A new approach to Jacobian formulation for a class of multi-section continuum robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 3268-3273

  Jones, Bryan A ^a   Walker, Ian D ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired robots; Continuum robot; Tentacle; Trunk; Velocity kinematics

Indexed keywords

INVERSE KINEMATICS; MICROACTUATORS; MICROMANIPULATORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED ROBOTS; CONTINUUM ROBOTS; TENTACLES; VELOCITY KINEMATICS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 33846182607     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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