ROBOTIS and the Move Up the Stack - 2026-04-20 - Article - An actuator company with deep roots in open robotics is now expressing its stack as a humanoid system.
NeuralActuator: Neural Actuation Modeling for Robot Dynamics and External Force Perception - 2026-07-13 - Research Publication - The authors present NeuralActuator, which jointly predicts (i) a torque surrogate for trajectory propagation on low-cost servo platforms, (ii) external forces with a contact-probability gate for sensorless force… - source: arxiv.org
Explainable Neural Inverse Kinematics for Obstacle-Aware Robotic Manipulation: A Comparative Analysis of IKNet Variants - 2025-12-29 - Research Publication - The study applies explainable neural inverse kinematics to obstacle-aware manipulation on the ROBOTIS OpenManipulator-X. The workflow combines Shapley-value attribution with physics-based obstacle-avoidance evaluation. The… - source: arxiv.org
OpenManipulator-X reinforcement-learning paper combines FTSM control with DDPG - 2025-01-01 - Research Publication - The paper applies reinforcement learning to improve control of the OpenMANIPULATOR-X robot. The method combines fixed-time sliding-mode control with a DDPG agent to reduce position error and chattering. - source: doi.org
Constrained Nonlinear Kaczmarz Projection on Intersections of Manifolds for Coordinated Multi-Robot Mobile Manipulation - 2024-10-29 - Research Publication - The authors propose a two-part method whose first component models constraints as a family of manifolds that can be solved simultaneously. The authors also demonstrate their approach on hardware using three Turtlebot3… - source: arxiv.org
OpenManipulator-X dynamics-control paper compares PD gravity compensation strategies - 2022-03-02 - Research Publication - The paper investigates dynamic control of the 4-DOF OpenMANIPULATOR-X robot arm. The control study compares PD control with gravity compensation and phase-trajectory-length tuning for oscillation damping. - source: doi.org