Learning Stable Normalizing-Flow Control for Robotic Manipulation

Last modified: July 21, 2026

This paper maps the real system X of the manipulator(end-effector) to a simpler spring mass types control system Y.

  • This transformation is given by a learnable invertible flow network.
  • The optimal control $u_y$ is found from the equation an we can get the optimal control for the manipulator state $u_x$ using the inverse jacobian matrix (using the concept of virtual work)
  • They also show safety guarantees in their framework

In Normalizing Flows, complex probability distributions are models are constructed by learning a sequence of convertible and differential neural network transformations that map the simple prior distribution to the required complex ones.

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