Naohiro Nakagawa

Real-Time Shape Estimation of an Elastic Rod Using a Robot Manipulator Equipped with a Sense of Force

This paper proposes a real-time method for estimating the shape of an elastic rod using a robot manipulator equipped with a sense of force. The proposed method does not use optical sensing devices, such as cameras or lasers, but relies only upon the sense of force in the manipulator. In the proposed…