Robotic artificial muscles are a subset of artificial muscles that are capable of producing
biologically inspired motions useful for robot systems, ie, large power-to-weight ratios …

Surgical robots have been extensively researched for a wide range of surgical procedures
due to the advantages of improved precision, sensing capabilities, motion scaling, and …

Center-driven planar closed-loop mechanisms have a prospect in robotics yet are not
synthesized easily. This paper generalizes an angulated four-bar linkage for a constant …

In this paper, a fiber-optic directional torsion sensor based on the intensity modulated Lyot
filter is completed to alleviate the crosstalk from ambient temperature and axial strain. The …

This paper presents the development of a fiberoptic rotation sensor for the motion feedback
of a meso-scale shape memory alloy (SMA) torsion actuator for a neurosurgical robot …

This paper presents the conceptualization, mathematical modeling, and experimental
validation of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-conditional, flexible endoscopic robot for …