Force control enables hands-on teaching and physical collaboration, with the potential to
improve ergonomics and flexibility of automation. Established methods for the design of …

Human-robot collaboration for high-payload industrial applications has the potential to
unlock new applications and improve operator ergonomics. However, ensuring safety with …

Fine assembly tasks, such as electrical connector insertion have tight tolerances and
sensitive components, requiring compensation of alignment errors while applying sufficient …

This study aims to achieve autonomous robotic assembly under uncertain conditions arising
from imprecise goal positioning and variations in the angle of the grasped part. Soft robots …

Soft robotic fingers can improve adaptability in grasping and manipulation, compensating for
geometric variation in object or environmental contact, but today lack force capacity and fine …

The assembly of electrical connectors by space robots is one of the important requirements
for in-orbit service. In this paper, aiming at the difficulty of fine assembly of electrical …