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This paper presents a unified approach for inverse and direct dynamics of constrained multibody systems that can serve as a basis for analysis, simulation, and control. The main advantage of the formulation of the dynamic is that it does…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Farhad Aghili

A kinetic equation is derived for the phase density of a system of point particles, generating a system of integro-differential equations for distribution functions that have a deterministic meaning. The derivation took into account the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-23 V. V. Zubkov , A. V. Zubkova

Inverse kinematic (IK) methods recover the parameters of the joints, given the desired position of selected elements in the kinematic chain. While the problem is well-defined and low-dimensional, it has to be solved rapidly, accounting for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Raphael Bensadoun , Shir Gur , Nitsan Blau , Tom Shenkar , Lior Wolf

The aim of this survey is to present the main important techniques and tools from variational analysis used for first and second order dynamical systems of implicit type for solving monotone inclusions and non-smooth optimization problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Ernö Robert Csetnek

We present a new framework for prioritized multi-task motion-force control of fully-actuated robots. This work is established on a careful review and comparison of the state of the art. Some control frameworks are not optimal, that is they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Andrea Del Prete , Francesco Nori , Giorgio Metta , Lorenzo Natale

We study the dynamical response of a diatomic periodic chain of rotors coupled by springs, whose unit cell breaks spatial inversion symmetry. In the continuum description, we derive a nonlinear field theory which admits topological kinks…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-08 Yujie Zhou , Bryan Gin-ge Chen , Nitin Upadhyaya , Vincenzo Vitelli

This paper investigates first-order variable metric backward forward dynamical systems associated with monotone inclusion and convex minimization problems in real Hilbert space. The operators are chosen so that the backward-forward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Pankaj Gautam , D. R. Sahu , J. C. Yao

This paper investigates a constrained inverse kinematic (IK) problem that seeks a feasible configuration of an articulated robot under various constraints such as joint limits and obstacle collision avoidance. Due to the high-dimensionality…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yu Chen , Yilin Cai , Jinyun Xu , Zhongqiang Ren , Guanya Shi , Howie Choset

It is a common problem in robotics to specify the position of each joint of the robot so that the endpoint reaches a certain target in space. This can be solved in two ways, forward kinematics method and inverse kinematics method. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Hao-Tang Tsui , Yu-Rou Tuan , Hong-Han Shuai

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new Kirk type iterative algorithm called Kirk multistep iteration and to study its convergence. We also prove some theorems related with the stability results for the Kirk-multistep and Kirk-SP…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-11 Faik Gürsoy , Vatan Karakaya , B. E. Rhoades

We introduce a class of first-order methods for smooth constrained optimization that are based on an analogy to non-smooth dynamical systems. Two distinctive features of our approach are that (i) projections or optimizations over the entire…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Michael Muehlebach , Michael I. Jordan

Inverse Kinematics (IK) is to find the robot's configurations that satisfy the target pose of the end effector. In motion planning, diverse configurations were required in case a feasible trajectory was not found. Meanwhile, collision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Qinglong Meng , Chongkun Xia , Xueqian Wang

This work investigates a dynamical system functioning as a nonsmooth adaptation of the continuous Newton method, aimed at minimizing the sum of a primal lower-regular and a locally Lipschitz function, both potentially nonsmooth. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Juan Guillermo Garrido , Pedro Pérez-Aros , Emilio Vilches

The theoretical understanding of pattern formation in active systems remains a central problem of interest. Heterogeneous flocks made up of multiple species can exhibit a remarkable diversity of collective states that cannot be obtained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Eloise Lardet , Letian Chen , Thibault Bertrand

Soft robots are interesting examples of hyper-redundancy in robotics, however, the nonlinear continuous dynamics of these robots and the use of hyper-elastic and visco-elastic materials makes modeling of these robots more complicated. This…

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This paper investigates optimal control problems formulated over a class of piecewise-smooth vector fields. Instead of optimizing over the discontinuous system directly, we instead formulate optimal control problems over a family of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Tyler Westenbroek , Xiaobin Xiong , Aaron D Ames , S Shankar Sastry

In this paper, we investigate the inverse quasi-variational inequality problem in finite-dimensional spaces. First, we introduce a second-order dynamical system whose trajectory converges exponentially to the solution of the inverse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Pham Viet Hai , Thanh Quoc Trinh , Phan Tu Vuong

Motivated by the study of reversal behaviour of myxobacteria, in this article we are interested in a kinetic model for reversal dynamics, in which particles with directions close to be opposite undergo binary collision resulting in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Amic Frouvelle , Laura Kanzler , Christian Schmeiser

The dynamics of the solutions to a class of conservative SPDEs are analysed from two perspectives: Firstly, a probabilistic construction of a corresponding random dynamical system is given for the first time. Secondly, the existence and…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Benjamin Fehrman , Benjamin Gess , Rishabh S. Gvalani

This paper concerns a new class of discontinuous dynamical systems for constrained optimization. These dynamics are particularly suited to solve nonlinear, non-convex problems in closed-loop with a physical system. Such approaches using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Adrian Hauswirth , Florian Dörfler , Andrew Teel