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This chapter summarizes the major conclusions of twenty years of research in robot force control, points out remaining problems, and introduces issues that need more attention. By looking at force control from a distance, a lot of common features among different control approaches are revealed; this allows us to put force control into a broader (e.g. differential-geometric) context. The chapter starts with the basics of force control at an introductory level, by focusing at one or two degrees of freedom. Then the problems associated with the extension to the multidimensional case are described in a differential-geometric context. Finally, robustness and adaptive control are discussed.
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De Schutter, J., Bruyninckx, H., Zhu, WH., Spong, M.W. (1998). Force control: A bird's eye view. In: Siciliano, B., Valavanis, K.P. (eds) Control Problems in Robotics and Automation. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 230. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0015073
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