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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

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

Although inverse kinematics of serial manipulators is a well studied problem, challenges still exist in finding smooth feasible solutions that are also collision aware. Furthermore, with collaborative service robots gaining traction,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Salih Marangoz , Rohit Menon , Nils Dengler , Maren Bennewitz

This paper proposes a new, robust method to solve the inverse kinematics (IK) of multi-segment continuum manipulators. Conventional Jacobian-based solvers, especially when initialized from neutral/rest configurations, often exhibit slow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Weiting Feng , Federico Renda , Yunjie Yang , Francesco Giorgio-Serchi

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

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

Several publications are concerned with learning inverse kinematics, however, their evaluation is often limited and none of the proposed methods is of practical relevance for rigid-body kinematics with a known forward model. We argue that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Tim von Oehsen , Alexander Fabisch , Shivesh Kumar , Frank Kirchner

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

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

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

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

Inverse Kinematics (IK) systems are often rigid with respect to their input character, thus requiring user intervention to be adapted to new skeletons. In this paper we aim at creating a flexible, learned IK solver applicable to a wide…

Inverse kinematic (IK) methods recover the parameters of the joints, given the desired position of selected elements in the kinematic chain. While the problem is well-defined and low-dimensional, it has to be solved rapidly, accounting for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Raphael Bensadoun , Shir Gur , Nitsan Blau , Tom Shenkar , Lior Wolf

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

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

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

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

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 introduces the Visual Inverse Kinematics problem (VIK) to fill the gap between robot Inverse Kinematics (IK) and visual servo control. Different from the IK problem, the VIK problem seeks to find robot configurations subject to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Liangting Wu , Roberto Tron

This paper presents an analytical solution to the inverse kinematic problem(IKP) for the seven degree-of-freedom (7-DOF) Moz1 Robot Arm with offsets on wrist. We provide closed-form solutions with the novel arm angle . it allow fully…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ke Chen