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A Self-Decoupling Three-Segment Continuum Flexible Robot Based on Stiffness Difference

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Qiqi Pan
罗静静 (Jingjing Luo)
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Yongfei Feng
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Li Chen
王洪波 (Hongbo Wang) *
DOI:10.1109/TMECH.2024.3454204delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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The coupling effect of the flexible robotic arm with multiple degrees of freedom greatly increases the control complexity. For flexible endoscopic robots that manipulate an endoscope or other necessary channels like gas detection channel, its performance, like adaptability to tortuous paths, simplicity of control, and compactness of size are essential. Currently, there is a tradeoff between multiple-degree of freedom (DOF) and control accuracy of continuum robots. In this article, a self-decoupling continuum robot with multiple stiffness was proposed. Based on the difference in stiffness among segments, the proposed robotic arm can well realize the independent operation of each DOF. Using stiffness analysis and kinematics calculation, the optimal self-decoupling structure model of the robot was determined. With finite element analysis and experimental verification, the control error of the proposed robotic arm is less than 2.5%. The coupling error among segments is less than 6.7%, and the ratio of absolute maximum error to the length of the robotic arm is less than 1.4%.
Keywords:
Robots
Bending
Manipulators
Couplings
Tendons
Kinematics
Image segmentation
Continuum robotic arm
flexible robot
multistiffness
self-decoupling

Journal

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IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
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7.3
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5.4K
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2.4W

Organization

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fudan university
Scholars:
11.6W
Papers: 7.7W
Citations: 121