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Soft continuum robots achieve complex deformation through elastic equilibrium, making their reachable motions governed jointly by structural design and actuation-induced mechanics. This work develops a general formulation that integrates…
Continuum arms, such as trunk and tentacle robots, lie between the two extremities of rigid and soft robots and promise to capture the best of both worlds in terms of manipulability, dexterity, and compliance. This paper proposes a new…
Inverse Kinematics (IK) remains a dynamic field of research, with various methods striving for speed and precision. Despite advancements, many IK techniques face significant challenges, including high computational demands and the risk of…
Inverse kinematics is an important and challenging problem in the operation of industrial manipulators. This study proposes a simple inverse kinematics calculation scheme for an industrial serial manipulator. The proposed technique can…
Tracking Cartesian motion with end~effectors is a fundamental task in robot control. For motion that is not known in advance, the solvers must find fast solutions to the inverse kinematics (IK) problem for discretely sampled target poses.…
We study the path planning problem for continuum-arm robots, in which we are given a starting and an end point, and we need to compute a path for the tip of the continuum arm between the two points. We consider both cases where obstacles…
This paper introduces a closed-form analytical solution for the inverse kinematics (IK) of a 6 Degrees of Freedom (DOF) serial robotic manipulator arm, configured with six revolute joints and utilized within the Lunar Exploration Rover…
A hybrid continuum robot design is introduced that combines a proximal tendon-actuated section with a distal telescoping section comprised of permanent-magnet spheres actuated using an external magnet. While, individually, each section can…
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,…
To control humanoid robots, the reference pose of end effector(s) is planned in task space, then mapped into the reference joints by IK. By viewing that problem as approximate quadratic programming (QP), recent QP solvers can be applied to…
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…
Fast inverse kinematics (IK) is a central component in robotic motion planning. For complex robots, IK methods are often based on root search and non-linear optimization algorithms. These algorithms can be massively sped up using a neural…
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…
This article introduces the Clarke transform and Clarke coordinates, which present a solution to the disengagement of an arbitrary number of coupled displacement actuation of continuum and soft robots. The Clarke transform utilizes the…
Modern robotics applications require an inverse kinematics (IK) solver that is fast, robust and consistent, and that provides all possible solutions. Currently, the Franka robot arm is the most widely used manipulator in robotics research.…
Singular configurations cause loss of task-space mobility, unbounded joint velocities, and solver divergence in inverse kinematics (IK) for serial manipulators. No existing survey bridges classical singularity-robust IK with rapidly growing…
We propose an effective method for solving the inverse kinematic problem of a specific model of 6-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) robot manipulator using computer algebra. It is known that when the rotation axes of three consecutive rotational…
Conventional robots possess a limited understanding of their kinematics and are confined to preprogrammed tasks, hindering their ability to leverage tools efficiently. Driven by the essential components of tool usage - grasping the desired…
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…
Serial robot arms have complicated kinematic equations which must be solved to write effective arm planning and control software (the Inverse Kinematics Problem). Existing software packages for inverse kinematics often rely on numerical…