This paper proposes an adaptive fuzzy hybrid force/position control scheme, which can force the end eflector of robot manipukators to follow the contour of an object in lack of knowledge of the exact geomeotric shape. The control objective is to perform hybrid force/position control regardless of the existence of the manapdator dynamics. The control algorithm proposed can adaptively update the position trajectory command as well as fuzzy contml d e s , and consequently, guarantee the global

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... ility and drive the tracking errors to a neighborhood of zero. The present work is applied to the control of a five degreeof-freedom (DOF) articulated robot manipulator. Simulation results show that the proposed contml architecture is featured in fast algorithmic convergence.