ET Arm: Highly Compliant Elephant-Trunk Continuum Manipulator

1. Cieslak, R., Morecki, A.: Elephant trunk type elastic manipulator - a tool for bulk and liquid materials transportation. Robotica (01), 11–16 (1999)

   Google Scholar 

2. Gravagne, I.A., Walker, I.D.: Manipulability, Force, and Compliance Analysis for Planar Continuum Manipulators. IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation 18(3), 263–273 (2002)

   Article  Google Scholar 

3. Hannan, M., Walker, I.D.: Analysis and experiments with an elephant’s trunk robot. Adv. Robot. 15, 847–858 (2001)

   Article  Google Scholar 

4. Tsukagoshi, H., Kitagawa, A., Segawa, M.: Active Hose: an Artificial Elephant’s Nose with Maneuverability for Rescue Operation. In: 2001 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics & Automation, Seoul, Korea, pp. 2454–2459 (May 2001)

   Google Scholar 

5. Buckingham, R., Graham, A.: Snaking around in a nuclear jungle. Industrial Robot: An Int. J. 32(2), 120–127 (2001)

   Google Scholar 

6. Buckingham, R., Chitrakaran, V., Conkie, R., et al.: Snake-arm robots: a new approach to aircraft assembly (2007)

   Google Scholar 

7. Simaan, N., Taylor, R., Flint, P.: A dexterous system for laryngeal surgery. In: IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, LA, USA, pp. 351–357 (April 2004)

   Google Scholar 

8. Xu, K., Simaan, N.: An investigation of the intrinsic force sensing capabilities of continuum robots. IEEE Trans. on Robototics 24(3), 576–587 (2008)

   Article  Google Scholar 

9. McMahan, W., Jones, B., Walker, I., et al.: Robotic Manipulators Inspired by Cephalopod Limbs. In: Inaugural CDEN Design Conf., Montreal, Quebec, Canada, pp. 1–10 (July 2004)

   Google Scholar 

10. Jones, B., Walker, I.D.: Kinematics for Multisection Continuum Robots. IEEE Trans. on Robotics 22(1), 43–57 (2006)

    Article  Google Scholar 

11. Walker, I.D., Dawson, D., Flash, T., et al.: Continuum robot arms inspired by cephalopods, SPIE, vol. 5804, pp. 303–314 (2005)

    Google Scholar 

12. McMahan, W., Chitrakaran, V., Csencsits, M., et al.: Field Trials and Testing of the OctArm Continuum Manipulator. In: IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, Florida, USA, pp. 2336–2341 (May 2006)

    Google Scholar 

13. Kapadia, A., Walker, I.D.: Self-Motion Analysis of Extensible Continuum Manipulators. In: IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 6-10, pp. 1980–1986 (2013)

    Google Scholar 

14. Walker, I.D.: Continuous Backbone “Continuum” Robot Manipulators. SRN Robotics 726506, 19 pages (2013)

    Google Scholar 

15. Neppalli, S., Csencsits, M., Jones, B.: A Geometrical Approach to Inverse Kinematics for Continuum Manipulators. In: IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2008)

    Google Scholar 

16. Li, J., Teng, Z., Xiao, J., et al.: Autonomous Continuum Grasping. In: IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Tokyo, Japan, November 3-7, pp. 4569–4576 (2013)

    Google Scholar 

17. Degani, A., Choset, H., Wolf, A., et al.: Highly Articulated Robotic Probe for Minimally Invasive Surgery. In: IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, Florida, USA, pp. 4167–4172 (May 2006)

    Google Scholar 

18. Webster III, R., Okamura, A., Cowan, N.: Toward Active Cannulas: Miniature Snake-Like Surgical Robots. In: IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, pp. 2857–2863 (October 2006)

    Google Scholar 

19. Rolf, M., Steil, J.: Constant curvature continuum kinematics as fast approximate model for the Bionic Handling Assistant. In: IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, pp. 3440–3446 (October 2012)

    Google Scholar 

20. Deng, T., Wang, H., Chen, W., et al.: Development of a New Cable-driven Soft Robot for Cardiac Ablation. In: IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Biomimetics, Shenzhen, China, pp. 728–733 (December 2013)

    Google Scholar 

Download references