A study of the kinemetic modeling was carried out for a novel rigid-flexible hybrid continuum robot driven by tension-torsion synergistic actuation. A kinetostatic model was developed based on the piecewise constant curvature(PCC) framework, which comprehensively considered various loads. To solve the highly nonlinear inverse kinematics, a BP neural network model optimized by the Newton-Raphson based optimizer(NRBO), denoted as NRBO-BP model, was constructed. Experimental results show that the average bending angle errors at the end of the single/dual-segment flexible robots are as 4.2° and 7.1°, respectively. The maximum position error in trajectory tracking based on NRBO-BP model is as 2.5 mm, which verifies the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed methods.
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