Various Approaches for the Modeling of Flexible Robot Arms

Author(s):  
J. Rauh ◽  
W. Schiehlen
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2000 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 520-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Arteaga ◽  
B. Siciliano

Author(s):  
Peng Qi ◽  
Hongbin Liu ◽  
Lakmal Seneviratne ◽  
Kaspar Althoefer

Flexible robot arms have been developed for various medical and industrial applications because of their compliant structures enabling safe environmental interactions. This paper introduces a novel flexible robot arm comprising a number of elastically deformable planar spring elements arranged in series. The effects of flexure design variations on their layer compliance properties are investigated. Numerical studies of the different layer configurations are presented and finite Element Analysis (FEA) simulation is conducted. Based on the suspended platform’s motion of each planar spring, this paper then provides a new method for kinematic modeling of the proposed robot arm. The approach is based on the concept of simultaneous rotation and the use of Rodrigues’ rotation formula and is applicable to a wide class of continuum-style robot arms. At last, the flexible robot arms respectively integrated with two different types of compliance layers are prototyped. Preliminary test results are reported.


Automatica ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 993-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro De Luca ◽  
Stefano Panzieri

Automatica ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 36 (9) ◽  
pp. 1329-1337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco A. Arteaga

2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (0) ◽  
pp. _202-1_-_202-6_
Author(s):  
Shinken YAMAMOTO ◽  
Takahito SAGANE ◽  
Hiroshi TAJIMA ◽  
Kazuto SETO

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 (0) ◽  
pp. _1A1-F06_1-_1A1-F06_3
Author(s):  
Tetsuhiro WASADA ◽  
Suguru TAKASHIMA

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