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TROB
2010
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Design and Control of Concentric-Tube Robots
—A novel approach toward construction of robots is based on a concentric combination of precurved elastic tubes. By rotation and extension of the tubes with respect to each other...
Pierre E. Dupont, Jesse Lock, Brandon Itkowitz, Ev...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Torsional kinematic model for concentric tube robots
— A recent approach to steerable needle design is based on combining pre-curved tubes concentrically. By rotating and extending the tubes with respect to each other, the position...
Pierre E. Dupont, Jesse Lock, Evan Butler
TROB
2010
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A Geometrically Exact Model for Externally Loaded Concentric-Tube Continuum Robots
Continuum robots, which are composed of multiple concentric, precurved elastic tubes, can provide dexterity at diameters equivalent to standard surgical needles. Recent mechanicsba...
D. Caleb Rucker, Bryan A. Jones, Robert J. Webster...