Summary
Arnau is a post-doctoral research associate with the Mechatronics in Medicine (MiM) lab, which is part of the Hamlyn Centre, Imperial College London.
He currently works on the development of soft and continuum robots (snake-robots) for endoluminal surgery. Arnau proposed a new morphing design for a soft robotic manipulator that offers higher force than any competing design, which was patented, see below. He is now working with a team in his lab to further develop this robot concept to eventually commercialise it or license it.
Arnau is interested in the entrepreneurial route to commercialise translational research.
Arnau completed his doctorate between MiM lab, Imperial College London, and Rolls-Royce, which was the industrial sponsor of his project. He explored new robotic manipulators (snake-robots) for in situ inspections of jet engines.
Arnau was also a co-founder and director of Sonobotics.
Arnau received an industrial fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Franco E, Garriga Casanovas A, 2021, Energy shaping control of soft continuum manipulators with in-plane disturbances, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol:40, ISSN:0278-3649, Pages:236-255
Garriga Casanovas A, Rodriguez y Baena F, 2019, Kinematics of continuum robots with constant curvature bending and extension capabilities, Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics-Transactions of the ASME, Vol:11, ISSN:1942-4302
Garriga Casanovas A, Collison I, Rodriguez y Baena F, 2018, Towards a common framework for the design of soft robotic manipulators with fluidic actuation, Soft Robotics, Vol:5, ISSN:2169-5172, Pages:622-649
Garriga Casanovas A, Rodriguez y Baena F, 2018, Complete follow-the-leader kinematics using concentric tube robots, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol:37, ISSN:0278-3649, Pages:197-222
Conference
Treratanakulchai S, Franco E, Garriga Casanovas A, et al., Development of a 6 DOF soft robotic manipulator with integrated sensing Skin, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022), IEEE