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Separation of the kinematic and dynamic loops is important for industrial/commercial robotic applications (i.e., for designing kinematic control schemes) and also for simplifying the controller structure, but most visual servoing algorithms in the literature, due to the lack of such separation, are hard to be justified as applied to most industrial/commercial robotic systems with a hidden inner control loop. In this brief, we investigate how passivity and nonlinear feedback are used to realize the objective of separation for visual tracking of robotic systems with parametric uncertainty and with time-varying depth, in the case of no image-space velocity measurement. We propose two new passive image-space observers that rely on the joint reference velocity rather than joint velocity, and based on these observers, we develop two adaptive controllers that do not require the image-space velocity measurement and more …