In recent decades, flexible manipulators have been studied by many researchers from
robotics, solid mechanics, and control fields. Flexible manipulators have many advantages …

Flexible robotic manipulators pose various challenges in research as compared to rigid
robotic manipulators, ranging from system design, structural optimization, and construction …

This paper presents a survey in the field of two-link flexible manipulators (TLFMs). Two-link
flexible manipulators are more used in comparison with other types of flexible manipulators …

This paper presents a review of dynamic modeling techniques and various control schemes
to control flexible link manipulators (FLMs) that were studied in recent literature. The …

Over the last few decades, extensive use of flexible manipulators in various robotic
applications has made it as one of the research interests for many scholars over the world …

Flexible link manipulators are mostly prefered in applications where energy consumption
and faster operation are critically important. Since distributed nature of flexibility makes the …

Industrial robot manipulators are general-purpose machines used for industrial automation
in order to increase productivity, flexibility, and product quality. Other reasons for using …

There is a high demand for developing effective controllers to perform fast and accurate
operations for either flexible link manipulators (FLMs) or rigid link manipulators (RLMs) …

This paper presents a linearized dynamic model for multi-link planar flexible manipulators
which can include an arbitrary number of flexible links. The elastic deformation of each link …

A dynamic model of a flexible-arm and flexible-joint manipulator carrying a payload with
rotary inertia is presented. The Lagrangian approach in conjunction with the finite element …