Sheet-based gripper featuring passive pull-in functionality for bin picking and for picking up thin flexible objects

  • Novel versatile parallel gripper equipped with a sheet-embedded belt that enables passive pull-in operations.
  • Finger deflection enables the belt to roll up with the closing motion of the gripper, thereby the passively pull-in operations.
  • The pull-in mechanism is effective for bin-picking as well as in picking up thin, flexible objects one at a time

Kota Morino ; Shiro Kikuchi ; Shinichi Chikagawa ; Masakazu Izumi ; Tetsuyou Watanabe , Sheet-based gripper featuring passive pull-in functionality for bin picking and for picking up thin flexible objects, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol.5, No.2, pp.2007-2014, 2020. doi:10.1109/LRA.2020.2970630
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