Continuum Robots for Manipulation Applications: A Survey

This paper presents a literature survey documenting the evolution of continuum robots over the past two decades (1999–present). Attention is paid to bioinspired soft robots with respect to the following three design parameters: structure, materials, and actuation. Using this three-faced prism, we id...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Srikanth Kolachalama, Sridhar Lakshmanan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Robotics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/4187048