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FROST: Fast Robot Optimization and Simulation Toolkit

FROST (Fast Robot Optimization and Simulation Toolkit) for MATLAB provides a general full-body dynamics gait optimization and simulation framework for bipedal walking robots using virtual constraints based feedback controllers. The Wolfram Mathematica backend enables generation of analytic expressions for multi-domain system dynamics and kinematics symbolically, which are exported as C/C++ source that could be compiled as *.MEX files under MATLAB to boost the computational speed. FROST also features state-of-the-art direct collocation approaches for the full-order dynamics gait optimization problems to guarantee fast and reliable convergence.

Some key features includes:

  • Use Mathematica Kernel as a backend, use ‘MathLink’ to send data/commands to Mathematica Kernel from Matlab.
  • Dynamic bipedal walking is modelled as a hybrid system that consists of both continuous phases (domains) and discrete transitions (reset maps).
  • The domain structure of the hybrid system is described via a Directed Graph (digraph).
  • The directed graph could be either cyclic or acyclic.
  • The default control law uses the virtual constraints based feedback controllers.

Related literatures:

  • Feedback control of dynamic bipedal robot locomotion, by E.R.Westervelt, J.W.Grizzle, C.Chevallereau, J.-H.Choi and B.Morris.
  • etc...

For more information, please visit the official documentation webpage: http://ayonga.github.io/frost-dev

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