Practical kinematics for real-time implementation of continuum robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1840-1847

  Jones, Bryan A ^a   McMahan, William ^b   Walker, Ian D ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired robots; Continuum robot; Tentacle; Trunk

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MANIPULATORS; CONTINUUM ROBOTS; JOINT SPACE; KINEMATIC MODELS;

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 33845645977     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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