This paper refers to the control of the position and contact forces of a compliant rectangular object grasped by a pair of robot fingers for the planar case, using input-output feedback linearization techniques. Point contact with friction is assumed and the linearizing control is designed for the case of controlling the object position and grasping force and then extended to include the constraint forces and the object orientation. In the last case, an appropriate output transformation is proposed to avoid the singularity of the decoupling matrix and apply the method successfully. This work considers the planar case and provides simulation results that confirm the theoretical findings.

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