... 05 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Grippers Robotics Path planning Handling This paper studies using a mobile manipulator to manipulate objects beyond the robot’s maximum payload. Figure 1 exemplifies how...

...Jianghong Zhao; Xin Li Purpose Vortex grippers use tangential nozzles to form vortex flow and are able to grip a workpiece without any physical contact, thus avoiding any unintentional workpiece damage. This study aims to use experimental and theoretical methods to investigate the effects...

...Dong Liu; Minghao Wang; Naiyu Fang; Ming Cong; Yu Du Purpose Varied shapes and sizes of different products with irregular rough surface and fragile properties give a challenge to traditional contact gripping. Single Bernoulli grippers are not suited to handle fragile objects as the impact...

... products on the double-curved surface of a flexible modular gripper used for laying the fabric. The technique implements a simple and practical image processing solution using a sequence of pixel-wise binary masks on an industrial scale setup; it bridges the gap between laboratory experiments and real...

... the control and maintenance is very difficult, as there are a number of joint variables and parameters. It seems that there is no compliance in the simple two-fingered gripper. But combined with some compliance-based method, it can achieve some high-precision manipulation tasks, such as peg-hole insertion...

... portion of lace‐web onto the cutting table. In order to describe these material handling operations sequences, Figure 9 shows a plan view of the material handling system. The figure illustrates the position of the moving gripper at four different positions along the linear slide: HOME, A, B and C...

...Andrzej Grzesiak; Ralf Becker; Alexander Verl Purpose This review will describe the development of the Bionic Handling Assistant as well as the additive manufacturing (AM) process of robot grippers and its possibilities. Design/methodology/approach AM offers the chance to use the additive...

...Greg Causey This paper describes guidelines for the design of grippers for use in modular manufacturing workcells. Gripper design is an important and often overlooked aspect of the design of a complete assembly system. Here, guidelines are presented which can be applied to a wide variety...

... of grasps being dictated by the shape of the part, stability, and task requirements. Lee and Cutkosky (1991) identified that the choice of grasps was influenced more so by the task to be performed than the size or shape of the object being grasped. Robotics Assembly Design Grippers Robotic...

... © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Robots Grippers New sealed 3-jaw gripper ideal for robots and automated assembly machines Keywords: Robots, Grippers One of the most useful work-clamping devices for robots and automated assembly machines operating in difficult...

...Richard Bloss A report on three major American automation shows where innovative products and automated assembly technologies formed a focus. Products reviewed include grippers, actuators, assembly modules, dispensing controller and pneumatic components from a number of suppliers. © MCB UP...

...Gareth Monkman Discusses the failings of conventional fixturing systems such as jigs and clamps and describes how electrorheological fluids can be used for flexible fixturing and workpiece retention. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Grippers Rheology The precision machining necessary...

.... To this day more than 80 per cent of production steps are done manually. The non‐linear material behaviour imposes significant difficulties when automating these processes. This paper presents an approach for flexible automated textile handling. After reviewing different current design principles of grippers...

...Anna Kochan Reports on the development of a robot gripper for the handling of small components measuring between 0.1 and 5mm, using the adhesive property of ice. Describes the testing of a prototype, which achieved high reliability. Phase one tests were conducted in an industrial environment...

...G. Bright; S.L. Martegoutte Looks at a research project to design a generic robotic gripper able to assemble a PC board with electronic components as efficiently as possible. Discusses the concept of grouping electronic components into part families to allow for the design of a generic gripper...

... reference points with many flexible materials and looks at solutions involving overhead cameras and multiple cameras. Outlines the various types of grippers which can be used for non‐rigid materials, covering mechanical action grippers, intrusive grippers and surface attraction grippers. Concludes...

... of PCBs, making changes to board assembly by changing the software instead of the hardware. Looks at the various end effectors for robotic assembly of PCBs, including a new type of gripper which can handle all variations of circuit boards without having to make tooling or gripper changes. © MCB UP...