Continuum Robot Shape Estimation

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  1. Magnetic based In-situ Self 3D Pose Estimation for a Modular Soft Tendon-Driven Continuum Robot via IMU-Fusion

    Sep 30, 2026Zheng Cao, Guo Ning Sue, Xiangyun Bu +3Continuum Robot ControlRobot State Estimation

    Carnegie Mellon University

  2. Reduced Cartesian Kinetostatics for Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots: Residual-Stabilized Full-Shape Propagation

    Sep 24, 2026Ke Wu, Fangju Yang, Xiaohui Zhang +3Continuum Robot Shape EstimationContinuum Robot Control

  3. Estimation and Control of Tensegrity Manipulator Kinematics based on Strut Inclination Angles

    Sep 21, 2026Tufail Ahmad Bhat, Shuhei IkemotoRobotic ControlTensegrity Robotics

    Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

  4. Tendon-Driven Continuum Robot with Modular Stiffness and In-Situ Self Pose Estimation

    Sep 14, 2026Guo Ning Sue, Zheng Cao, Junzhe Hu +5Modular RoboticsRobotics

    Carnegie Mellon University

  5. Constraint-Aware Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Static Shape Estimation of Co-Manipulative Continuum Robots

    Aug 26, 2026Rana Danesh, Pari Qarehdaghi, Farrokh Janabi-SharifiContinuum Robot Shape EstimationDeformable Shape Reconstruction

  6. Capstan-driven Continuum Surgical Robot: Design, Modeling, and Perception

    Aug 13, 2026Gang Zhang, Yufu Qiu, Junyan Yan +3Continuum Robot ControlRobot State Estimation

    Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering and T Stone Robotics Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China · state Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China +1

  7. Sliding Sensors: Configurable Confidence in State Estimation for Continuum Robots

    Aug 5, 2026Ella Walsh, Spencer Teetaert, Eric Diller +2RoboticsRobot State Estimation

    University of Toronto Robotics Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

  8. Multi-Contact Force Estimation for Continuum Robots via Gaussian-Parameterized Factor Graphs

    Jun 28, 2026Aditya Prakash, Panagiotis TsiotrasContact Force EstimationRobot State Estimation

    School of Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, USA

  9. Shape Sensing of Continuum Robots using Direct Laser Writing

    Jun 17, 2026Amber K. Rothe, Nidhi Malhotra, Jaydev P. DesaiContinuum Robot ControlContinuum Robot Shape Estimation

    Medical Robotics and Automation (RoboMed) Laboratory, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

  10. Continuum Robot Modeling with Action Conditioned Flow Matching

    May 9, 2026Jiong Lin, Jinchen Ruan, Hod Lipson3D Shape GenerationPoint Cloud Generation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

  11. Factor Graph-Based Shape Estimation for Continuum Robots via Magnus Expansion

    Apr 17, 2026Lorenzo Ticozzi, Patricio A. Vela, Panagiotis TsiotrasFactor Graph OptimizationRobotics

    School of Aerospace Engineering · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  12. ACCURATE: Arbitrary-shaped Continuum Reconstruction Under Robust Adaptive Two-view Estimation

    Mar 8, 2026Yaozhi Zhang, Shun Yu, Yugang Zhang +13D ReconstructionContinuum Robot Shape Estimation

    Global Institute of Future Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  13. Cable-driven Continuum Robotics: Proprioception via Proximal-integrated Force Sensing

    Mar 8, 2026Gang Zhang, Junyan Yan, Jibiao Chen +1Contact Force EstimationContinuum Robot Shape Estimation

    Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering and T Stone Robotics Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · Curve Robotics Limited, Hong Kong · Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering and Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center, Hong Kong

  14. Shape-Interpretable Visual Self-Modeling Enables Geometry-Aware Continuum Robot Control

    Mar 2, 2026Peng Yu, Xin Wang, Ning TanContinuum Robot ControlVision-Based Robot Control

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China.

  15. Evaluating Accuracy of Vine Robot Shape Sensing with Distributed Inertial Measurement Units

    Feb 27, 2026Alexis E. Laudenslager, Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Nathaniel Hanson +1Continuum Robot Shape EstimationRobot State Estimation

    Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. · Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA

  16. Performance and Experimental Analysis of Strain-based Models for Continuum Robots

    Feb 26, 2026Annika Delucchi, Vincenzo Di Paola, Andreas Müller +1Continuum Robot Shape EstimationRobotics

    Department of Mechanical, Energy, Management and Transportation Engineering (DIME), University of Genova, Italy · Institute of Robotics, Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz, Austria