Flying Elephant Trunk ("会飞的象鼻")

Publication:

Rui Peng, Yu Wang, Minghao Lu, Peng Lu, "A dexterous and compliant aerial continuum manipulator for cluttered and constrained environments,” Nature Communications, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55157-2. (Accepted on December 2, 2024, IF: 14.7)

Bilibili: https://space.bilibili.com/1778365431

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@arclab7795

1. Prerequisites

Ubuntu >= 18.04

ROS >= Melodic

2. Build

Copy the folder "code_availability/kinematics_model" into your ros workspace.

$ catkin_make

$ source devel/setup.bash

$ roslaunch kinematics_model visualize.launch

$ rosrun kinematics_model model_visualization

3. Demo

4. License

The source code of this ROS package is released under GPLv2 license. We only allow it free for academic usage with several patents. For commercial use or cooperation, please contact Dr. Peng Lu [email protected].

For any technical issues, please contact me via email [email protected].

5. Citation