G. Ferretti et al., JOINT STIFFNESS ESTIMATION BASED ON FORCE SENSOR MEASUREMENTS IN INDUSTRIAL MANIPULATORS, Journal of dynamic systems, measurement, and control, 116(1), 1994, pp. 163-167
The problem of estimating the stiffness constants of the joints in ind
ustrial manipulators is addressed in this paper. It is shown that the
model of the robot constrained by a rigid environment yields a simple
relationship between variations of the motor coordinates and the force
s arising at the contact with the environment. By exploiting the measu
rements of the motor positions sensors and of a force sensor located a
t the end effector a method is proposed to simply compute good estimat
es of the stiffness constants. Experiments have been made on the indus
trial robot SMART and the results are given and discussed.