Herein, recent advances, current limitations, and open challenges in the design, modeling,
and control of continuum robots are discussed. Thanks to their lean bodies, these robots …

Robots that can easily interact with humans and move through natural environments are
becoming increasingly essential as assistive devices in the home, office and hospital. These …

摘要机器人技术的研究已从传统的工业领域扩展到医疗服务, 教育娱乐, 勘探勘测, 生物工程,
救灾救援等新领域, 并快速发展. 本文简要介绍了工业机器人, 移动机器人, 医疗与康复机器人和 …

Snake robots have advantages of terrain adaptability over wheeled mobile robots and
traditional articulated robot arms because of their limbless thin body structure and high …

Snake Robots is a novel treatment of theoretical and practical topics related to snake robots:
robotic mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes and able to operate in …

This paper proposes and experimentally validates a straight line path following controller for
underwater snake robots in the presence of constant irrotational currents of unknown …

Ice worlds are at the forefront of astrobiological interest because of the evidence of
subsurface oceans. Enceladus in particular is unique among the icy moons because there …

Underactuated robotic systems have become an important research topic aiming at
significant improvement of the behavioural performance and energy efficiency. Adopting …

Every year, especially in urban areas, the population density rises quickly. The effects of
catastrophes (ie, war, earthquake, fire, tsunami) on people are therefore significant and …

Increasing efficiency by improving locomotion methods is a key issue for underwater robots.
Moreover, a number of different control design challenges must be solved to realize …