Continuum robot system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYusuke Niikawa, Tomio Noguchi
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Abstract
The present invention is a continuum robot system including a continuum robot including a bendable body and a base portion at which the bendable body is provided; a support base including a moving stage that supports the continuum robot such that the continuum robot is detachable from and attachable to the moving stage and is movable along a straight line; and an arm that supports the support base and that is turnable about a first shaft. The continuum robot moves along a plane perpendicular to the first shaft when the moving stage with the continuum robot mounted on the moving stage is moved.
Claims15
A continuum robot system comprising:
- a continuum robot that includes a bendable body and a base portion at which the bendable body is provided;
- a moving stage that supports the continuum robot such that the continuum robot is detachable from and attachable to the moving stage and is movable along a straight line;
- a support base that supports the moving stage;
- an arm that supports the support base and that is turnable about a first shaft;
- a controller configured to control a movement of the moving stage and the continuum robot and be connected to both the continuum robot and the support base;
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- a cable configured to connect the continuum robot to the support base electrically,
- wherein the arm is configured to be operated manually by a user to move the support base and the continuum robot integrally,
- wherein the moving stage is configured to move with the continuum robot mounted on the moving stage along a plane perpendicular to the first shaft under a control of the controller, and
- wherein the cable electrically connects the controller to the continuum robot constantly regardless of an attached/detached state of the continuum robot with respect to the moving stage.
A continuum robot system comprising:
- a continuum robot that includes a bendable body and a base portion at which the bendable body is provided;
- a moving stage that supports the continuum robot such that the continuum robot is detachable from and attachable to the moving stage and is movable along a straight line;
- a support base that supports the moving stage;
- an arm that supports the support base and that is turnable about a first shaft;
- a controller configured to control a movement of the moving stage and the continuum robot and be connected to both the continuum robot and the support base;
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- a cable configured to connect the continuum robot to the support base electrically,
- wherein the arm is configured to be operated manually by a user to move the support base and the continuum robot integrally,
- wherein the moving stage is configured to move with the continuum robot mounted on the moving stage along a plane perpendicular to the first shaft under a control of the controller,
- wherein the controller is connected to the continuum robot constantly so that the controller controls the continuum robot regardless of an attached/detached state of the continuum robot with respect to the moving stage, and
- wherein the controller controls the continuum robot via the cable regardless of the attached/detached state of the continuum robot with respect to the moving stage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.