7-DOF serial manipulator (rigid)
ADVANTAGES1 · dim 14SolvSRK wins. At the comparison noise level, SolvSRK beats the best baseline by at least 10 percentage points of survival, or by at least 0.05 balanced score when survival is tied. Use SolvSRK for this class of problem. All verdicts →
Euler-Lagrange arm dynamics with PD control; Spong 7-joint planar arm
Problem definition
Canonical benchmark implementation
Canonical RHS excerpt from the registered callable used for this benchmark cell. Expand it to verify the state equations; it is not a standalone runnable fixture.
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def rhs(t: float, y: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
q = y[:n_joints]
dq = y[n_joints:]
M = _mass_matrix(q)
G = _gravity_torque(q)
Cv = _coriolis(q, dq)
tau = Kp * (q_des - q) - Kd * dq # PD torque
ddq = np.linalg.solve(M, tau - G - Cv)
return np.concatenate([dq, ddq])- Parameters
- Kd = [8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2]
- Kp = [80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20]
- n_joints = 7
- q_des = [0.5, -0.4, 0.6, -0.3, 0.4, -0.2, 0.1]
- Initial condition
- y(0) = repeat(0, 14) [shape=(14,)]
- Horizon
- t ∈ [0, 5]
Canonical RHS excerpt captured from the same registered callable used for the published benchmark. Frozen closure values are summarized below; helper imports and solver settings are intentionally omitted.
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Spread: low
Default noise: none
Recommendation snapshot
Clean best: Vern7
Noisy best: SolvSRK
Coverage
14 solver arms · clean + 5 noise levels
Ranked on survival, precision, and speed
Versions & freeze
Methodology →- Freeze
- 2026-08-13
- libsolvsrk
- 2.3.0
- SciPy
- 1.14
- SUNDIALS
- CVODE (bundled backend)
20 seeds/cell default · 14 arms · TRL 4–5 · simulation-lab validated · this page: 7-DOF serial manipulator (rigid) (7-dof-serial-manipulator-rigid)
Governed SolvTune benchmark freeze; per-arm medians only. RHS definitions and raw trial rows are not published.
Self-reported by Resonix Labs · not independently verified
Results matrix
Pick an objective and a noise level to rank all arms on survival, median SCD, median nfev, and median wall time. Medians across seeds.
Objective
Best overall trade-off of survival, precision, and speed.
Noise level
| # | Solver | Survival | SCD | nfev | Wall | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vern7external | 100% | 10.1 | 13,172 | 5.44 s | 0.858 |
| 2 | Vern9external | 100% | 9.6 | 22,066 | 6.36 s | 0.847 |
| 3 | SolvSRK | 100% | 9.4 | 18,155 | 921 ms | 0.844 |
| 4 | SciPy RadauSciPy | 100% | 8.8 | 3,499 | 376 ms | 0.829 |
| 5 | SciPy DOP853SciPy | 100% | 8.1 | 11,738 | 1.02 s | 0.811 |
| 6 | SciPy RK45SciPy | 100% | 8.0 | 12,668 | 1.12 s | 0.808 |
| 7 | CVODE Adamsexternal | 100% | 7.8 | 2,117 | 188 ms | 0.805 |
| 8 | FBDFexternal | 100% | 7.8 | 998 | 5.21 s | 0.805 |
| 9 | SciPy BDFSciPy | 100% | 7.4 | 6,839 | 742 ms | 0.795 |
| 10 | Tsit5external | 100% | 7.2 | 13,146 | 3.18 s | 0.791 |
| 11 | SciPy LSODASciPy | 100% | 7.1 | 3,323 | 275 ms | 0.789 |
| 12 | SciPy RK23SciPy | 100% | 7.1 | 9,038 | 799 ms | 0.788 |
| 13 | CVODE BDFexternal | 100% | 6.9 | 780 | 73 ms | 0.784 |
| 14 | TRBDF2external | 100% | 5.8 | 1,771 | 5.20 s | 0.756 |
At Clean, best balanced arm is Vern7 · SolvSRK survival 100%, SCD 9.4.
Values are medians across seeds, measured by Resonix Labs on Resonix hardware and not independently verified; nfev and wall are on reference lab hardware (indicative). Under injected noise only SolvSRK and the SciPy arms are run. How we measure accuracy → · Verification status →
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Replace the access date. Pin the freeze ID and library versions when comparing against a later export. Cite it as what it is - a self-reported vendor benchmark, not an independently verified result. The note field says so; please keep it.
@misc{resonix_evidence_7_dof_serial_manipulator_rigid_2026,
title = {Resonix Evidence Portal: 7-DOF serial manipulator (rigid)},
author = {{Resonix Labs (Canada) Inc.}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://resonixusa.com/evidence/problems/7-dof-serial-manipulator-rigid}},
note = {Self-reported vendor benchmark; internally generated by Resonix Labs and not independently verified. Accessed YYYY-MM-DD. Freeze 2026-08-13; libsolvsrk 2.3.0; SciPy 1.14.}
}Related
TRL 4–5 · simulation-lab validated · 398 problems · 14 solver arms · clean + 5 noise levels
Freeze: 2026-08-13 · scipy 1.14 · libsolvsrk 2.3.0 · Methodology
Self-reported by Resonix Labs · not independently verified · Verification status