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The study examines the complexities introduced by redundancy, including the infinite solution manifold and the need for redundancy resolution. It reviews analytic, iterative, data-driven, and hybrid approaches, and evaluates 13 optimization techniques, proposing a novel method reported to be over 200x faster than Particle Swarm Optimization.","Machine Learning and Optimization Techniques for Solving Inverse Kinematics in a 7-DOF Robotic Arm  \nEnoch Adediran  \nSchool of Science, Engineering and Environment University of Salford Manchester, United Kindom  \n[e.m.adediran@edu.salford.ac.uk](e.m.adediran@edu.salford.ac.uk)  \nSalem Ameen  \nSchool of Science, Engineering and Environment University of Salford Manchester, United Kindom[s.a.ameen1@salford.ac.uk](s.a.ameen1@salford.ac.uk)  \nAbstract  \nAs the pace of AI technology continues to accelerate, more tools have become available to researchers to solve longstanding problems, Hybrid approaches available today continue to push the computational limits of efficiency and precision. One of such problems is the inverse kinematics of redundant systems. This paper explores the complexities of a 7 degree of freedom manipulator and explores 13 optimization techniques to solve it. Additionally, a novel approach is proposed to contribute to the field of algorithmic research. This was found to be over 200 times faster than the well-known traditional Particle Swarm Optimization technique. This new method may serve as a new field of search that combines the explorative capabilities of Machine Learning with the exploitative capabilities of numerical methods.  \nI. Introduction  \nA. Motivation  \nThere is no such thing as a free lunch. This is according to Wolpert and Macready [1] who argued that without re-sampling, all optimization methodologies exhibit equiprobable performance averages. The No Free Lunch Theorem of Optimisation (NFLT) opposes the idea of a one-sizefits-all optimisation technique and posits that one method is preferable to another only when tailored to the specific search space. Knowing this, this case study aims to compare and optimize existing numerical methods, heuristic algorithms, and machine learning techniques. The challenge involves solving a 7 degree of freedom (7-DOF) manipulator's Inverse Kinematics (IK) using AI and various  \noptimization methods including a novel technique. However, the same methods may work for other hyper-redundant structures and robotics disciplines.  \nB. Complexities ofIK in 7-DOF  \nSerial manipulators with 6 degrees of freedom are extremely popular since this the minimum required to reach a volume of 3D space from any given orientation. Nonetheless, they tend to run into singularities and are susceptible to gimbal locking. 7-DOF are therefore more attractive since they do not have this problem. In addition, their increase inmanipulability provides more flexibility in joint limits and obstacle avoidance [2] . The global, closed form solution of a 6-DOF is solvable, and has been shown to consist of a set of polynomial equations with a tight upper bound of 16 solutions [3] . However, the extra DOF of the kinematic structure creates an infinite number of joint configurations as a solution manifold in the joint space, leading to the highly researched field of redundancy resolution.  \nThe classic approach to resolving redundancy uses damped least squares, taking the pseudo-inverse of the Jacobian with local null-space optimization. This has been shown to be robust and computationally efficient at the joint velocity level [4] . It resolves redundancy at the velocity, acceleration and torque domain, but not the position domain [5] .  \nMost efforts towards finding a global, closed form solution for redundant problems in the position domain usually involve the use of linearized firstorder instantaneous relations after first mapping from the velocity domain [6], or the utilization of additional position constraints. Several parameterization techniques have been developed including those of the task space [7], joints [8], elbow twist [9], and arm angles [10] . With regards to an  \nanalytical approach, these techniques effectively reduce the DOF and transform the equations into closed forms. 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