Force control of an industrial PUMA 560 robot under environmental constraints: implementation issues and experimental results

The problems of deformations occurring in a robot working in contact with the environment can be solved by taking into account forces exerted at the end-effector level. A solution to compensate for these deformations by using a force control scheme is given. The results, which are illustrated in the form of graphs, are obtained from experiments on a real robotic setup built around a PUMA 560 robot.<
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