%0 Journal Article %F Chaumette01c %A Chaumette, F. %A Marchand, E. %T A Redundancy-based Iterative Approach for Avoiding Joint Limits: Application to Visual Servoing %J IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation %V 17 %N 5 %P 719-730 %X We propose in this paper new redundancy-based solutions to avoid robot joint limits of a manipulator. We use a control scheme based on the task function approach. We first recall the classical gradient projection approach and we then present a far more efficient method that relies on the iterative computation of motion that does not affect the task achievement and ensures the avoidance problem. We apply this new method in a visual servoing application. We demonstrate the validity of the approach on various real experiments as well as on the control of a virtual humanoid %U http://www.irisa.fr/vista/Papers/2001/IEEE_TRA_chaumette_marchand.pdf %8 October %D 2001