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However, existing humanoid robot walking control frameworks predominantly focus on leg control, often overlooking the utilization of upper body joints. In this paper, a novel walking control framework combining the improved footstep planner and the whole-body coordination controller is proposed, aiming to improve the humanoid robot's tracking accuracy of desired speeds and its dynamic walking capability. First, we analyze the issues in traditional footstep planners based on Linear Inverted Pendulum and Model Predictive Control (LIP-MPC). By reconstructing the footstep optimization problem during walking using the Center-of-Mass (CoM) position, we propose an improved footstep planner to enhance the control accuracy of the desired walking speed in humanoid robots. Next, based on biological research, we define a coordinated control strategy for the arms and waist during walking. Specifically, the waist increases the robot's step length, while the arms counteract disturbance momentum and maintain balance. Based on the aforementioned strategy, we design a whole-body coordination controller for the humanoid robot. This controller adopts a novel hierarchical design approach, in which the dynamics and motion controllers for the upper and lower body are modeled and managed separately. This helps avoid the issue of poor control performance caused by multi-task coupling in traditional whole-body controllers. Finally, we integrate these controllers into a novel walking control framework and validate it on the simulation prototype of the humanoid robot Dexbot. Simulation results show that the proposed framework significantly enhances the maximum walking capability of the humanoid robot, demonstrating its feasibility and effectiveness.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fnbot.2025.1538979","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,21]],"date-time":"2025-02-21T06:39:02Z","timestamp":1740119942000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Walking control of humanoid robots based on improved footstep planner and whole-body coordination controller"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Xiangji","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Siyu","family":"Yin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sen","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fusheng","family":"Zha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mantian","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pengfei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaolin","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lining","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","article-title":"\u201cWhole-body walking pattern using pelvis-rotation for long stride and arm swing for yaw angular momentum compensation,\u201d","volume-title":"Proceeding of the IEEE-RAS 20th International Conference on Humanoid Robots","author":"Beomyeong","year":"2020"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"3908","DOI":"10.1109\/LRA.2018.2857511","volume":"4","author":"Dominic","year":"2018","journal-title":"IEEE Robot. 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