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This paper reveals the essential equivalence of second order impedance control and proportional gain explicit force control with feedforward. This is first done analytically by reviewing each control method and showing how they mathematically correspond. For stiff environments the correspondence is exact. However, even for softer environments similar response of the system is indicated. Next, the results of an implementation of these control schemes on the CMU DD Arm II are presented, confirming the predictions of the analysis. These results experimentally demonstrate that proportional gain force control and impedance control, with and without dynamics compensation, have equivalent response to commanded force trajectories.
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This work was completed while the author was a member of the Department of Physics, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213
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Volpe, R., Khosla, P. (1993). The equivalence of second order impedance control and proportional gain explicit force control: Theory and experiments. In: Chatila, R., Hirzinger, G. (eds) Experimental Robotics II. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 190. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0036127
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