Abstract: Due to their flexibility and cost efficiency, industrial robots are increasingly being used for manufacturing processes. One such process is friction stir welding, which places high demands ...

“War,” the Prussian military thinker Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “is a mere continuation of policy by other means.” If there is one line that virtually every Army officer learns from Clausewitz’s ...

Abstract: Impedance control is one of the fundamental control approaches for contact-rich robotic tasks. However, to apply the impedance control, the robot dynamics needs to be completely known, which ...