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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

Unlike discriminative approaches in autonomous driving that predict a fixed set of candidate trajectories of the ego vehicle, generative methods, such as diffusion models, learn the underlying distribution of future motion, enabling more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Liuhan Yin , Runkun Ju , Guodong Guo , Erkang Cheng

Realistic and interactive scene simulation is a key prerequisite for autonomous vehicle (AV) development. In this work, we present SceneDiffuser, a scene-level diffusion prior designed for traffic simulation. It offers a unified framework…

Accurate modeling of robot dynamics is essential for model-based control, yet remains challenging under distributional shifts and real-time constraints. In this work, we formulate system identification as an in-context meta-learning problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Angelo Moroncelli , Matteo Rufolo , Gunes Cagin Aydin , Asad Ali Shahid , Loris Roveda

We present a novel approach for generating motion primitives for kinodynamic motion planning using diffusion models. The motions generated by our approach are adapted to each problem instance by utilizing problem-specific parameters,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Julius Franke , Akmaral Moldagalieva , Pia Hanfeld , Wolfgang Hönig

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

Optimal trajectory design is computationally expensive for nonlinear and high-dimensional dynamical systems. The challenge arises from the non-convex nature of the optimization problem with multiple local optima, which usually requires a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Anjian Li , Zihan Ding , Adji Bousso Dieng , Ryne Beeson

Infrared imaging is essential for autonomous driving and robotic operations as a supportive modality due to its reliable performance in challenging environments. Despite its popularity, the limitations of infrared cameras, such as low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingyuan Li , Zirui Wang , Yang Zou , Zhixin Chen , Jun Ma , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Jinyuan Liu

Learning from a large corpus of data, pre-trained models have achieved impressive progress nowadays. As popular generative pre-training, diffusion models capture both low-level visual knowledge and high-level semantic relations. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Chaofan Ma , Yuhuan Yang , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng 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

Enzymes are biological catalysts that can accelerate chemical reactions compared to uncatalyzed reactions in aqueous environments. Their catalytic efficiency is quantified by the turnover number (kcat), a parameter in enzyme kinetics.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-05 Xiaozhu Yu , Kai Yi , Yu Guang Wang , Yiqing Shen

Recent literature has effectively leveraged diffusion models trained on continuous variables as priors for solving inverse problems. Notably, discrete diffusion models with discrete latent codes have shown strong performance, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Naoki Murata , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Bac Nguyen , Stefano Ermon , Yuki Mitsufuji

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

Disordered metamaterials are promising for programming physical properties across diverse applications, yet their inverse design remains challenging due to the non-intuitive structure-property relationships and large design spaces. Recent…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ziyuan Xie , Weipeng Xu , Dazhi Zhao , Wenchang Zhang , Daoyang Dong , Bingbing Xu , Ning Liu , Sheng Mao , Tianju Xue

Due to the ease of training, ability to scale, and high sample quality, diffusion models (DMs) have become the preferred option for generative modeling, with numerous pre-trained models available for a wide variety of datasets. Containing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Weijian Luo , Tianyang Hu , Shifeng Zhang , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Zhihua Zhang

Redundant manipulators, with their higher Degrees of Freedom (DoFs), offer enhanced kinematic performance and versatility, making them suitable for applications like manufacturing, surgical robotics, and human-robot collaboration. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xudong Mou , Xiaohan Zhang , Tiejun Wang , Tianyu Wo , Cangbai Xu , Ningbo Gu , Rui Wang , Xudong Liu

Neural rendering for interactive applications requires translating geometric and material properties (G-buffer) to photorealistic images with realistic lighting on a frame-by-frame basis. While recent diffusion-based approaches show promise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Ole Beisswenger , Jan-Niklas Dihlmann , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Current robotic pick-and-place policies typically require consistent gripper configurations across training and inference. This constraint imposes high retraining or fine-tuning costs, especially for imitation learning-based approaches,…

Recently it has been shown that using diffusion models for inverse problems can lead to remarkable results. However, these approaches require a closed-form expression of the degradation model and can not support complex degradations. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Di You , Andreas Floros , Pier Luigi Dragotti

Inverse design refers to the problem of optimizing the input of an objective function in order to enact a target outcome. For many real-world engineering problems, the objective function takes the form of a simulator that predicts how the…