Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics Volume 29 Editors: Bruno Siciliano · Oussama Khatib · Frans Groen Cristian Secchi Stefano Stramigioli Cesare Fantuzzi Control of Interactive Robotic Interfaces A Port-Hamiltonian Approach With 86 Figures Professor Bruno Siciliano, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universit`a degli Studi di Napoli Fede- 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 vanAmsterdam, 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. 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Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics Volume 29 Editors: Bruno Siciliano · Oussama Khatib · Frans Groen Cristian Secchi Stefano Stramigioli Cesare Fantuzzi Control of Interactive Robotic Interfaces A. 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. Korea Yangsheng Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, PRC Shin’ichi Yuta, Tsukuba University, Japan STAR (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) has been promoted under the auspices of EURON (European Robotics