BACKGROUND Humans have a fantastic ability to manipulate objects of various shapes,
sizes, and materials and can control the objects' position in confined spaces with the …

Space-based manipulators have traditionally been tasked with robotic on-orbit servicing or
assembly functions, but active debris removal has become a more urgent application. We …

Capture and removal of space debris are challenging in robotic on-orbit servicing activities.
A large portion of space debris does not possess any graspable features, which makes the …

Human-centered environments provide affordances for and require the use of two-handed,
or bimanual, manipulations. Robots designed to function in, and physically interact with …

In the era of Industry 4.0, collaborative robots have been one of the main pillars enabling
flexible automation. This paper investigates the benefits of integrating a dual-arm …

The motion of a redundant dual-arm robot is subject to dual-arm coordination constraints
when performing a coordination task. However, these constraints are usually fixed. To …

In this paper, a new symmetrical adaptive variable admittance control is proposed for
position/force tracking of dual-arm cooperative manipulators. Thanks to this control …

Over the last decades, the Industrial Automation domain has exhibited an exponential
growth of robots' deployment at factory shop floors. The main objective is to increase …

Surgical instrument sorting tasks are usually performed by medical staff. Because of the
large number and special structure of surgical instruments, the manual processing method …

Human-robot collaboration is an appealing solution to increase the flexibility of production
lines. In this context, we propose a kinematic control strategy for dual-arm robotic platforms …