MimicIK: Real-Time Generative Inverse Kinematics from Teleoperation with FK Consistency

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15148v2
• Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:15:49 GMT
• Title: MimicIK: Real-Time Generative Inverse Kinematics from Teleoperation with FK Consistency
• Abstract summary: Inverse kinematics (IK) remains a critical bottleneck for real-time robot manipulation.<n>MimicIK is a real-time generative inverse kinematics framework that learns smooth and robust joint-space motion priors from teleoperation demonstrations.<n>MimicIK achieves a mean position error of 4.65 mm, a 10 mm success rate of 92.01%, and a trajectory spike rate of only 7.99%.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Inverse kinematics (IK) remains a critical bottleneck for real-time robot manipulation. Classical numerical solvers achieve high geometric precision but often suffer from discontinuous branch switching and unstable behavior near kinematic singularities during closed-loop deployment. Meanwhile, learned IK approaches frequently struggle to balance spatial accuracy, motion smoothness, and real-time efficiency, particularly when trained on noisy human teleoperation data. We present \textbf{MimicIK}, a real-time generative inverse kinematics framework that learns smooth and robust joint-space motion priors from teleoperation demonstrations through conditional flow matching. Given the current joint configuration and a target end-effector pose, MimicIK predicts continuous delta-joint commands using an efficient two-step iterative refinement process based on a Minimal Iterative Policy (MIP) backbone. To enforce physical consistency, we further introduce an FK consistency loss, a differentiable forward-kinematics regularization that penalizes task-space deviations from the target pose during training. We evaluate MimicIK on a real-world 6-DOF robot dataset containing 8,848 teleoperation demonstrations. MimicIK achieves a mean position error of 4.65 mm, a 10 mm success rate of 92.01\%, and a trajectory spike rate of only 7.99\%. Compared with a UNet diffusion baseline, our method improves both spatial accuracy and motion smoothness while reducing inference latency from 21.66 ms to 6.74 ms. Furthermore, unlike deterministic MLP baselines that catastrophically diverge under out-of-distribution deployment, MimicIK remains stable near singular configurations and enables robust 20 Hz real-time control on deployment hardware.

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