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IKDiffuser: A Generative Inverse Kinematics Solver for Multi-arm Robots via Diffusion Model

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  • Haebom

Author

Zeyu Zhang, Ziyuan Jiao

Outline

In this paper, we present IKDiffuser, a diffusion-based model for solving inverse kinematics (IK) problems for multi-robot arm systems. While existing IK solvers suffer from the problems of slowness, failure-proneness, and lack of solution diversity due to complex self-collisions, coupled joints, and high-dimensional redundancy of degrees of freedom, IKDiffuser learns joint distributions over the configuration space, enabling smooth generalization to multi-robot arm systems with diverse architectures. In addition, it can integrate additional objectives during inference without retraining, providing diversity and adaptability to task-specific requirements. Experimental results on six different multi-robot arm systems demonstrate that IKDiffuser achieves superior solution accuracy, precision, diversity, and computational efficiency compared to existing solvers.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
Provides an efficient method for fast and versatile IK solution generation for multi-robot arm systems.
Excellent generalization performance for multi-robot arm systems of various structures.
Provides flexibility for task-specific requirements by incorporating additional objectives without relearning.
It exhibits superior accuracy, precision, versatility, and computational efficiency compared to existing solvers.
Enhancing the potential of multi-robot arm systems in real-time manipulation tasks.
Limitations:
Generalization performance for systems other than the six presented in the paper should be verified through additional experiments.
The lack of a detailed description of the learning process of the diffusion model may require review for reproducibility.
Additional analysis is needed on the potential performance degradation and stability when applied to actual robotic systems.
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