The advances in Robotics in recent decades allow a growing range of robotic manipulator applications in various industry sectors. This directly impacts Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), increasing tasks that require a shared work environment, safety performance, and the contact detection ability of the robotic manipulator. Consequently, control methods capable of predicting contact, and controlling force or trajectory to avoid damage during collisions become increasingly necessary either for safety or performance reasons. Separating the dynamics of a single-link manipulator into two modes, namely position control mode (free mode) and torque control mode (contact mode), the first part of this dissertation deals with the estimation problem of states for active mode detection through the implementation of the Moving Horizon State Estimation with Neural Networks (NNMHSE) method. The effectiveness of the proposed estimation method is evaluated by comparing the states and modes generated by the MHSE and those estimated by the Neural Network. This method showed low RMSE values, high values of R(2), and a reduction in the processing time of the estimation algorithm. The second part of this dissertation deals with the position and force switching problem for a non-linear robotic manipulator, applying Model-Based Predictive Control (MPC). The implemented switched MPC algorithm effectively controlled both modes of the system, presenting low prediction error, approximately 2 percent in position control mode and 0.5 percent in torque control mode, even considering cyclical changes in the modes. Both methods prove to be suitable for controlling co-located robotic manipulators with humans or in unstructured environments through operation mode detection and position-torque switching control.