This paper presents a novel connecting plate for achieving flexible connection in soft manipulator. The main material used the is silicone, which functions similarly to bionic oblique muscle (BOM) of an octopus arm and takes over two actuator segments. Each segment consists three chambers, chambers are assembled with via bolts loops be By using instead rigid one, manipulator achieves more dexte...

Mechanical flexibility in robot manipulators is due to compliance at the joints and/or distributed deflection of the links. Dynamic models of the two classes of robots with flexible joints or flexible links are presented, together with control laws addressing the motion tasks of regulation to constant equilibrium states and of asymptotic tracking of output trajectories. Control design for robot...

A computationally efficient recursive algorithm to model flexible manipulators is described in this paper. The dynamic effects, including gyroscopic terms, of the motors at the joints are fully taken into account. Symbolic simplification is used in a newly developed package (FLEXROB), whose performance in detailed reproduction of the dynamic effects due to the interplay between the motors and t...

In robot-assisted teleoperated laparoscopic surgeries, the patient side manipulators are controlled via the master manipulators, operated by the surgeon. The current generation of robots approved for laparoscopic surgery lack haptic feedback. In theory, haptic feedback could enhance the surgical procedures by providing a palpable sense of the environment as a function of surgeon’s hands movemen...

Finding the full load motion for a point-to-point task can maximize the productivity and economic usage of the mobile manipulators. The presented paper proposes a technique to determine the maximum allowable dynamic payload for flexible mobile manipulators along with the obtained optimal trajectories. Non-linear modeling of the mobile robotic manipulators by considering both link and joint flex...