Liu, Youjun Xiong, Jianxin Pang
  • Patent number: 11331806
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a robot control method as well as an apparatus, and a robot using the same. The method includes: obtaining a human pose image; obtaining pixel information of key points in the human pose image; obtaining three-dimensional positional information of key points of a human arm according to the pixel information of the preset key points; obtaining a robotic arm kinematics model of a robot; obtaining an angle of each joint in the robotic arm kinematics model according to the three-dimensional positional information of the key points of the human arm and the robotic arm kinematics model; and controlling an arm of the robot to perform a corresponding action according to the angle of each joint. The control method does not require a three-dimensional stereo camera to collect three-dimensional coordinates of a human body, which reduces the cost to a certain extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Zecai Lin, Miaochen Guo, Yizhang Liu, Youjun Xiong, Jianxin Pang
  • Patent number: 11325247
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a robotic arm control method as well as an apparatus and a terminal device using the same. The method includes: obtaining a current joint angle of each of M joints of the robotic arm; obtaining a reference included angle based on the current joint angle of each of the M joints of the robotic arm; determining an expected included angle corresponding to the robotic arm within a target angle range based on the reference included angle and the preset included angle related evaluation function; and controlling the robotic arm based on the target joint angles of the M joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Zecai Lin, Zhaohui An, Yizhang Liu, Meihui Zhang, Youjun Xiong, Jianxin Pang
  • Publication number: 20220043453
    Abstract: A gait planning method includes: performing a gait planning in each center of mass (CoM) timing period of the robot based on a variable-height linear inverted pendulum model, which includes: acquiring a first step length and a second step length at a beginning of each CoM timing period; calculating a first height reduction amplitude and a first fluctuation amplitude of the CoM of the robot according to the first step length; calculating a second height reduction amplitude and a second fluctuation amplitude of the CoM of the robot according to the second step length; and performing a planning to the height of the CoM of the robot in the current CoM timing period, based on the first height reduction amplitude, the first fluctuation amplitude, the second height reduction amplitude, and the second fluctuation amplitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jie Bai, Ligang Ge, Yizhang Liu, Youjun Xiong, Jianxin Pang
  • Patent number: 11230001
    Abstract: There are a biped robot gait control method and a biped robot, where the method includes: obtaining six-dimensional force information, and determining a motion state of two legs of the biped robot; calculating a ZMP position of each of two legs of the biped robot; determining a ZMP expected value of each of the two legs in real time; obtaining a compensation angle of an ankle joint of each of the two legs of the biped robot by inputting the ZMP position, a change rate of the ZMP position, the ZMP expected value, and a change rate of the ZMP expected value to an ankle joint smoothing controller so as to perform a close-loop ZMP tracking control on each of the two legs; adjusting a current angle of the ankle joint of each of the two legs of the biped robot in real time; and repeating the forgoing steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Ligang Ge, Yizhang Liu, Chunyu Chen, Zheng Xie, Jianxin Pang