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A physically consistent stiffness formulation for contact-rich manipulation

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The International Journal of Robotics Research

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Abstract

The International Journal of Robotics Research, Volume 45, Issue 8, Page 1285-1299, July 2026.
Ensuring symmetric stiffness in impedance-controlled robots is crucial for physically meaningful and stable interaction in contact-rich manipulation. Conventional approaches neglect the change of basis vectors in curved spaces, leading to an asymmetric ...