On the motion/stiffness decoupling property of articulated soft robots with application to model-free torque iterative learning control

This article tackles the problem of controlling articulated soft robots (ASRs), i.e., robots with either fixed or variable elasticity lumped at the joints. Classic control schemes rely on high-auth...

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