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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

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

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) 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…

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 is an important and challenging problem in the operation of industrial manipulators. This study proposes a simple inverse kinematics calculation scheme for an industrial serial manipulator. The proposed technique can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ansei Yonezawa , Heisei Yonezawa , Itsuro Kajiwara

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

In robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS), inverse kinematics (IK) must satisfy a remote center of motion (RCM) constraint to prevent tissue damage at the incision point. However, most of existing IK methods do not account for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jacinto Colan , Ana Davila , Yasuhisa Hasegawa

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

We present a novel approach for solving articulated inverse kinematic problems (e.g., character structures) by means of an iterative dual-quaternion and exponentialmapping approach. As dual-quaternions are a break from the norm and offer a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Ben Kenwright

Near kinematic singularities of a serial manipulator, the inverse kinematics (IK) problem becomes ill-conditioned, which poses computational problems for the numerical solution. Computational methods to tackle this issue are based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Andreas Mueller

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

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

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
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