Continuum robots actuated by tendons are a widely researched robot design offering high
dexterity and large workspaces relative to their volume. Their flexible and compliant …

Parallel Continuum Robots (PCR) have several advantages over classical articulated
robots, notably a large workspace, miniaturization capabilities and safe human-robot …

Grasping objects by continuum arms or fingers is a new field of interest in robotics.
Continuum manipulators have the advantages of high adaptation and compatibility with …

Learning to rank has considered as a promising approach for ranking in information
retrieval. In recent years feature selection for learning to rank introduced as a crucial issue …

Joint level calibration is an integral part of robotics as it directly influences the achievable
accuracy. As opposed to serial robotic arms, continuum robots are not composed of any rigid …

In most environments, solar panels need some cleaning system for dust removal. Recently,
robotic cleaning systems have been introduced and used in power plants. Typically, one …

In this paper, modeling and control of a robotic carrier for the cleaning system of solar power
plants is presented. Since solar panels are placed at natural environments, there is always a …

This paper presents a new modeling approach for continuum robotic arms. A lot of efforts
have been done on modeling statics and dynamics of continuum robots, and two main …

Effective dynamics modeling and control of continuum robots have been a challenge for
almost a couple of decades. The most important modeling challenge is to provide a model …

Accuracy and numerical calculation time are the two main challenges of continuum robots
dynamics modeling. In fact, the numerical calculation times of exact models are so long, that …