Title : 
A reach control approach to bumpless transfer of robotic manipulators
         
        
            Author : 
Martino, Matthew ; Broucke, Mireille E.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We present a novel control method based on reach controllers to make the end effector of a robotic manipulator reach and maintain contact with an environment without inducing bouncing or switching between the reach control and force control modalities.
         
        
            Keywords : 
force control; manipulators; bumpless transfer; force control modalities; novel control method; reach control approach; robotic manipulators; Closed loop systems; Force; Manipulators; Switches; Trajectory; Vectors;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Decision and Control (CDC), 2014 IEEE 53rd Annual Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Los Angeles, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4799-7746-8
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CDC.2014.7039354