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This paper revisits the numerical inverse kinematics (IK) problem, leveraging modern computational resources and refining the seed selection process to develop a solver that is competitive with analytical-based methods. The proposed seed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Xinyi Yuan , Weiwei Wan , Kensuke Harada

The majority of inverse kinematics (IK) algorithms search for solutions in a configuration space defined by joint angles. However, the kinematics of many robots can also be described in terms of distances between rigidly-attached points,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Filip Marić , Matthew Giamou , Ivan Petrović , Jonathan Kelly

Inverse Kinematics (IK) solves the problem of mapping from the Cartesian space to the joint configuration space of a robotic arm. It has a wide range of applications in areas such as computer graphics, protein structure prediction, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Chi-Kai Ho , Chung-Ta King

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

We consider the problem of inverse kinematics (IK), where one wants to find the parameters of a given kinematic skeleton that best explain a set of observed 3D joint locations. The kinematic skeleton has a tree structure, where each node is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Tarun Yenamandra , Florian Bernard , Jiayi Wang , Franziska Mueller , Christian Theobalt

This paper proposes a novel inverse kinematics (IK) solver of articulated robotic systems for path planning. IK is a traditional but essential problem for robot manipulation. Recently, data-driven methods have been proposed to quickly solve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Suhan Park , Mathew Schwartz , Jaeheung Park

Calculating the inverse kinematics (IK) is a fundamental challenge in robotics. Compared to numerical or learning-based approaches, analytical IK provides higher efficiency and accuracy. However, existing analytical approaches are difficult…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Daniel Ostermeier , Jonathan Külz , Matthias Althoff

Quickly and reliably finding accurate inverse kinematics (IK) solutions remains a challenging problem for many robot manipulators. Existing numerical solvers are broadly applicable but typically only produce a single solution and rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Oliver Limoyo , Filip Marić , Matthew Giamou , Petra Alexson , Ivan Petrović , Jonathan Kelly

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

Inverse kinematics (IK) is a core operation in animation, robotics, and biomechanics: given Cartesian constraints, recover joint rotations under a known kinematic tree. In many real-time human avatar pipelines, the available signal per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan , Chen-Yu Wang , Tim Prokosch , Michael Lorenz , Bertram Taetz , Didier Stricker

Inverse Kinematics (IK) plays a critical role in robotic motion planning and control. The IK solutions of a robot manipulator could be done by conventional ways such as geometric, algebraic, or Jacobian methods, which have drawbacks. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Dong-Won Lim

Inverse kinematics - finding joint poses that reach a given Cartesian-space end-effector pose - is a common operation in robotics, since goals and waypoints are typically defined in Cartesian space, but robots must be controlled in joint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Barrett Ames , Jeremy Morgan , George Konidaris

Inverse kinematics (IK) is the problem of finding robot joint configurations that satisfy constraints on the position or pose of one or more end-effectors. For robots with redundant degrees of freedom, there is often an infinite, nonconvex…

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Zineb Benhmidouch , Saad Moufid , Aissam Ait Omar

Quickly and reliably finding accurate inverse kinematics (IK) solutions remains a challenging problem for robotic manipulation. Existing numerical solvers typically produce a single solution only and rely on local search techniques to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Oliver Limoyo , Filip Marić , Matthew Giamou , Petra Alexson , Ivan Petrović , Jonathan Kelly

Inverse kinematics is a fundamental problem for articulated robots: fast and accurate algorithms are needed for translating task-related workspace constraints and goals into feasible joint configurations. In general, inverse kinematics for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Filip Maric , Matthew Giamou , Soroush Khoubyarian , Ivan Petrovic , Jonathan Kelly

This paper shows how a Graph Neural Network (GNN) can be used to learn an Inverse Kinematics (IK) based on an automatically generated dataset. The generated Inverse Kinematics is generalized to a family of manipulators with the same Degree…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Pravin Pandey , Julia Reuter , Christoph Steup , Sanaz Mostaghim

Analytic and optimization methods for solving inverse kinematics (IK) problems have been deeply studied throughout the history of robotics. The two strategies have complementary strengths and weaknesses, but developing a unified approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Thomas Cohn , Lihan Tang , Alexandre Amice , Russ Tedrake

This paper presents an efficient learning-based method to solve the inverse kinematic (IK) problem on soft robots with highly non-linear deformation. The major challenge of efficiently computing IK for such robots is due to the lack of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Guoxin Fang , Yingjun Tian , Zhi-Xin Yang , Jo M. P. Geraedts , Charlie C. L. Wang

Solving the analytical inverse kinematics (IK) of redundant manipulators in real time is a difficult problem in robotics since its solution for a given target pose is not unique. Moreover, choosing the optimal IK solution with respect to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Minh Nhat Vu , Florian Beck , Michael Schwegel , Christian Hartl-Nesic , Anh Nguyen , Andreas Kugi
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