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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg. 2015 Oct 17;11(4):589–602. doi: 10.1007/s11548-015-1310-2

Fig. 6.

Fig. 6

Frame convention of robot. The proximal end of the tendon-driven continuum robot is mechanically grounded on the task space coordinate. The +z-axis is defined as tangent to the base of the robot. Each of the proximal and distal sections of the robot has thirty joint coordinates