ENDOSCOPIC MANIPULATORS: ENDO-PLATFORM
Current tool
positioning through bending the last 10 cm. of the scope
Endo-platform
provides finer tool positioning: design similar to a tendon driven version
of a "Stewart platform".
Spherical joint,
3-tendon control
Shankar Sastry (sastry@robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu) / September
1996.