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Addressing these challenges is critical for improving compliance, enhancing force control accuracy, and ensuring the safety and performance of HREI systems.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>First, the energy equation of the second-order system is presented, and variable admittance control laws are designed for both free space and constraint space based on the energy equation. Then, a smooth switching method based on selection matrix is developed. Subsequently, the admittance-based overall control system is discussed. Finally, comparative simulations and experiments are conducted to verify the efficacy of the variable admittance control method using the 7-degree-of-freedom (7-DOF) manipulator Panda arm.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Findings<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The simulation and experiment results demonstrate that the proposed variable admittance control method outperforms the traditional method in terms of force overshoot and accuracy.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>This study does not account for the shape of unknown surfaces in the formulation of the variable admittance control law.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>This paper proposes an 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