Kayode Sonaike

Exploiting the Morphology of a Shape Memory Spring as the Active Backbone of a Highly Dexterous Tendril Robot (ATBR)

Tendrils are common stable structures in nature and are used for sensing, actuation, and geometrical stiffness modulation. In this paper, for the first time we exploit the helical geometry of a shape memory alloy (SMA) tendril as a simple to fabricate highly dexterous robotic continuum tentacle that…