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On the Synthesis of Reactive Collision-Free Whole-Body Robot Motions: A Complementarity-Based Approach

  • Haowen Yao
  • , Riddhiman Laha
  • , Anirban Sinha
  • , Jonas Hall
  • , Luis F.C. Figueredo
  • , Nilanjan Chakraborty
  • , Sami Haddadin
  • Technical University of Munich
  • General Electric
  • Boston University
  • University of Nottingham
  • Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

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Abstract

This paper is about generating motion plans for high degree-of-freedom systems that account for both static and dynamic collisions along the entire body. A particular class of mathematical programs with complementarity constraints become useful in this regard. Optimization-based planners can tackle confined space trajectory planning while being cognizant of robot and (mostly static) obstacle constraints. However, handling moving obstacles is non-trivial in a real-time setting. To this end, we present the FLIQC (Fast LInear Quadratic Complementarity based) motion planner. Our reactive planner employs a novel motion model that captures the entire rigid robot as well as the obstacle geometry and ensures nonpenetration between the surfaces due to the imposed constraint. We perform thorough comparative studies with the state-of-the-art, which demonstrate improved performance. Extensive simulation and hardware experiments validate our claim of generating continuous and real-time motion plans at 1 kHz for modern collaborative robots with constant minimal parameters.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2025
EditorsChristian Ott, Henny Admoni, Sven Behnke, Stjepan Bogdan, Aude Bolopion, Youngjin Choi, Fanny Ficuciello, Nicholas Gans, Clement Gosselin, Kensuke Harada, Erdal Kayacan, H. Jin Kim, Stefan Leutenegger, Zhe Liu, Perla Maiolino, Lino Marques, Takamitsu Matsubara, Anastasia Mavromatti, Mark Minor, Jason O'Kane, Hae Won Park, Hae-Won Park, Ioannis Rekleitis, Federico Renda, Elisa Ricci, Laurel D. Riek, Lorenzo Sabattini, Shaojie Shen, Yu Sun, Pierre-Brice Wieber, Katsu Yamane, Jingjin Yu
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages16147-16154
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9798331541392
DOIs
StatePublished - 2025
Event2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2025 - Atlanta, United States
Duration: May 19 2025May 23 2025

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
ISSN (Print)1050-4729

Conference

Conference2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2025
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta
Period05/19/2505/23/25

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