3 accepted papers
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are one of the major cause of injuries and absenteeism at work. These lead to important cost in the manufacturing industry. Human-robot collaboration can help decreasing this issue by appropriately distributing the tasks and decreasing the workload of the…
Collaborative robots, the so-called cobots, that work together with the human, are becoming more and more popular in the industrial world. An example of an application where these robots are useful is the assembly task. In this case, the human and the robot complement each other. On one side, the hu…
The control of compliant joint manipulators is challenging for two reasons. First, the elastic elements of the compliant actuators can store an important amount of energy that can be potentially dangerous and needs therefore to be controlled. Second, the compliance introduces nonlinearities and unce