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A Soft Gripper Driven by Bellow Actuators and Twist Actuators for Dexterous Grasping

  • Diancheng Li
  • , Liangmin Zhou
  • , Renjie Zhu
  • , Jintao Yin
  • , Zhengbai Liu
  • , Han Yuan
  • , Hongqiang Wang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Southern University of Science and Technology
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

Human hands are dexterous and capable of grasping objects of various shapes and manipulating the objects within the hands. Conventional soft grippers are able to grasp, but few can manipulate objects within the grippers. To fill this gap, this work designs a soft gripper with soft bellow actuators and soft twisting actuators, which can adaptively clutch objects and handle them in different postures in the gripper. Compared with the previous rigid grippers, this soft gripper possesses a higher adaption to complex shapes and fragile objects and greater reliability against a strong impact due to its compliance. We demonstrate its successful grasping on more than 15 daily items of different profiles and surface textures, rolling and picking up a piece of thin plastic film, and reversing the posture of a ball within the gripper. It has also survived brutal hammer attacks and robustly grabbed an object while experiencing strong impacts.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages962-967
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665405355
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2021 - Sanya, China
Duration: 27 Dec 202131 Dec 2021

Publication series

Name2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2021

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CitySanya
Period27/12/2131/12/21

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