3 accepted papers
The use of untethered miniature swimmers is a promising trend, especially in biomedical applications. These swimmers are often operated remotely using a magnetic field commonly generated using fixed coils that can suffer from a lack of compactness and heating issues. The analysis of the swimming cap
Tensegrity mechanisms can offer key features such as compliance and deployability for high compactness. The absence of systematic design methods has however strongly limited their development for manipulation up to now. In this letter, we consider how tensegrity mechanisms can be designed to respect
Robotization of medical acts often requires the evaluation of contacts between a robotic system and a patient, for safety or efficiency reasons. When contact occurs with a stiff environment, instabilities and vibrations can appear and a passive compliance is therefore needed. In this paper, we propo…