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PlaCo: a QP-based robot planning and control framework

Published: November 8, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2511.06141v1

By: Marc Duclusaud , Grégoire Passault , Vincent Padois and more

Potential Business Impact:

Helps robots plan and move smoothly.

Business Areas:
Robotics Hardware, Science and Engineering, Software

This article introduces PlaCo, a software framework designed to simplify the formulation and solution of Quadratic Programming (QP)-based planning and control problems for robotic systems. PlaCo provides a high-level interface that abstracts away the low-level mathematical formulation of QP problems, allowing users to specify tasks and constraints in a modular and intuitive manner. The framework supports both Python bindings for rapid prototyping and a C++ implementation for real-time performance.

Page Count
11 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Robotics