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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

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

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

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…

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

Real time calculation of inverse kinematics (IK) with dynamically stable configuration is of high necessity in humanoid robots as they are highly susceptible to lose balance. This paper proposes a methodology to generate joint-space…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-01 S Phaniteja , Parijat Dewangan , Pooja Guhan , Abhishek Sarkar , K Madhava Krishna

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

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

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 (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

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

Robotic tasks, like reaching a pre-grasp configuration, are specified in the end effector space or task space, whereas, robot motion is controlled in joint space. Because of inherent actuation errors in joint space, robots cannot achieve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Anirban Sinha , Nilanjan Chakraborty

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

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

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

In this work, we present a per-instant pose optimization method that can generate configurations that achieve specified pose or motion objectives as best as possible over a sequence of solutions, while also simultaneously avoiding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Daniel Rakita , Haochen Shi , Bilge Mutlu , Michael Gleicher

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

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

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Taisuke Kobayashi , Takanori Jin
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