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Recent work has demonstrated the potential of diffusion models in robot bimanual skill learning. However, existing methods ignore the learning of posture-dependent task features, which are crucial for adapting dual-arm configurations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhuo Li , Junjia Liu , Dianxi Li , Tao Teng , Miao Li , Sylvain Calinon , Darwin Caldwell , Fei Chen

We study an inverse problem of the stochastic optimal control of general diffusions with performance index having the quadratic penalty term of the control process. Under mild conditions on the system dynamics, the cost functions, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Yumiharu Nakano

This paper presents a novel approach using sensitivity analysis for generalizing Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) to systems characterized by implicit dynamics, such as those modelled via inverse dynamics and variational or implicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Iordanis Chatzinikolaidis , Zhibin Li

In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for learning robot control in contact-rich tasks such as wiping, by developing Diffusion Contact Model (DCM). Previous methods of learning such tasks relied on impedance control with time-varying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Masashi Okada , Mayumi Komatsu , Tadahiro Taniguchi

Contact-based estimation of object pose is challenging due to discontinuities and ambiguous observations that can correspond to multiple possible system states. This multimodality makes it difficult to efficiently sample valid hypotheses…

Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) is one of the indirect methods for solving an optimal control problem. Several extensions to DDP have been proposed to add stagewise state and control constraints, which can mainly be classified as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Siddharth Prabhu , Srinivas Rangarajan , Mayuresh Kothare

An algorithm is proposed for finding numerical solutions of a kinetic equation that describes an infinite system of point articles placed in $\mathbb{R}^d (d \geq 1)$. The particles perform random jumps with pair wise repulsion, in the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-08-03 Igor Omelyan , Yuri Kozitsky , Krzysztof Pilorz

Real-time humanoid teleoperation requires inverse kinematics (IK) solvers that are both responsive and constraint-safe under kinematic redundancy and self-collision constraints. While differential IK enables efficient online retargeting,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Junheng Li , Lizhi Yang , Aaron D. Ames

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

Inverse problems have many applications in science and engineering. In Computer vision, several image restoration tasks such as inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution can be formally modeled as inverse problems. Recently, methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sai Bharath Chandra Gutha , Ricardo Vinuesa , Hossein Azizpour

Soft robots are interesting examples of hyper-redundancy in robotics, however, the nonlinear continuous dynamics of these robots and the use of hyper-elastic and visco-elastic materials makes modeling of these robots more complicated. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Mahboubeh Keyvanara , Arman Goshtasbi , Irene A. Kuling

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

A prioritized inverse kinematics (PIK) solution can be considered as a (regulation or output tracking) control law of a dynamical system with prioritized multiple outputs. We propose a method that guarantees that a joint trajectory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Sang-ik An , Dongheui Lee

Stochastic human motion prediction aims to forecast multiple plausible future motions given a single pose sequence from the past. Most previous works focus on designing elaborate losses to improve the accuracy, while the diversity is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Dong Wei , Huaijiang Sun , Bin Li , Jianfeng Lu , Weiqing Li , Xiaoning Sun , Shengxiang Hu

We study the inverse problem of deducing the dynamical characteristics (such as the potential field) of large systems from kinematic observations. We show that, for a class of steady-state systems, the solution is unique even with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-14 Mikko Kaasalainen

This paper revisits the numerical inverse kinematics (IK) problem, leveraging modern computational resources and refining the seed selection process to develop a solver that is competitive with analytical-based methods. The proposed seed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Xinyi Yuan , Weiwei Wan , Kensuke Harada

In order to enable on-purpose robotic impact tasks, predicting joint-velocity jumps is essential to enforce controller feasibility and hardware integrity. We observe a considerable prediction error of a commonly-used approach in robotics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yuquan Wang , Niels Dehio , Abderrahmane Kheddar

Reasoning about the trajectories of multiple, interacting objects is integral to physical reasoning tasks in machine learning. This involves conditions imposed on the objects at different time steps, for instance initial states or desired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Moritz Lange , Raphael C. Engelhardt , Wolfgang Konen , Andrew Melnik , Laurenz Wiskott

Existing diffusion-based methods for inverse problems sample from the posterior using score functions and accept the generated random samples as solutions. In applications that posterior mean is preferred, we have to generate multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhipeng Xue , Penghao Cai , Xiaojun Yuan , Xiqi Gao

Denoising diffusion models are a powerful type of generative models used to capture complex distributions of real-world signals. However, their applicability is limited to scenarios where training samples are readily available, which is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ayush Tewari , Tianwei Yin , George Cazenavette , Semon Rezchikov , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Frédo Durand , William T. Freeman , Vincent Sitzmann