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Mechanical Programming of Soft Actuators by Varying Fiber Angle

Fionnuala Connolly, Panagiotis Polygerinos, Conor J. Walsh, Katia Bertoldi

Citations: 500 • 2015

A Geometrically Exact Model for Externally Loaded Concentric-Tube Continuum Robots

D. Caleb Rucker, Bryan A. Jones, Robert J. Webster

Citations: 451 • 2010

Modeling and control of robot manipulators

J.Y. Lew

Citations: 342 • 2002

Concentric Tube Robots: The State of the Art and Future Directions

Hunter B. Gilbert, D. Caleb Rucker, Robert J. Webster

Citations: 197 • 2016

Miniature Pneumatic Curling Rubber Actuator Generating Bidirectional Motion with One Air-Supply Tube

Shuichi Wakimoto, Koichi Suzumori, Keiko Ogura

Citations: 154 • 2011

A Soft Tube-Climbing Robot

Mohit S. Verma, Alar Ainla, Dian Yang, Daniel V. Harburg, George M. Whitesides

Citations: 138 • 2017

Concentric Tube Robots as Steerable Needles: Achieving Follow-the-Leader Deployment

Hunter B. Gilbert, Joseph S. Neimat, Robert J. Webster

Citations: 133 • 2015

"MORITZ" a pipe crawler for tube junctions

A. Zagler, Friedrich Pfeiffer

Citations: 106 • 2004

Design optimization of concentric tube robots based on task and anatomical constraints

Chris Bedell, Jesse Lock, Andrew H. Gosline, Pierre E. Dupont

Citations: 94 • 2011

Nylon-muscle-actuated robotic finger

Lianjun Wu, Mônica Jung de Andrade, Richard S. Rome, Carter S. Haines, Márcio D. Lima, Ray H. Baughman, Yonas Tadesse

Citations: 93 • 2015

Quasistatic modeling of concentric tube robots with external loads

Jesse Lock, Genevieve Laing, Mohsen Mahvash, Pierre E. Dupont

Citations: 89 • 2010

Cavatappi artificial muscles from drawing, twisting, and coiling polymer tubes

Diego R Higueras-Ruiz, Michael W. Shafer, Heidi P. Feigenbaum

Citations: 88 • 2021

Design, Fabrication, and Testing of a Needle-Sized Wrist for Surgical Instruments

Philip J. Swaney, Peter A. York, Hunter B. Gilbert, Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, Robert J. Webster

Citations: 85 • 2016

Highly cross-linked carbon tube aerogels with enhanced elasticity and fatigue resistance

Lei Zhuang, De Lu, Jijun Zhang, Pengfei Guo, Lei Su, Yuanbin Qin, Peng Zhang, Liang Xu, Min Niu, Kang Peng, Hongjie Wang

Citations: 78 • 2023

Elastic Stability of Concentric Tube Robots: A Stability Measure and Design Test

Hunter B. Gilbert, Richard J. Hendrick, Robert J. Webster

Citations: 75 • 2015

Fabrication of wrist-like SMA-based actuator by double smart soft composite casting

Hugo Rodrigue, Wei Wang, Binayak Bhandari, Sung‐Hoon Ahn

Citations: 73 • 2015

Motion planning for concentric tube robots using mechanics-based models

Luis G. Torres, Ron Alterovitz

Citations: 73 • 2011

Friction modeling in concentric tube robots

Jesse Lock, Pierre E. Dupont

Citations: 71 • 2011

Workspace characterization for concentric tube continuum robots

Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, Hunter B. Gilbert, Josephine Granna, Philip J. Swaney, Robert J. Webster

Citations: 65 • 2014

The effect of geometry and material properties on the performance of a small hydraulic McKibben muscle system

Danial Sangian, Sina Naficy, Geoffrey M. Spinks, Bertrand Tondu

Citations: 64 • 2015