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Precise manipulation tasks require accurate knowledge of payload inertial parameters. Unfortunately, identifying these parameters for unknown payloads while ensuring that the robotic system satisfies its input and state constraints while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Bohao Zhang , Zichang Zhou , Ram Vasudevan

Ensuring the safe and reliable operation of collaborative robots demands robust sensor diagnostics. This paper introduces a methodology for formulating model-based constraints tailored for sensor diagnostics, featuring analytical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Astha Kukreja

This paper presents a discrete-time nonlinear system identification method while satisfying the stability and safety properties of the system with high probability. An Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) is used with a Gaussian assumption on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Iman Salehi , Tyler Taplin , Ashwin P. Dani

This paper proposes a friction model parameter identification routine that can work with highly nonlinear and chaotic systems. The chosen system for this study is a passively-actuated tilted Furuta pendulum, which is known to have a highly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-07 Ali Wadi , Shayok Mukhopadhyay , Lotfi Romdhane

The problem of estimating the parameters of induction motor models is considered, using the data measured by a circuit breaker equipped with industrial sensors. The measured data pertain to direct-on-line motor startups, during which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Lorenzo Fagiano , Marco Lauricella , Daniele Angelosante , Enrico Ragaini

Differentiable simulation has become a powerful tool for system identification. While prior work has focused on identifying robot properties using robot-specific data or object properties using object-specific data, our approach calibrates…

We propose a novel differentiable physics engine for system identification of complex spring-rod assemblies. Unlike black-box data-driven methods for learning the evolution of a dynamical system \emph{and} its parameters, we modularize the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Kun Wang , Mridul Aanjaneya , Kostas Bekris

Developing dynamic models for tendon-driven continuum robots is challenging due to their nonlinear, high-dimensional, and friction-dominated dynamics. This paper presents a comparative study of data-driven system identification methods,…

Stable dynamical systems are a flexible tool to plan robotic motions in real-time. In the robotic literature, dynamical system motions are typically planned without considering possible limitations in the robot's workspace. This work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Matteo Saveriano , Dongheui Lee

Accurate and rapid detection of gait phases is of utmost importance in achieving optimal performance of powered lower-limb prostheses and exoskeletons. With the increasing versatility and complexity of these robotic systems, there is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Barath Kumar JK , Aswadh Khumar G S

Systems whose movement is highly dissipative provide an opportunity to both identify models easily and quickly optimize motions. Geometric mechanics provides means for reduction of the dynamics by environmental homogeneity, while the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Brian Bittner , Ross L. Hatton , Shai Revzen

Inertial parameters characterise an object's motion under applied forces, and can provide strong priors for planning and control of robotic actions to manipulate the object. However, these parameters are not available a-priori in situations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Nikos Mavrakis , Rustam Stolkin

Accurate system identification is crucial for reducing trajectory drift in bipedal locomotion, particularly in reinforcement learning and model-based control. In this paper, we present a novel control framework that integrates system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Vyacheslav Kovalev , Ekaterina Chaikovskaia , Egor Davydenko , Roman Gorbachev

Knowing the inertia parameters of a grasped object is crucial for dynamics-aware manipulation, especially in space robotics with free-floating bases. This work addresses the problem of estimating the inertia parameters of an unknown target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Akiyoshi Uchida , Antonine Richard , Kentaro Uno , Miguel Olivares-Mendez , Kazuya Yoshida

To operate safely and efficiently alongside human workers, collaborative robots (cobots) require the ability to quickly understand the dynamics of manipulated objects. However, traditional methods for estimating the full set of inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Philippe Nadeau , Matthew Giamou , Jonathan Kelly

Parallel robots (PRs) allow for higher speeds in human-robot collaboration due to their lower moving masses but are more prone to unintended contact. For a safe reaction, knowledge of the location and force of a collision is useful. A novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Aran Mohammad , Moritz Schappler , Tobias Ortmaier

This paper proposes a novel, more computationally efficient method for optimizing robot excitation trajectories for dynamic parameter identification, emphasizing self-collision avoidance. This addresses the system identification challenges…

The identification of a linear system model from data has wide applications in control theory. The existing work that provides finite sample guarantees for linear system identification typically uses data from a single long system…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-09 Lei Xin , Baike She , Qi Dou , George Chiu , Shreyas Sundaram

This paper presents a system identification framework -- inspired by multi-task learning -- to estimate the dynamics of a given number of linear time-invariant (LTI) systems jointly by leveraging structural similarities across the systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Yiting Chen , Ana M. Ospina , Fabio Pasqualetti , Emiliano Dall'Anese

We introduce a new, analytical method for generating whole-body motions for humanoid robots, which approximate the desired Composite Rigid Body (CRB) inertia. Our approach uses a reduced five mass model, where four of the masses are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Grzegorz Ficht , Sven Behnke