"Soft" Continuum Robots - the Interaction of Continuous and Discrete Elements

By Lara S. Cowan, Ian D. Walker. IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 2008

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Kinematics for multisection continuum robots (2006, background): “CONTINUUM robots, in contrast to traditional rigid-link robots, feature a continuous backbone with no joints [24], as illustrated in Fig.”
Statics and Dynamics of Continuum Robots With General Tendon Routing and External Loading (2011, background): “CONTINUUM robots offer a number of potential advantages over traditional rigid link robots in applications that involve reaching through complex trajectories in cluttered environments or where the robot must compliantly contact the environment along its length (see [2]–[5] for reviews).”
Liquid crystal elastomers: an introduction and review of emerging technologies (2018, background): “continuously deformable materials, they effectively have infinite degrees of freedom, making traditional modeling theories poorly applicable [163,176].”
Design, kinematics, and control of a soft spatial fluidic elastomer manipulator (2016, background): “This attribute classifies soft robots as a subclass of continuum robots, as reviewed by Robinson and Davies (1999); however, not all continuum robots are truly soft, and even continuum robots referred to as soft have varying degrees of rigidity.”
Field trials and testing of the OctArm continuum manipulator (2006, background): “* This work was supported in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office through the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, Contract Number N66001-03-C-8043.”