Tri-tube Continuum Robot

We introduce a continuum robot based on rack and pinion mechanism. This robot can extend and bend by using motors to move metal tubes instead of rack gears.

Publications

  1. A. Kanada, F. Giardina, T. Howison, T. Mashimo, F, Iida, “Reachability Improvement of a Climbing Robot based on Large Deformations induced by Tri-Tube Soft Actuators,”, Soft Robotics, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 483-494, 2019.

  2. A. Kanada, F. Giardina, T. Howison, T. Mashimo, F, Iida, “Large Deformation Improve Reachability of a Soft Climbing Robot”, IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 2019.

  3. A. Kanada, T. Mashimo, “Mobile Continuum Robot with unlimited section lengths”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 7117-7122, 2018. PDF.

  4. 金田礼人，真下智昭，飯田史也，“柔軟チューブによって駆動するヘビ状ロボットの開発”，日本ロボット学会学術講演会，3D3–05，東京，9月，2019

  5. 金田礼人，真下智昭，“柔軟チューブによって駆動するヘビ状ロボットの開発”，ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演，1P1–K02，広島，6月，2019