Memory-based SO(3)

6D Compliant Control beyond 180° Rotation

Robot Control & Safety
  • Impedance control
  • Physical HRI

Direction-preserving 6D impedance control maintains the restoring torque direction through large rotations, allowing natural physical interaction beyond a half-turn.

IEEE RA-L · 2026 · Accepted / ICRA · 2022

6D Compliant Control beyond 180° Rotation

Representative Publications

This project includes the ICRA 2022 conference paper and the 2026 journal version accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

Journal version · 2026

Direction-Preserving 6D Impedance Control Using Observer-Based Extended Unit Quaternion

Jinyeong Jeong and Min Jun Kim

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2026, Accepted

Conference version · 2022

A Memory-based SO(3) Parameterization: Theory and Application to 6D Impedance Control with Radially Unbounded Potential Function

Jinyeong Jeong, Hrishik Mishra, Christian Ott, and Min Jun Kim

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022

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