Universal-jointed Tendon-driven Continuum Robot: Design, Kinematic Modeling, and Locomotion in Narrow Tubes

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Tendon-driven Continuum Robots (TDCRs) are promising candidates for applications in confined spaces due to their unique shape, compliance, and miniaturization capability. Non-parallel tendon routing for TDCRs have shown definite advantages including segments with higher degrees of freedom, larger workspace and higher dexterity. However, most works have focused on parallel tendons to achieve constant-curvature shapes, which yields analytically simple kinematics but overly restricts the design pos

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