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Task-Distribution-Aware Counterweight Synthesis and Constrained Co-Design for Serial Manipulators

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 14, 2026 · UTC

Passive counterweights are simple gravity compensators, but a counterweight selected from a single pose is not generally optimal for the configurations and tasks a manipulator actually executes. This paper develops a task-distribution-aware synthesis framework in which the operating distribution $ρ(q)$ enters the design explicitly. For a counterweight moment $p=m_c r_c$ with gravity torque $-gpφ(q)$, the weighted mean-square residual gravity torque has the closed-form minimizer $p^*=E_ρ[τ_gφ]/(gE_ρ[φ^2])$. If payload gravity torque is affine in payload mass, the optimum is also affine: $p^*(m_

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