Xpeng announces patent for robot gait adjustment

Qichacha APP shows that recently, Guangzhou Xiaopeng Motors Technology Co., Ltd. has filed and released the patent application titled “A Gait Adjustment Method, Apparatus, Equipment, and Storage Medium for Robots.”

The patent abstract shows that the present invention relates to the field of intelligent robots, and discloses a gait adjustment method, an apparatus, equipment, and a storage medium for a robot. The method includes: obtaining target sampling points for a humanoid robot’s foot, as well as the coordinate values and terrain elevation data corresponding to each target sampling point; calculating a foot placement return value for the humanoid robot based on the coordinate values and the terrain elevation data corresponding to each target sampling point; obtaining the maximum terrain elevation data within a preset radius for each target sampling point, and calculating a kicking step return value for the humanoid robot based on the coordinate values and the maximum terrain elevation data; adjusting the gait of the humanoid robot based on the foot placement return value and the kicking step return value. The present invention guides a humanoid robot to perform precise gait adjustment by obtaining the coordinates of the target sampling points and the terrain elevation data, and calculating two types of return values—foot placement and kicking steps—thereby improving the robot’s autonomous motion adaptability and stability on complex terrains such as staircases.