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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 3.
Published in final edited form as: Rep U S. 2010 Dec 3;2010:2325–2332. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5651240

Table 1.

State variables used by Multi-tube and Single-tube models.

State variable Boundary
Coandition
Multi-tube
Model
Single-tube
Model
θi(s), i = 1, …, n Base n -
θ̇j(s), j = 2, …, n Tip n−1 -
m0 (s) ∈ ℝ3 Tip 3 3
n0(s) ∈ ℝ3 Tip 3 3

Total number 2n+5 6