Special Issue on
Force Control of Advanced Robotic Systems
Vol.2, No.2/ June 2000
Guest Editors: Urbano Nunes (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
and
Luigi Villani (Universita' degli Studi di
Napoli Federico II, Italy)
PURPOSE: To give an updated overview of research work concerning force control of advanced robotic systems. Both theoretical and practical aspects are addressed. The selection of the contributed papers is aimed to provide a coverage of the relevant problems and applications in the field, ranging from issues related to service robotics to the new challenges of the industrial robotics.
SCOPE: Force control, impedance control, passive control, robotic skill transfer systems, legged robots, multi-arm systems, visual sensing integration, industrial applications.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (tentative):
| 1. Active Suspension Control of Quadruped Walking Robot | |
| K. Yoneda, H. Iiyama, S. Hirose | |
| 2. Impedance Control for Dual-Robot Cooperation | |
| F. Caccavale, Luigi Villani | |
| 3. Force Control with a Kalman Active Observer Applied in a Robotic Skill Transfer System | |
| R. Cortesao, R.Koeppe, U.Nunes, G.Hirzinger | |
| 4. Improved Force Tracking by Visual Servoing with Application to Planar Contour Following | |
| J. Baeten, H.Bruyninckx, J. De Schutter | |
| 5. Intrinsically Passive Control and the IPC-Supervisor Architecture | |
| S. Stramigioli | |
| 6. Triangular Force/Position Control with Application to Robotic Deburring | |
| G. Ferretti, G. Magnani, G. Rocco | |