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    • Robotics
    • Human-Computer Interaction
    • Control Systems Engineering

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    • Haptic devices enable physical interaction with virtual environments, but achieving stable and transparent coupling remains challenging.
    • Existing methods struggle with rigid contacts and uncertain dynamics in virtual environments, limiting the range of displayable impedances.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose and analyze two adaptive nonlinear controllers for coupling haptic devices with impedance-type and admittance-type virtual environments.
    • To investigate the transparency and stability of these controllers under uncertain nonlinear dynamics.
    • To optimize controller parameters for balancing impedance reduction and noise amplification.

    Main Methods:

    • Development of two adaptive nonlinear controllers, one for impedance-type and one for admittance-type virtual environments.
    • Lyapunov analysis to ensure system stability with uncertain nonlinear dynamics.
    • Formulation and solution of an optimization problem for filter parameter selection.
    • Experimental comparison with a conventional penalty-based method.

    Main Results:

    • Analytical demonstration that low-pass filtering reduces stability bounds in discrete-time implementations.
    • Optimization successfully balances impedance reduction and noise amplification.
    • Experimental results show superior performance for the admittance-type constraint-based controller, enabling a wider range of stably displayed impedances.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed adaptive nonlinear controllers enhance haptic device interaction with virtual environments.
    • The admittance-type constraint-based controller offers significantly improved performance for rigid virtual environments.
    • Controller design must consider trade-offs between impedance reduction, noise amplification, and stability in discrete-time systems.