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For fully actuated rigid robots, kinematic inversion is a purely geometric problem, efficiently solved by closed-loop inverse kinematics (CLIK) schemes that compute joint configurations to position the robot body in space. For underactuated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Carina Veil , Moritz Flaschel , Ellen Kuhl , Cosimo Della Santina

The general inverse kinematics (IK) problem of a manipulator, namely that of acquiring the self-motion manifold (SMM) of all admissible joint angles for a desired end-effector pose, plays a vital role in robotics modeling, planning and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yajue Yang , Yuanqing Wu , Jia Pan

This paper presents an inverse kinematic optimization layer (IKOL) for 3D human pose and shape estimation that leverages the strength of both optimization- and regression-based methods within an end-to-end framework. IKOL involves a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Juze Zhang , Ye Shi , Yuexin Ma , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu , Jingya Wang

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Takumu Okazaki , Akira Terui , Masahiko Mikawa

Soft robotic manipulators provide numerous advantages over conventional rigid manipulators in fragile environments such as the marine environment. However, developing analytic inverse models necessary for shape, motion, and force control of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Abdelrahman Alkhodary , Berke Gur

This paper presents a method to generate feasible, unique forward-kinematic solutions for a general Stewart platform. This is done by using inverse kinematics to obtain valid workspace data and corresponding actuator lengths for the moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sourabh Karmakar , Cameron J. Turner

In this work we present CppFlow - a novel and performant planner for the Cartesian Path Planning problem, which finds valid trajectories up to 129x faster than current methods, while also succeeding on more difficult problems where others…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jeremy Morgan , David Millard , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

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.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Stefan Scherzinger , Arne Roennau , Rüdiger Dillmann

The dominant way to control a robot manipulator uses hand-crafted differential equations leveraging some form of inverse kinematics / dynamics. We propose a simple, versatile joint-level controller that dispenses with differential equations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Visak Kumar , David Hoeller , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Jonathan Tremblay , Stan Birchfield

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

Inverse problems consist in reconstructing signals from incomplete sets of measurements and their performance is highly dependent on the quality of the prior knowledge encoded via regularization. While traditional approaches focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Antonio Montanaro , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

This paper presents the open-source robot inverse kinematics (IK) solver IK-Geo, the fastest general IK solver based on published literature. In this unifying approach, IK for any 6-DOF all-revolute (6R) manipulator is decomposed into six…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Alexander J. Elias , John T. Wen

As a promising branch of robotics, imitation learning emerges as an important way to transfer human skills to robots, where human demonstrations represented in Cartesian or joint spaces are utilized to estimate task/skill models that can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yanlong Huang , Fares J. Abu-Dakka , João Silvério , Darwin G. Caldwell

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

Described here is a simple, reliable, and quite general method for rapid computation of robot arm inverse kinematic solutions and motion path plans in the presence of complex obstructions. The method derived from the MSC (map-seeking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 David W. Arathorn

This paper introduces a 3D parallel robot with three identical five-degree-of-freedom chains connected to a circular brace end-effector, aimed to serve as an assistive device for patients with cervical spondylosis. The inverse kinematics of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jingzong Zhou , Yuhan Zhu , Xiaobin Zhang , Sunil Agrawal , Konstantinos Karydis

Recent efforts on solving inverse problems in imaging via deep neural networks use architectures inspired by a fixed number of iterations of an optimization method. The number of iterations is typically quite small due to difficulties in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Davis Gilton , Gregory Ongie , Rebecca Willett

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

In this research, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been used as a powerful tool to solve the inverse kinematic equations of a parallel robot. For this purpose, we have developed the kinematic equations of a Tricept parallel kinematic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-10 J. Ghasemi , R. Moradinezhad , M. A. Hosseini

The Inverse Kinematics (IK) problem is to nd robot control parameters to bring it into the desired position under the kinematics and collision constraints. We present a global solution to the optimal IK problem for a general serial 7DOF…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Pavel Trutman , Safey El Din Mohab , Didier Henrion , Tomas Pajdla