Traditional rigid robots face significant challenges in congested and tight environments,
including bulky size, maneuverability, and safety limitations. Thus, soft continuum robots …

Imitation Learning (IL), also referred to as Learning from Demonstration (LfD), holds
significant promise for capturing expert motor skills through efficient imitation, facilitating …

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) constitutes one of the most robust methodologies for
constructing efficient cognitive robotic systems. Despite the large body of research works …

Continuum manipulators are a type of robot used for delicate applications, including safe
human-robot interactions. Controlling these manipulators for an accurate trajectory …

This paper presents the design and implementation of a flexible manipulator formed of
connected continuum kinematic modules (CKMs) to ease the fabrication of a continuum …

In this paper, an integrated tracking control approach was developed for a continuum robot
in space capture missions. For the configuration of a three-module cable-driven continuum …

Kinematic modeling is essential for planning and controlling continuum robot motion. The
traditional Denavit Hartenberg (DH) model involves complex matrix multiplication …

Recently, researchers have shown an increased interest in considering plants as a model of
inspiration for designing new robot locomotions. Growing robots, that imitate the biological …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has received increased attention over the past decades with
the potential to noninvasively treat cancer via light exposure. Due to the limited light …

Recently, flexible robots are growing in importance owing to their merits over rigid robots in
maneuverability and safety, which equips them to work in unstructured environments, such …