Riemannian optimization for distance-geometric inverse kinematics

F Marić, M Giamou, AW Hall… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Solving the inverse kinematics problem is a fundamental challenge in motion planning,
control, and calibration for articulated robots. Kinematic models for these robots are typically …

Convex iteration for distance-geometric inverse kinematics

M Giamou, F Marić, DM Rosen… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Fully automatic tracking of native glenohumeral kinematics from stereo-radiography

W Burton, IR Crespo, T Andreassen, M Pryhoda… - Computers in Biology …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The current work introduces a system for fully automatic tracking of native glenohumeral
kinematics in stereo-radiography sequences. The proposed method first applies …

The hierarchical newton's method for numerically stable prioritized dynamic control

K Pfeiffer, A Escande, P Gergondet… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work links optimization approaches from hierarchical least-squares programming to
instantaneous prioritized whole-body robot control. Concretely, we formulate the hierarchical …

Bridging the Human to Robot Dexterity Gap through Object-Oriented Rewards

I Guzey, Y Dai, G Savva, R Bhirangi, L Pinto - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Training robots directly from human videos is an emerging area in robotics and computer
vision. While there has been notable progress with two-fingered grippers, learning …

Rigid Body Adversarial Attacks

A Ramakrishnan, DIW Levin, A Jacobson - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025‏ - arxiv.org
Due to their performance and simplicity, rigid body simulators are often used in applications
where the objects of interest can considered very stiff. However, no material has infinite …

IKSPARK: An Inverse Kinematics Solver using Semidefinite Relaxation and Rank Minimization

L Wu, R Tron - arxiv preprint arxiv:2403.12235, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Inverse kinematics (IK) is a fundamental problem frequently occurred in robot control and
motion planning. However, the problem is nonconvex because the kinematic map between …

An SDP Optimization Formulation for the Inverse Kinematics Problem

L Wu, R Tron - 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inverse kinematics (IK) is an important problem in robot control and motion planning;
however, the nonlinearity of the map from joint angles to robot configurations makes the …

Semidefinite Relaxations for Geometric Problems in Robotics

MP Giamou - 2023‏ - search.proquest.com
Mobile robots perceive and move through the three-dimensional space of the approximately
Euclidean world we share with them. In order to safely and accurately accomplish their …

Time-optimal path planning of multi-axis cnc processes using variability of orientation

F Wulle, M Richter, C Hinze, A Verl - Procedia CIRP, 2021‏ - Elsevier
In multi-axis processes, such as welding or 3D printing, the determination of the orientation
of the tool relative to the workpiece is usually determined by technology-dependent …