A Novel Continuum Robot With Stiffness Variation Capability Using Layer Jamming: Design, Modeling, and Validation

This paper presents a novel continuum robot (OctRobot-I) that has controllable stiffness variation capability in both the transverse and axial directions. Robot design, stiffness variation analysis and experimental testing are discussed in detail. Stiffness models based on the Euler-Bernoulli beam t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yeman Fan, Dikai Liu, Lin Ye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9982593/