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Flexible or continuum robot arms have been studied for the past two decades and these robots are recently emerging in many applications such as surgery, rehabilitation, industry, among many others. For safe operation especially in the surgical areas, active compliance controls such as force or impedance controls for the flexible manipulators are required. Due to several restrictions such as small...
The flexible endoscope has great potential to reach a diseased organ through a natural opening of the human body to perform surgeries without leaving a scar on the body surface. Despite such advances in reaching the diseased organ, using the conventional flexible endoscope to complete surgical procedure is still largely constrained by the limited degree-of-freedoms (DOFs) of endoscopic instruments...
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