Recent technological advances in hardware design of the robotic platforms enabled the
implementation of various control modalities for improved interactions with humans and …

Collaborative robotics is an umbrella term that conveys the general idea of proximity
between machines and humans for some useful tasks in a shared space, with a range of …

Pervasiveness of ubiquitous computing advances the manufacturing scheme into a
ubiquitous manufacturing era which poses significant challenges on sensing technology …

Contact force estimation enables robots to physically interact with unknown environments
and to work with human operators in a shared workspace. Most heavy-duty industrial robots …

As industrial robots are applied in manufacturing industry on a large-scale and human
intelligence is regarded as an important part in manufacturing, physical human− robot …

To enhance flexibility and sustainability, human-robot collaboration is becoming a major
feature of next-generation robots. The safety assessment strategy is the first and crucial …

Computing and modifying in real-time the trajectory of an industrial robot involved in a
Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) scenario is a challenging problem, mainly because of …

This paper presents an approach to haptically controlling an industrial robot without using
any external sensors for human-robot collaborative assembly. The sensorless haptic control …

Contact force and torque sensing approaches enable manipulators to cooperate with
humans and to interact appropriately with unexpected collisions. In this paper, a mode …

This article presents a novel model-based sensorless collision detection scheme for human–
robot interaction. In order to recognize external impacts exerted on the manipulator with …