2 papers
cs.RO2026
Collision Detection with Analytical Derivatives of Contact Kinematics
Anup Teejo Mathew, Anees Peringal, Daniele Caradonna +2
Differentiable contact kinematics are essential for gradient-based methods in robotics, yet the mapping from robot state to contact distance, location, and normal becomes non-smoot…
cs.RO2024
Analytical Derivatives for Efficient Mechanical Simulations of Hybrid Soft Rigid Robots
Anup Teejo Mathew, Frederic Boyer, Vincent Lebastard +1
Algorithms that use derivatives of governing equations have accelerated rigid robot simulations and improved their accuracy, enabling the modeling of complex, real-world capabiliti…