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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

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

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

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…

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 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

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Johannes Tenhumberg , Arman Mielke , Berthold Bäuml

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

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

The inverse kinematics (IK) problem of continuum robots has been investigated in depth in the past decades. Under the constant-curvature bending assumption, closed-form IK solution has been obtained for continuum robots with variable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yifan Wang , Zhonghao Wu , Longfei Wang , Bo Feng , Kai Xu

Inverse kinematics (IK) is central to robot control and motion planning, yet its nonlinear kinematic mapping makes it inherently nonconvex and particularly challenging under complex constraints. We present IKSPARK (Inverse Kinematics using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Liangting Wu , Roberto Tron

We show how to compute globally optimal solutions to inverse kinematics (IK) by formulating the problem as an indefinite quadratically constrained quadratic program. Our approach makes it feasible to solve IK instances of generic redundant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Tomáš Votroubek , Tomáš Kroupa

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

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

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

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

The small size, high dexterity, and intrinsic compliance of continuum robots (CRs) make them well suited for constrained environments. Solving the inverse kinematics (IK), that is finding robot joint configurations that satisfy desired…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Hanna Jiamei Zhang , Matthew Giamou , Filip Marić , Jonathan Kelly , Jessica Burgner-Kahrs

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

This paper investigates a constrained inverse kinematic (IK) problem that seeks a feasible configuration of an articulated robot under various constraints such as joint limits and obstacle collision avoidance. Due to the high-dimensionality…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yu Chen , Yilin Cai , Jinyun Xu , Zhongqiang Ren , Guanya Shi , Howie Choset

A cuspidal robot can move from one inverse kinematics (IK) solution to another without crossing a singularity. Multiple industrial robots are cuspidal. They tend to have a beautiful mechanical design, but they pose path planning challenges.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Alexander J. Elias , John T. Wen
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