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Continuum manipulators have gained significant attention as a promising alternative to rigid manipulators, offering notable advantages in terms of flexibility and adaptability within intricate workspace. However, the broader application of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yinan Sun , Sai Wang

Although inverse kinematics of serial manipulators is a well studied problem, challenges still exist in finding smooth feasible solutions that are also collision aware. Furthermore, with collaborative service robots gaining traction,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Salih Marangoz , Rohit Menon , Nils Dengler , Maren Bennewitz

Computing optimal, collision-free trajectories for high-dimensional systems is a challenging problem. Sampling-based planners struggle with the dimensionality, whereas trajectory optimizers may get stuck in local minima due to inherent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Thomas Cohn , Mark Petersen , Max Simchowitz , Russ Tedrake

As the pace of AI technology continues to accelerate, more tools have become available to researchers to solve longstanding problems, Hybrid approaches available today continue to push the computational limits of efficiency and precision.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Enoch Adediran , Salem Ameen

Set-Based Multi-Task Priority is a recent framework to handle inverse kinematics for redundant structures. Both equality tasks, i.e., control objectives to be driven to a desired value, and set-bases tasks, i.e., control objectives to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Paolo Di Lillo , Stefano Chiaverini , Gianluca Antonelli

Robotic manipulators are often designed with more actuated degrees-of-freedom than required to fully control an end effector's position and orientation. These "redundant" manipulators can allow infinite joint configurations that satisfy a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Julia Ashkanazy , Ariana Spalter , Joe Hays , Laura Hiatt , Roxana Leontie , C. Glen Henshaw

This paper proposes a new, robust method to solve the inverse kinematics (IK) of multi-segment continuum manipulators. Conventional Jacobian-based solvers, especially when initialized from neutral/rest configurations, often exhibit slow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Weiting Feng , Federico Renda , Yunjie Yang , Francesco Giorgio-Serchi

Robotics is shifting from rigid, articulated systems to more sophisticated and heterogeneous mechanical structures. Soft robots, for example, have continuously deformable elements capable of large deformations. The flourishing of control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Pietro Pustina , Cosimo Della Santina , Alessandro De Luca

The linearization of the equations of motion of a robotics system about a given state-input trajectory, including a controlled equilibrium state, is a valuable tool for model-based planning, closed-loop control, gain tuning, and state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Martijn Bos , Silvio Traversaro , Daniele Pucci , Alessandro Saccon

This paper presents ETA-IK, a novel Execution-Time-Aware Inverse Kinematics method tailored for dual-arm robotic systems. The primary goal is to optimize motion execution time by leveraging the redundancy of both arms, specifically in tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yucheng Tang , Xi Huang , Yongzhou Zhang , Tao Chen , Ilshat Mamaev , Björn Hein

This paper presents an analytical solution to the inverse kinematic problem(IKP) for the seven degree-of-freedom (7-DOF) Moz1 Robot Arm with offsets on wrist. We provide closed-form solutions with the novel arm angle . it allow fully…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ke Chen

It is well-understood that the robustness of mechanical and robotic control systems depends critically on minimizing sensitivity to arbitrary application-specific details whenever possible. For example, if a system is defined and performs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-06 Bo Zhang , Jeffrey Uhlmann

Inverse Kinematics (IK) is a core problem in robotics, in which joint configurations are found to achieve a desired end-effector pose. Although analytical solvers are fast and efficient, they are limited to systems with low…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Cael Yasutake , Zachary Kingston , Brian Plancher

Closed kinematic chains are created whenever multiple robot arms concurrently manipulate a single object. The closed-chain constraint, when coupled with robot joint limits, dramatically changes the connectivity of the configuration space.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Xian Zhou , Puttichai Lertkultanon , Quang-Cuong Pham

The kinematics recursive equation was built by using the modified D-H method after the structure of rehabilitation lower extremity exoskeleton was analyzed. The numerical algorithm of inverse kinematics was given too. Then the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Jiangcheng Chen , Xiaodong Zhang , Lei Zhu

This paper presents motion planning algorithms for underactuated systems evolving on rigid rotation and displacement groups. Motion planning is transcribed into (low-dimensional) combinatorial selection and inverse-kinematics problems. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sonia Martinez , Jorge Cortes , Francesco Bullo

The problem of determining the configuration of points from partial distance information, known as the Euclidean Distance Geometry (EDG) problem, is fundamental to many tasks in the applied sciences. In this paper, we propose two algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Chandler Smith , HanQin Cai , Abiy Tasissa

Forward and backward reaching inverse kinematics (FABRIK) is a heuristic inverse kinematics solver that is gradually applied to manipulators with the advantages of fast convergence and generating more realistic configurations. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zichun Xu , Yuntao Li , Xiaohang Yang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Jingdong Zhao , Hong Liu

In this paper we present a framework that allows the motion control of a robotic arm automatically handling different kinds of safety-related tasks. The developed controller is based on a Task-Priority Inverse Kinematics algorithm that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Paolo Di Lillo , Filippo Arrichiello , Gianluca Antonelli , Stefano Chiaverini

We propose a new algorithm to solve optimization problems of the form $\min f(X)$ for a smooth function $f$ under the constraints that $X$ is positive semidefinite and the diagonal blocks of $X$ are small identity matrices. Such problems…

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