Position and force tracking of a two-manipulator system manipulating a flexible beam payload

Discusses the issue of hybrid position and force control of a two-manipulator system manipulating a flexible beam in trajectory tracking. Unlike our previous approach of set-point position control, (Sun and Liu, 1997, and Liu and Sun, 2000), in the trajectory tracking, the system coordinates are hard to regulate to the desired states with non-zero tracking velocities under continuous feedback control. In this study, we design a hybrid position...