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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.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Pablo C. Lopez-Custodio , Yuhe Gong , Luis F. C. Figueredo

Modern manipulators are acclaimed for their precision but often struggle to operate in confined spaces. This limitation has driven the development of hyper-redundant and continuum robots. While these present unique advantages, they face…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Avi Cohen , Avishai Sintov , David Zarrouk

Numerical methods for Inverse Kinematics (IK) employ iterative, linear approximations of the IK until the end-effector is brought from its initial pose to the desired final pose. These methods require the computation of the Jacobian of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jacket Demby's , Jeffrey Uhlmann , Guilherme N. DeSouza

Hyper-redundant Robotic Manipulators (HRMs) offer great dexterity and flexibility of operation, but solving Inverse Kinematics (IK) is challenging. In this work, we introduce VO-FABRIK, an algorithm combining Forward and Backward Reaching…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Cristian Morasso , Daniele Meli , Yann Divet , Salvatore Sessa , Alessandro Farinelli

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

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Prathamesh Kothavale , Sravani Boddepalli

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

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

In this paper, we address efficiently and robustly collecting objects stored in different trays using a mobile manipulator. A resolution complete method, based on precomputed reachability database, is proposed to explore collision-free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Jingren Xu , Kensuke Harada , Weiwei Wan , Toshio Ueshiba , Yukiyasu Domae

With the progress of 3D human pose and shape estimation, state-of-the-art methods can either be robust to occlusions or obtain pixel-aligned accuracy in non-occlusion cases. However, they cannot obtain robustness and mesh-image alignment at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jiefeng Li , Siyuan Bian , Qi Liu , Jiasheng Tang , Fan Wang , Cewu Lu

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Vishnu Rudrasamudram , Hariharasudan Malaichamee

Many applications require a robot to accurately track reference end-effector trajectories. Certain trajectories may not be tracked as single, continuous paths due to the robot's kinematic constraints or obstacles elsewhere in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yeping Wang , Carter Sifferman , Michael Gleicher

Human-to-humanoid imitation learning aims to learn a humanoid whole-body controller from human motion. Motion retargeting is a crucial step in enabling robots to acquire reference trajectories when exploring locomotion skills. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xingyu Chen , Hanyu Wu , Sikai Wu , Mingliang Zhou , Diyun Xiang , Haodong Zhang

Redundant manipulators are well understood to offer infinite joint configurations for achieving a desired end-effector pose. The multiplicity of inverse kinematics (IK) solutions allows for the simultaneous solving of auxiliary tasks like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Dominic Guri , George Kantor

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

Industrial automation with six-axis robotic arms is critical for many manufacturing tasks, including welding and additive manufacturing applications; however, many of these operations are functionally redundant due to the symmetrical tool…

Traditional offline redundancy resolution of trajectories for redundant manipulators involves computing inverse kinematic solutions for Cartesian space paths, constraining the manipulator to a fixed path without real-time adjustments.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Zhihang Yin , Fa Wu , Ziqian Wang , Jianmin Yang , Jiyong Tan , Dexing Kong

This work addresses the inverse kinematics of serial robots using conformal geometric algebra. Classical approaches include either the use of homogeneous matrices, which entails high computational cost and execution time or the development…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Isiah Zaplana , Hugo Hadfield , Joan Lasenby

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

This paper describes a data-driven framework for approximate global optimization in which precomputed solutions to a sample of problems are retrieved and adapted during online use to solve novel problems. This approach has promise for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Kris Hauser