4 accepted papers
With the current trend of dwindling life cycle of production, necessity of systems with high-adaptability is on the rise. With their high adaptability and easy maintenance, reconfigurable manipulators are strong candidates to replace conventional non-reconfigurable manipulators in such trend. Howeve
Anthropomorphic arm manipulators usually consist of as a series of revolute joints and links. In this paper, serial-chain manipulators are described by a novel kinematic representation using a series of type R or T joints, which are classified according to relation between a rotational axis and two
Design optimization and fabrication of concentric tube robots are time consuming because of the complexity of their workspaces and the characteristics of the superelastic materials used to make them. This paper presents a procedure for the expeditious design and fabrication of a concentric tube robo…
Shape tracking using a fiber Bragg grating sensor is a promising tool due to its thin, flexible, and weightless nature. Conventional investigations attached optical fibers with a metal rod which limited the curvature due to its stiffness and increased distance between the center of the fiber and tha…