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: Received: 31 October 2024 / Approved: 31 October 2024 / Online: 1 November 2024 (05:10:00 CET)
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Kim, H. Design and Analysis of Additional Tendon Path for Determining Bending Shape in Hyper-Redundant Manipulator with Rolling Joints. Preprints2024, 2024102576. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.2576.v1
Kim, H. Design and Analysis of Additional Tendon Path for Determining Bending Shape in Hyper-Redundant Manipulator with Rolling Joints. Preprints 2024, 2024102576. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.2576.v1
Kim, H. Design and Analysis of Additional Tendon Path for Determining Bending Shape in Hyper-Redundant Manipulator with Rolling Joints. Preprints2024, 2024102576. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.2576.v1
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Kim, H. (2024). Design and Analysis of Additional Tendon Path for Determining Bending Shape in Hyper-Redundant Manipulator with Rolling Joints. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.2576.v1
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Kim, H. 2024 "Design and Analysis of Additional Tendon Path for Determining Bending Shape in Hyper-Redundant Manipulator with Rolling Joints" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.2576.v1
Abstract
Flexible surgical robots are emerging as advanced tools for minimally invasive surgeries, offering greater versatility compared to traditional rigid robots. Unlike commercial endoscopes, the overtube should remain fixed to maintain stability, ensure a clear field of view, and allow surgical tools to perform tasks efficiently. While constant curvature bending of the overtube is sufficient for some lesions, certain lesions require the overtube to bend into specific shapes to achieve appropriate positioning. Various methods for creating different bending shapes have been proposed in previous research, typically involving connecting multiple segments. However, this approach complicates control and reduces both space and cost efficiency. This study proposed a conceptual method for adding a shaping tendon to control the bending shape and mathematically analyzed the effect of this shaping tendon, inserted along an arbitrary path in addition to the main driving tendons for constant curvature bending, on the bending shape of the hyper-redundant manipulator with rolling joints. The overall system was modeled and analyzed from an energy perspective, and the validity of the proposed mathematical modeling was verified through comparison with results obtained from physical experiments. In addition, it was identified that the design parameter determining the tendon path is significant element in defining bending shape of the overtube.
Keywords
Tendon-driven mechanism; hyper-redundant manipulator; endoscopic surgery robot; minimally invasive surgery
Subject
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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