Hongshuai Liu

Nov 22, 2024 | mdpi.com | Lina Hao |Qiang Cheng |Hongshuai Liu |Ying Zhang

1. IntroductionThe continuum manipulator is a bionic, slender super-redundant manipulator that provides superior reach and dexterity capabilities in cluttered environments. However, because of its high nonlinearity, the precise control of a continuum manipulator still remains a significant challenge. Reinforcement learning is a model-free control method and has been used for the control of continuum manipulators.