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Soft Robotic Honeycomb-Velcro Jamming Gripper Design
by Yu Cheng Chung, Wai Tuck Chow and Van Pho Nguyen
Actuators 2024, 13(9), 359; https://doi.org/10.3390/act13090359 - 16 Sep 2024
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Abstract
In this paper, using a honeycomb-velcro structure to generate a novel jamming gripper is explored. Each finger of the gripper consists of multi-layers with a honeycomb sandwich structure acting as a core wrapped by a fabric sheet and sealed by a latex membrane. [...] Read more.
In this paper, using a honeycomb-velcro structure to generate a novel jamming gripper is explored. Each finger of the gripper consists of multi-layers with a honeycomb sandwich structure acting as a core wrapped by a fabric sheet and sealed by a latex membrane. This structure can transit between unjammed (flexible) and jammed (rigid) states thanks to the vacuum pressure. Various materials of honeycomb structure, fabric, and reinforcements are investigated to seek optimal combinations for making the jamming fingers. Then, such fingers are deployed in experiments to evaluate the stiffness and the surface friction with different loads in terms of with or without vacuum. Vacuum pressure boosts the stiffness and friction of all the jamming fingers compared with the without-vacuum case. Attached to a gripper, the jamming finger shows good performance in diverse manipulation with food, a metal component, a toy, a can, and a bottle. Furthermore, the variable-stiffness finger under vacuum pressure can be utilized to perform assembly and installation operations such as pushing a bolt into an aligned hole. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancement in the Design and Control of Robotic Grippers)
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