ArticleIEEE robotics and automation letters2026
Friction Modeling of Tendon-driven Continuum Robots through Linear Complementarity Problem.
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Tendon-driven continuum robots (TDCR) are widely used in medical interventions due to their inherent dexterity and compliance. However, precise motion planning and control of these robots remain challenging, largely because existing models do not accurately capture tendon frictional hysteresis. Predicting this friction-induced hysteresis has been recognized as an open problem due to the complex physics of tendon-disk interactions. In this letter, we propose a novel friction modeling approach for TDCR by incorporating the Capstan friction model as a set of complementarity constraints. Unlike conventional approaches that only predict the bounding effect of sliding friction, the proposed model captures the continuous change in tendon-disk friction forces and the transition between tendon sticking and sliding, thereby enabling the prediction of friction-induced hysteresis. The friction model is further formulated as the complementarity problem for convenient numerical implementation. We experimentally validated our approach on a simplified TDCR prototype and demonstrated a reduction of tip position error from 36.11 mm in conventional sliding friction models to 9.42 mm for a 402-mm-long robot. The source code is available at https://github.com/Jia0Shen/Friction-TDCR-Tension.
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