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Displacement-Actuated Continuum Robots: A Joint Space Abstraction
Reinhard M. Grassmann, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
The displacement-actuated continuum robot as an abstraction has been shown as a key abstraction to significantly simplify and improve approaches due to its relation to the Clarke t…
Clarke Coordinates Are Generalized Improved State Parametrization for Continuum Robots
Reinhard M. Grassmann, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
In this letter, we demonstrate that previously proposed improved state parameterizations for soft and continuum robots are specific cases of Clarke coordinates. By explicitly deriv…
Toward Dynamic Control of Tendon-driven Continuum Robots using Clarke Transform
Christian Muhmann, Reinhard M. Grassmann, Max Bartholdt +1
In this paper, we propose a dynamic model and control framework for tendon-driven continuum robots (TDCRs) with multiple segments and an arbitrary number of tendons per segment. Ou…
Clarke Transform and Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Arbitrary Joints Locations in Displacement-Actuated Continuum Robots
Reinhard M. Grassmann, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
In this paper, we consider an arbitrary number of joints and their arbitrary joint locations along the center line of a displacement-actuated continuum robot. To achieve this, we r…
Using Clarke Transform to Create a Framework on the Manifold: From Sampling via Trajectory Generation to Control
Reinhard M. Grassmann, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
We present a framework based on Clarke coordinates for spatial displacement-actuated continuum robots with an arbitrary number of joints. This framework consists of three modular c…
Clarke Transform -- A Fundamental Tool for Continuum Robotics
Reinhard Grassmann, Anastasiia Senyk, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
This article introduces the Clarke transform and Clarke coordinates, which present a solution to the disengagement of an arbitrary number of coupled displacement actuation of conti…
Clarke Transform and Clarke Coordinates -- A New Kid on the Block for State Representation of Continuum Robots
Reinhard M. Grassmann, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
For almost all tendon-driven continuum robots, a segment is actuated by three or four tendons constrained by its mechanical design. For both cases, methods to account for the const…
On the Disentanglement of Tube Inequalities in Concentric Tube Continuum Robots
Reinhard M. Grassmann, Anastasiia Senyk, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
Concentric tube continuum robots utilize nested tubes, which are subject to a set of inequalities. Current approaches to account for inequalities rely on branching methods such as…
Open Continuum Robotics -- One Actuation Module to Create them All
Reinhard M. Grassmann, Chengnan Shentu, Taqi Hamoda +2
Experiments on physical continuum robot are the gold standard for evaluations. Currently, as no commercial continuum robot platform is available, a large variety of early-stage pro…