Concentric Tube Robots: Design, Deployment, and Stability
Concentric tube robots are needle-diameter robots consisting of multiple precurved, nested, superelastic tubes. They can be made to controllably elongate and bend by grasping the tubes at their bases and applying axial rotation and translation to each tube independently. This causes the tubes to ben...
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VANDERBILT
2016
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| Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07202016-210649/ |