Autonomous mobile robots are becoming more prominent in recent time because of their
relevance and applications to the world today. Their ability to navigate in an environment …

Abstract Mobile Robots (MRs) and their applications are undergoing massive development,
requiring a diversity of autonomous or self-directed robots to fulfill numerous objectives and …

Recently, continuum flexible robots have been designed for the use in diverse applications;
including the exploration of confined static and dynamic environments. One of the …

Recently, there has been an increased interest in the deployment of continuum robots in
unstructured and challenging environments. However, the application of the state-of-the-art …

The planning of safe paths is an important issue for autonomous robot systems. The
Probabilistic Foam method (PFM) is a planner that guarantees safe paths bounded by a …

Sophisticated models can accurately describe deformations of continuum robots while being
computationally demanding, which limits their application. Especially when considering …

Purpose This paper aims to introduce an aircraft engine inspection robot (AEIR) which can
go in the internal of the aircraft engine without collision and detect damage for engine …

The contribution of this investigation is to develop a continuum manipulator design with a
two-segment structure design to enable a robot arm to generate a gripper for a target object …

Robotic manipulator path planning is one of the research focus which has very important
sense. As a heuristic A* algorithm, there are often problems which have large rotation …

Continuum robots have been recently used in the inspection of tight and confined spaces.
State-of-the-art motion planning algorithms that are developed for rigid robots could be …