Open Tentacle

Open Tentacle is an open source robotics project for the design and implementation of a capable but affordable tentacle / continuum robot systems

Goals

Continuum Robots

• Implement / Develop solutions that will allow using jointless continuum limbs for grasping/arm operations and use in locomotion such as walking and climbing

• Explore jointless continummn design solutions that do not require geared joints

• Intragrate camera based control solutions that do not require specialized control hardware such as teach pendants or control gloves

Perhaps along the line of hand/joint tracking such as in MediaPipe

• Explore tendon base haptic feedback wearables for better control feedback

Haptic Technology

ROS

• Potentually develop plug and play wrappers around the software systems

Versions (Both Built and Design versions)

• 0.1.2

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• 0.1.1

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• 0.1.0

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• 0.0.2

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• 0.0.1

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• Initial hydraulic concept:

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