Nonlinear Kalman Filtering for Force-Controlled Robot Tasks

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 19, Issue , 2005, Pages 241-265

  Lefebvre, Tine ^a   Bruyninckx, Herman ^a   de Schutter, Joris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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