A Unified Framework for Multi-Contact Path Planning in the Rolling Robot Systems

arXiv:2606.29065v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rolling motion planning is challenging because rolling contact imposes nonholonomic constraints and the configuration evolves on a curved manifold. The problem becomes substantially harder in multi-contact settings, where multiple bodies roll without slip and the contact states are coupled. This paper presents a new framework for multi-contact path planning in spherical rolling robotics under no-slip constraints. We first derive a compact kinematic...