Electromagnetic Positioning for Tip Tracking and Shape Sensing of Flexible Robots

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4565-4575

  Song, Shuang ^a   Li, Zheng ^b   Yu, Haoyong ^a   Ren, Hongliang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bezier Curve; Electromagnetic Tracking; Shape Sensing; Wire Driven Flexible Robot

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT TRACKING; FLEXIBLE MANIPULATORS; KINEMATICS; ROBOTS; WIRE;

BEZIER CURVE; DIRECTIONAL INFORMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKING; FLEXIBLE ROBOTS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SHAPE SENSING;

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EID: 84934323871     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2424228     Document Type: Article

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