...Fei Qi; Yiwei Ge; Lu Sun; Xianjun Liu; Hongru Zheng; Weiyue Xu Purpose This paper aims to propose an adsorbable continuum robot for aeroengine blade inspection to improve its structural stiffness and load capacity. Design/methodology/approach A continuum robot composed of a cross-shaped...

...Fei Qi; Dongming Bai; Xiaoming Dou; Heng Zhang; Haishan Pei; Jing Zhu Purpose This paper aims to present a kinematics analysis method and statics based control of the continuum robot with mortise and tenon joints to achieve better control performance of the robot. Design/methodology/approach...

...GuoHua Gao; Pengyu Wang; Hao Wang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a follow-the-leader motion strategy for multi-section continuum robots, which aims to make the robot have the motion ability in a confined environment and avoid a collision. Design/methodology/approach First...

...Azamat Nurlanovich Yeshmukhametov; Koichi Koganezawa; Zholdas Buribayev; Yedilkhan Amirgaliyev; Yoshio Yamamoto Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a novel hybrid pre-tension mechanism for continuum manipulators to prevent wire slack and improve continuum robot payload capacity...

... To obtain the position and pose information of the blades inside the engine, a novel tactile sensor based on electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is developed, which could provide location and direction information when it contacts with an unknown object. In addition, to navigate the continuum robot...