In recent decades, flexible manipulators have been studied by many researchers from
robotics, solid mechanics, and control fields. Flexible manipulators have many advantages …

One of the main restrictions of commercial cobots can be found in their limited payload to
mass ratios. Flexible link manipulators seem to offer interesting advantages over traditional …

Elastic manipulators often result from lightweight construction or safety requirements in
human–robot-collaboration scenarios. In many cases, vibration-dam** becomes …

Resourceful operation and design of robots is key for sustainable industrial automation. This
will be enabled by lightweight design along with time and energy optimal control of robotic …

This paper focusses on the energy-efficient control of a cable-driven robot for tasks that only
require precise positioning at few points in their motion, and where that accuracy can be …

Lightweight robots are playing an ever-increasing role in industrial processes. Therefore
many control methods have been developed to handle occuring vibrations. This paper …

Industry demands for high precision automation equipment led to heavy, stiff and thus
expensive, inefficient, and potentially dangerous serial link manipulators. Industry has been …

Many pick-and-place tasks do not require accurate position tracking throughout the whole
motion, eg (de) palletising. However, most solutions still use a stiff industrial robot with a …

Research on link-elasticities offers the perspective to devise lightweight robots with intrinsic
safety benefits for physical human-robot interaction and fast motions with reduced energy …

Finding natural frequencies and mode shapes for flexible structures can be a challenging
problem. Although well-known approaches exist for single flexible links, the problem …