Easy-to-use collaborative robotics solutions, where human workers and robots share their
skills, are entering the market, thus becoming the new frontier in industrial robotics. They …

Currently, a large number of industrial robots have been deployed to replace or assist
humans to perform various repetitive and dangerous manufacturing tasks. However, based …

After many years of rigid conventional procedures of production, industrial manufacturing is
going through a process of change toward flexible and intelligent manufacturing, the so …

A broad spectrum of issues have to be addressed in order to tackle the problem of a safe
and dependable physical Human–Robot Interaction (pHRI). In the immediate future, metrics …

The importance of robots for industry, research, education, and society as a whole is steadily
increasing as reflected by the number of available systems and installed robots, not only in …

This paper describes a general passivity-based framework for the control of flexible joint
robots. Recent results on torque, position, as well as impedance control of flexible joint …

A robot manipulator sharing its workspace with humans should be able to quickly detect
collisions and safely react for limiting injuries due to physical contacts. In the absence of …

This article considered the problem of designing joint-actuation mechanisms that can allow
fast and accurate operation of a robot arm, while guaranteeing a suitably limited level of …

This paper is concerned with the design and control of actuators for machines and robots
physically interacting with humans, implementing criteria established in our previous work …

In recent years, many successful robotic manipulator designs have been introduced.
However, there remains the challenge of designing a manipulator that possesses the …