High-Curvature Consecutive Tip Steering of a Soft Growing Robot for Improved Target Reachability

Dong-Geol Lee,Nam Gyun Kim,Jee-Hwan Ryu,Dong-Geol Lee,Nam Gyun Kim,Jee-Hwan Ryu

Over the years, soft growing robots that allow the feeding of new materials at their tips have attracted considerable attention owing to their unique locomotion characteristics. However, accessing targets over highly curved passages by steering compliant continuum bodies remains challenging. To this end, this study proposes a new tip steering mechanism that imparts soft growing robots with consecu...