Tendon-Driven vs Rod-Driven Continuum Robots: A Bench Test Evaluation
Camille benoist
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Image-based Pose Estimation and Shape Reconstruction for Robot Manipulators and Soft, Continuum Robots via Differentiable Rendering
State estimation from measured data is crucial for robotic applications as autonomous systems rely on sensors to capture the motion and localize in the 3D world. Among sensors that …
Jingpei lu
Modeling and Design of Soft, Positive-Pressure Actuated Suction Cups for Anchoring in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Soft suction cups have been proposed for many applications, including manipulating soft tissues and measuring mechanical properties of the skin. Models that can predict the …
Ayush giri
A 3-D Haptic Trackball Interface for Teleoperating Continuum Robots
Continuum robots offer many advantages for navigation in constrained environments, due to their flexible backbone and ability to conform to complex shapes. However, their …
Mufeng xie
WiForce: Wireless Sensing and Localization of Contact Forces on a Space Continuum
Contact force is a natural way for humans to interact with the physical world around us. However, most of our interactions with the digital world are largely based on a simple …
Agrim gupta
Toward a Robotized Inspection of the Olfactory Epithelium
In vivo inspection of the olfactory epithelium could lead to breakthroughs in neurosciences, but it can not be accessed today as it is located in a highly constrained area of the …
Towards Optical Biopsy of Olfactory Cells using Concentric Tube Robots with Follow-the-Leader Deployment
In this paper, we propose to take advantage of concentric tube robots (CTR) properties to design a robotic system for optical biopsies with fiber-based imaging modalities. …
Combining Tube Design and Simple Kinematic Strategy for Follow-the-Leader Deployment of Concentric Tube Robots
Concentric tube robots show promising performances for many medical applications. A particularly useful but challenging deployment of these robots, called “follow-the-leader” …
Synthesis of a New Concentric Tube Robot for Olfactory Cells Exploration
A Low-Cost Robotic System for the Efficient Visual Inspection of Tunnels
We introduce a low-cost robotic system designed to enable the safe, objective and efficient visual inspection of tunnels. The system captures high resolution images and processes …
Simon stent