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Although force control algorithms have been studied for three decades, this technology is not largely exploited in industry yet. The present paper proposes a position-based adaptive force control strategy, that relies on a novel method for the on line estimation of the environment stiffness. The control design is targeted to industrial controller structures and it is theoretically proven to be robust...