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achieved by this controller in compared to a
conventional PID approach. The future work of
the authors will include the implementation of the
proposed approach on the real arm to validate the
performance of this scheme in experimental results.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work is supported by the European Research
Council under EU FP7-ICT projects SAPHARI no.
287513 and WALKMAN no. 611832.
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