The many degrees of freedom continuum robots (CRs) enable unique applications in the search and rescue, medical aerospace industries. However, motors required result unwieldy external actuation packs additional weight. Underactuation can achieve any pose with four by locking sections through clutching cables. Existing underactuated (UA) solutions are characterized lengthy joint times, add signi...

Abstract Continuum robots represent an actively developing and fast-growing technology in robotics. To successfully implement control path planning of continuum it is important to develop accurate three-dimensional shape position sensing algorithm. In this paper, we propose algorithm for the reconstruction robot shape. The performed during several steps. Initially, images from two cameras are p...

This paper presents a bio‐inspired wire‐driven multi‐section flexible robot. It is inspired by the snake skeleton and octopus arm muscle arrangements. The robot consists of three sections and each section is made up of several identical vertebras, which are articulated by both spherical joints and a flexible backbone. Each section is driven by two groups of wires, controlling t...