Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics Volume 29 Editors: Bruno Siciliano · Oussama Khatib · Frans Groen Cristian Secchi ž Stefano Stramigioli ž Cesare Fantuzzi Control of Interactive Robotic Interfaces A Port-Hamiltonian Approach With 86 Figures Professor Bruno Siciliano, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universit` degli Studi di Napoli Fedea rico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy, email: siciliano@unina.it Professor Oussama Khatib, Robotics Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9010, USA, email: khatib@cs.stanford.edu Professor Frans Groen, Department of Computer Science, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, email: groen@science.uva.nl Authors Dr Cristian Secchi Prof Dr Cesare Fantuzzi DISMI – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Morselli Building Via G Amendola 42100 Reggio Emilia Italy Prof Dr Stefano Stramigioli Universiteit Twente EL/CE Postbus 217 7500 EAE Enschede The Netherlands S.Stramigioli@ieee.org secchi.christian@unimore.it cesare.fantuzzi@unimore.it ISSN print edition: 1610-7438 ISSN electronic edition: 1610-742X ISBN-10 3-540-49712-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN-13 978-3-540-49712-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2006937681 This work is subject to copyright All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in other ways, and storage in data banks Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer Violations are liable to prosecution under German Copyright Law Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springer.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007 Printed in Germany The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use Typesetting: Digital data supplied by authors Data-conversion and production: PTP-Berlin Protago-TEX-Production GmbH, Germany (www.ptp-berlin.com) Cover-Design: WMXDesign GmbH, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper 89/3141/Yu - Editorial Advisory Board EUROPE Herman Bruyninckx, KU Leuven, Belgium Raja Chatila, LAAS, France Henrik Christensen, KTH, Sweden Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore SantAnna Pisa, Italy Ră diger Dillmann, Universită t Karlsruhe, Germany u a AMERICA Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley, USA John Hollerbach, University of Utah, USA Lydia Kavraki, Rice University, USA Tim Salcudean, University of British Columbia, Canada Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University, USA EUR ON ASIA/OCEANIA Peter Corke, CSIRO, Australia Makoto Kaneko, Hiroshima University, Japan Sukhan Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Yangsheng Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, PRC Shin’ichi Yuta, Tsukuba University, Japan European *** *** STAR (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) has been promoted under the auspices of EURON (European Robotics Research Network) Research Network *** *** ROBOTICS Printing: Krips bv, Meppel Binding: Stürtz, Würzburg ... Springer Science+Business Media springer. com © Springer- Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007 Printed in Germany The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc in this publication... 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer Violations are liable to prosecution under German Copyright Law Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business... University, Korea Yangsheng Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, PRC Shin’ichi Yuta, Tsukuba University, Japan European *** *** STAR (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) has been promoted under