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Hauptverfasser: Chen, Yu, Cai, Yilin, Xu, Jinyun, Ren, Zhongqiang, Shi, Guanya, Choset, Howie
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11572
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author Chen, Yu
Cai, Yilin
Xu, Jinyun
Ren, Zhongqiang
Shi, Guanya
Choset, Howie
author_facet Chen, Yu
Cai, Yilin
Xu, Jinyun
Ren, Zhongqiang
Shi, Guanya
Choset, Howie
contents 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 and complex constraints, this problem is often solved numerically via iterative local optimization. Classic local optimization methods take joint angles as the decision variable, which suffers from non-linearity caused by the trigonometric constraints. Recently, distance-based IK methods have been developed as an alternative approach that formulates IK as an optimization over the distances among points attached to the robot and the obstacles. Although distance-based methods have demonstrated unique advantages, they still suffer from low computational efficiency, since these approaches usually ignore the chain structure in the kinematics of serial robots. This paper proposes a new method called propagative distance optimization for constrained inverse kinematics (PDO-IK), which captures and leverages the chain structure in the distance-based formulation and expedites the optimization by computing forward kinematics and the Jacobian propagatively along the kinematic chain. Test results show that PDO-IK runs up to two orders of magnitude faster than the existing distance-based methods under joint limits constraints and obstacle avoidance constraints. It also achieves up to three times higher success rates than the conventional joint-angle-based optimization methods for IK problems. The high runtime efficiency of PDO-IK allows the real-time computation (10$-$1500 Hz) and enables a simulated humanoid robot with 19 degrees of freedom (DoFs) to avoid moving obstacles, which is otherwise hard to achieve with the baselines.
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spellingShingle Propagative Distance Optimization for Constrained Inverse Kinematics
Chen, Yu
Cai, Yilin
Xu, Jinyun
Ren, Zhongqiang
Shi, Guanya
Choset, Howie
Robotics
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 and complex constraints, this problem is often solved numerically via iterative local optimization. Classic local optimization methods take joint angles as the decision variable, which suffers from non-linearity caused by the trigonometric constraints. Recently, distance-based IK methods have been developed as an alternative approach that formulates IK as an optimization over the distances among points attached to the robot and the obstacles. Although distance-based methods have demonstrated unique advantages, they still suffer from low computational efficiency, since these approaches usually ignore the chain structure in the kinematics of serial robots. This paper proposes a new method called propagative distance optimization for constrained inverse kinematics (PDO-IK), which captures and leverages the chain structure in the distance-based formulation and expedites the optimization by computing forward kinematics and the Jacobian propagatively along the kinematic chain. Test results show that PDO-IK runs up to two orders of magnitude faster than the existing distance-based methods under joint limits constraints and obstacle avoidance constraints. It also achieves up to three times higher success rates than the conventional joint-angle-based optimization methods for IK problems. The high runtime efficiency of PDO-IK allows the real-time computation (10$-$1500 Hz) and enables a simulated humanoid robot with 19 degrees of freedom (DoFs) to avoid moving obstacles, which is otherwise hard to achieve with the baselines.
title Propagative Distance Optimization for Constrained Inverse Kinematics
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11572