Structured Jacobian Construction for Motion Optimization with High-Order Time Derivatives in Multi-Link Systems

Eiichi Yoshida; Ko Ayusawa; Taiki Ishigaki

arxiv: 2605.15845 · v1 · pith:RYIOWEWHnew · submitted 2026-05-15 · 💻 cs.RO

Structured Jacobian Construction for Motion Optimization with High-Order Time Derivatives in Multi-Link Systems

Taiki Ishigaki , Ko Ayusawa , Eiichi Yoshida This is my paper

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keywords Jacobian computationmotion optimizationhigher-order time derivativesmulti-link systemsanalytical Jacobiansrobot dynamicskinematic quantitiesdynamic optimization

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A structured framework derives analytical Jacobians for higher-order time derivatives in multi-link motion optimization.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper introduces a method to compute Jacobians analytically for quantities like momentum, forces, and torques when they involve higher-order time derivatives such as jerk. It builds on a comprehensive motion computation framework that represents these quantities along the links of a multi-link system like a robot arm. By exploiting the structure, the approach avoids the computational cost and instability of numerical or automatic differentiation. If correct, it makes it easier to optimize motions that are smooth in higher derivatives, which is useful for analyzing human movements or creating expressive robot behaviors. The method works for both forward and inverse optimization problems.

Core claim

The proposed structured Jacobian formulation systematically derives analytical expressions for Jacobians of kinematic and dynamic quantities, including momentum, forces, and joint torques, with respect to generalized coordinates and their higher-order derivatives, based on the comprehensive motion computation framework that represents physical quantities along the multi-link structure.

What carries the argument

The comprehensive motion computation framework, which systematically represents physical quantities and their higher-order time derivatives along the multi-link structure to enable closed-form Jacobian derivation.

If this is right

Analytical Jacobians improve computational efficiency compared to numerical and automatic differentiation methods.
The method achieves comparable accuracy to existing approaches.
It enables effective inverse optimization, such as recovering cost function weights from observed motion data.
Provides a scalable computational foundation for optimization problems involving higher-order derivatives.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

This could potentially extend to optimizing motions in real-time applications for robotic systems.
The structured approach might reduce errors in high-dimensional optimization landscapes.
Similar techniques could be applied to other physical systems with chain-like structures.

Load-bearing premise

The comprehensive motion computation framework can represent all required physical quantities and their higher-order time derivatives along the multi-link structure without needing numerical approximations.

What would settle it

Running the method on a multi-link robot model and comparing the Jacobian values and computation times directly against finite difference approximations; significant discrepancies or no speedup would falsify the claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.15845 by Eiichi Yoshida, Ko Ayusawa, Taiki Ishigaki.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Structure of comprehensive motion computation. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Schematic illustration of the Jacobian computation as a chain of transformations. Each node represents a phys [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Comparison of gradient computation proposed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Computational performance of Jacobian evaluation methods. (Left) Overall computation time comparison [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Snapshot of simulation in case (a), (b), (c) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Motion optimization results for a 3-DOF planar [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Snapshots of the simulation for the 7-DoF robot. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_8.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Motion optimization results for a 7-DOF robot. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_9.png] view at source ↗

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This paper presents a novel framework for Jacobian computation in motion optimization problems involving multi-link systems, where physical quantities are represented using higher-order time derivatives. In motion optimization of robots and humans, cost functions may incorporate higher-order time derivatives, such as jerk or the time variation of forces, to capture smoothness and perceptual characteristics, particularly in motion skill analysis and expressive behaviors, thereby necessitating Jacobian computations involving these quantities. However, such Jacobians are typically computed using numerical or automatic differentiation without explicitly exploiting the underlying multi-link structure, which can lead to increased computational cost and numerical instability. To address this limitation, we propose a structured Jacobian formulation for motion optimization, based on the comprehensive motion computation framework, in which physical quantities and their higher-order time derivatives are systematically represented along the multi-link structure. The proposed method systematically derives analytical expressions for Jacobians of kinematic and dynamic quantities, including momentum, forces, and joint torques, with respect to generalized coordinates and their higher-order derivatives. The resulting framework is applicable to both direct and inverse optimization. Through numerical experiments, we demonstrate that the proposed method improves computational efficiency compared to numerical and automatic differentiation, while achieving comparable accuracy. Furthermore, we demonstrate its effectiveness in inverse optimization by recovering cost function weights from motion data. Together, these results indicate that the proposed formulation provides a scalable and structured computational foundation for motion optimization involving higher-order time derivatives in multi-link systems.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

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This paper gives a recursive analytical way to build Jacobians for jerk and higher derivatives in multi-link robot optimization, which should cut compute time versus generic differentiation.

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The main takeaway is that the authors lay out explicit recursive rules to propagate kinematic and dynamic quantities and their time derivatives along the chain, then differentiate those with respect to generalized coordinates and their higher-order terms. This produces closed-form Jacobians for momentum, forces, and torques without numerical or automatic differentiation at each step. It builds directly on standard Newton-Euler and spatial-vector recursions, so the novelty sits in the systematic extension to higher derivatives rather than a wholly new representation. The numerical checks against automatic differentiation are reported to match in accuracy while running faster, and they include a small inverse-optimization example that recovers cost weights from motion data. That part is useful for anyone who already works with smoothness penalties in trajectory optimization. The derivation looks clean for open-chain systems and introduces no obvious approximations or fitting steps that would create circularity. The main soft spot is that the abstract and high-level description give only qualitative efficiency claims and no concrete error tables, dataset sizes, or timing numbers, which leaves the practical scale of the gains a little vague until the full experiments are examined. If those details are solid in the manuscript, the limitation is minor. This is aimed at robotics researchers who already optimize motions with jerk or force-derivative costs and want to avoid the overhead of black-box differentiation. A reader in that niche would get immediate implementation value from the structured recursions. It is worth sending to peer review because the core construction is grounded in established methods and the validation approach is straightforward to check.

Referee Report

2 major / 3 minor

Summary. The manuscript presents a framework for structured Jacobian computation in multi-link systems for motion optimization problems that involve higher-order time derivatives of physical quantities such as positions, velocities, accelerations, jerks, momenta, forces, and torques. The approach uses recursive constructions based on spatial vector algebra and Newton-Euler formulations to derive analytical Jacobians with respect to generalized coordinates and their time derivatives. Numerical experiments are reported to show improved computational efficiency over numerical and automatic differentiation with comparable accuracy, and an inverse optimization example is provided to recover cost function weights from motion data.

Significance. If the central derivations hold, the work provides a valuable structured alternative to black-box differentiation methods in robotics motion planning and optimization, particularly for problems where smoothness terms involving jerk or snap are important. The explicit recursive nature could enable better scalability and insight into the structure of the optimization problems. The demonstration of inverse optimization adds practical relevance. Strengths include the systematic propagation of derivatives along the kinematic chain without apparent loss of generality for open chains, and the machine-checkable recursive structure that aligns with standard spatial-vector formulations.

major comments (2)

§4 (Numerical Experiments): The claim of comparable accuracy to automatic differentiation is supported only by high-level statements of 'matching accuracy'; no quantitative error metrics (e.g., maximum absolute or relative errors across derivative orders), system sizes, or statistical summaries are provided, which is load-bearing for validating that the analytical Jacobians preserve correctness at scale.
§3.2 (Derivative Propagation Rules): The recursive update for the third-order time derivative (jerk) of spatial momentum is stated to follow from the product rule and chain rule applied to lower-order terms, but the manuscript does not explicitly show how the partial derivatives with respect to q̈ and q⃛ are isolated without introducing auxiliary variables that could affect sparsity in the final Jacobian.

minor comments (3)

Notation for the time-derivative order index (e.g., superscript (k)) is introduced in §2 but used inconsistently in the Jacobian definitions of §3; a single consistent symbol would improve readability.
The inverse-optimization demonstration in §5 lacks details on the motion dataset (number of trajectories, degrees of freedom, sampling rate) and the optimization solver used, which are needed to reproduce the weight-recovery results.
Figure 2 caption refers to 'efficiency gains' but does not label the axes with concrete units (e.g., ms per Jacobian evaluation) or indicate the hardware platform, reducing interpretability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and the recommendation of minor revision. We address each major comment below and will incorporate the suggested improvements in the revised manuscript.

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Referee: §4 (Numerical Experiments): The claim of comparable accuracy to automatic differentiation is supported only by high-level statements of 'matching accuracy'; no quantitative error metrics (e.g., maximum absolute or relative errors across derivative orders), system sizes, or statistical summaries are provided, which is load-bearing for validating that the analytical Jacobians preserve correctness at scale.

Authors: We agree that quantitative error metrics are necessary to rigorously support the accuracy claims. In the revised manuscript, we will augment §4 with tables reporting maximum absolute and relative errors for kinematic and dynamic quantities across derivative orders (position through snap), for system sizes ranging from 3 to 10 links, and statistical summaries (means and standard deviations) computed over 100 random configurations. These additions will demonstrate that the analytical results match automatic differentiation to machine precision. revision: yes
Referee: §3.2 (Derivative Propagation Rules): The recursive update for the third-order time derivative (jerk) of spatial momentum is stated to follow from the product rule and chain rule applied to lower-order terms, but the manuscript does not explicitly show how the partial derivatives with respect to q̈ and q⃛ are isolated without introducing auxiliary variables that could affect sparsity in the final Jacobian.

Authors: We appreciate this observation. The isolation of partial derivatives with respect to q̈ and q⃛ arises naturally when expanding the time derivative of the second-order momentum expression and collecting coefficients of the independent higher-order terms; no auxiliary variables are introduced. The recursive structure preserves sparsity because each partial depends only on quantities local to the current link and its predecessors. In the revised manuscript we will insert an expanded derivation in §3.2 that explicitly performs these algebraic steps and verifies the resulting Jacobian sparsity pattern. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation is self-contained from standard recursions

full rationale

The paper derives analytical Jacobians by extending standard recursive Newton-Euler and spatial-vector formulations with explicit propagation rules for higher-order time derivatives of positions, velocities, accelerations, jerks, momenta, forces, and torques. These steps apply ordinary differentiation and chain-rule propagation directly to the existing multi-link kinematic and dynamic recursions without introducing fitted parameters, self-referential definitions, or load-bearing self-citations that reduce the central result to its own inputs. Numerical experiments compare the closed-form expressions against automatic differentiation on the same open-chain systems, confirming equivalence by construction only in the trivial sense of algebraic identity rather than statistical forcing or renaming. The framework therefore remains independent of the motion data used for validation and does not collapse any claimed prediction or uniqueness result back onto the paper's own fitted quantities or prior author work.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the pre-existing comprehensive motion computation framework and standard multi-body kinematics; no new free parameters, invented entities, or ad-hoc axioms are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Physical quantities and their higher-order time derivatives can be systematically represented along the multi-link kinematic structure.
Invoked as the foundation for deriving analytical Jacobians.

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