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Authors
Zotovic Ranko; Angel Valera Fernandez; Pedro Jose Garcia Gil; Angel Llosa Guillen

Identifier
10.3182/20060906-3-IT-2910.00064

Index Terms
force control,impact control,impact,supervision,switching,discontinuous control

Abstract
An architecture for force and impact control is proposed. Its objectives are at first to control the robot in free motion until the contact with the environment is made. Next, it should make the transition phase as smooth as possible. Finally, it should switch to force control in order to assure the tracking of the force reference. An absolute priority is to protect the system against the dangerous peaks of force. Also, loss of contact should be avoided when possible. The performance is improved by taking care of the accumulation of elastic energy in the robot. Sampling period is changed depending on the state of the system. An experimental platform was developed in order to test the architecture.

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