Touch is currently seen as the modality that will complement audition and vision as a third
media stream over the Internet in a variety of future haptic applications which will allow full …

Complex surfaces are widely used in aerospace, energy, and national defense industries.
As one of the major means of manufacturing such as complex surfaces, the multi-axis …

Thank you for opening the third edition of this monograph. The first edition [202] was
published in 1996 in the Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences series (vol. 220) …

In this paper, a two-layer approach is presented to guarantee the stable behavior of bilateral
telemanipulation systems in the presence of time-varying destabilizing factors such as hard …

Bilateral haptic teleoperation systems allow humans to perform complex tasks in a remote or
inaccessible environment, while providing haptic feedback to the human operator. The …

Proper modelling of contact/impact phenomenon is critical to ensure reliable description of
the overall dynamic behaviors of mechanical systems. The past few decades witnessed …

Flying in unknown environments may lead to unforeseen collisions, which may cause
serious damage to the robot and/or its environment. In this context, fast and robust collision …

Contact mechanics plays an important role in the design, performance analysis, simulation,
and control of legged robots. The Hunt–Crossley model and the Coulomb friction model are …

In recent years, numerous studies have been conducted regarding the modeling of
contact/impact events between smooth contacting surfaces, ie spheres and cylinders …

Corobotics involves humans and robots working collaboratively as a team. This requires
physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) systems that can adapt to the preferences of …