ArticleFrontiers in robotics and AI2026
Development of a tendon-driven serial manipulator for an aquatic autonomous surface vehicle.
Article in Frontiers in robotics and AI, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This paper proposes a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) tendon-driven manipulator to be attached to an aquatic Autonomous Surface Vehicle ASV (MallARD platform is an example). This attachment will expand the ASV's reachable workspace. It also enables the ASV to perform underwater tasks as well as those performed on the water's surface. The MallARD DOFs are invested in reducing the DOFs of the proposed manipulator. The actuators for the proposed manipulator are installed in the base, above the water line. Wires are used to transmit the power to the manipulator's joints. The proposed wire-driven manipulator can work under high radiation, carry a large payload, and be easily isolated from water. The design of the manipulator is described in detail. The inverse kinematics closed-form solution has been derived analytically. A real-world version of the proposed wire-driven manipulator has been successfully manufactured and tested. The experimental setup is constructed utilizing the proposed manipulator. The experimental results display the feasibility of the proposed tendon-driven serial manipulator. They show that the RMS error between the desired and actual values in each joint is less than
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.