Dynamically Reconfigurable Discrete Distributed Stiffness for Inflated Beam Robots
Brian H. Do,Valory Banashek,Allison M. Okamura,Brian H. Do,Valory Banashek,Allison M. Okamura
Inflated continuum robots are promising for a variety of navigation tasks, but controlling their motion with a small number of actuators is challenging. These inflated beam robots tend to buckle under compressive loads, producing extremely tight local curvature at difficult-to-control buckle point locations. In this paper, we present an inflated beam robot that uses distributed stiffness changing ...
