Published in IEEE-ICRA - Submitted, in review, 2025
In this paper, we propose a method to include collision avoidance in the control of a manipulator robot based on a velocity damper model. This allows to account for approach velocity and permits collision avoidance for a wider spectrum of applications than classical avoidance methods. We implemented our method on a Panda robot to perform several comparisons. In this paper, I mainly contributed to writing the derivatives of the collision avoidance constraint with respect to the robot state and controls in order to use it in a DDP setting.
Recommended citation: Arthur Haffemayer, Armand Jordana, Ludovic de Matteis, Krzysztof Wojciechowski, Florent Lamiraux, et al.. Collision Avoidance in Model Predictive Control using Velocity Damper. 2024. https://gepettoweb.laas.fr/articles/haffemayer2025.html