Tendon-driven continuum robots with extensible sections—A model-based evaluation of path-following motions

Continuum robots are highly miniaturizable, exhibit non-linear shapes with several curves, and are flexible and compliant. In particular, concentric-tube and tendon-driven continuum robots can be d...

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