ICRA 2021 Keynote Talk -- Jessica Burgner-Kahrs: I, Continuum Robot

I, Continuum Robot
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
University of Toronto
IEEE ICRA 2021 Keynote Talk
2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Xi'an, China, May 30 - June 5, 2021

[@a_student0]

Thanks for the inspiration and the energy 💚🐛

[@rainnner]

magnificent talk. This talk is kind of my start point for continuum robots.

[@Qaidi_804]

where did you reached for now? I am also looking something to start

[@CyberneticOrganism01]

Not an expert, but I guess one (key?) problem may be how to control many "strings" simultaneously but using only one motor as the source of force or torque. Otherwise the large degrees of freedom would require many micro motors.

[@dowesschule]

Because the motors pull on strings, they don’t need to be inside the arm. If you control many DOFs with one motor, they aren’t really DOFs. Because they can’t move independently. This is what you want though, otherwise you couldn’t control the arm freely.