The invention provides an elastic soft
robot kinematical modeling method based on a constant curvature assumption, and belongs to the field of
robot kinematical modeling. According to the method, by means of the Kirchhoff bar theory and the constant curvature assumption, firstly, equations of force, displacement and control quantities corresponding to artificial muscles implanted into a flexible material of an elastic soft
robot are established; then the
actual length of the elastic soft robot at the
working temperature is calculated, and mechanical parameters of the flexible material are usedfor calculation; and finally, the section
inertia moment about a neutral surface is calculated, the curvature
radius and the angle of the elastic soft robot at the
working temperature are calculated,the true shape of the elastic soft robot at the
working temperature is obtained, and kinematical modeling is completed. According to the method, the modeling process is simple and convenient, the influences of elastic deformation of the elastic soft robot are considered, numerical calculation of partial differential equations is not involved, and the relationship between the shape of the elasticsoft robot and the parameters of the
artificial muscle in the elastic soft robot can be rapidly established.