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Self-adaption grasping force analysis for an apple sorting hand-claw with robustness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2014

Jun Zhang  and
Guangyuan Liu
Jun Zhang
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, P.R. China Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Food Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Wuxi 214122, P.R. China
Guangyuan Liu*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, P.R. China
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: hap-cleoy@163.com
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Summary

A flexible apple sorting hand-claw with three fingers evenly on the spiral chuck is designed. Each finger with series double hinges is driven by one air-cylinder. Sizes of hand-claw and parameters of two torsion springs round axes of series double hinges are obtained via global optimization based on the grid method so that the two torsion springs exhibit a coordinative function to enhance compliance for grasping apples of different sizes under the same system pressure. Besides, the critical pressures and bending deflection between different working processes are studied. Results show that hinge 2 begins to rotate at 0.0270 MPa pressure, and when the pressure increases to 0.0634 MPa and 0.0746 MPa, hand-claw begins to touch the biggest and the smallest apples respectively. The curve of torsional angle versus pressure presents that angular velocity droops with homogeneous extension. Therefore, it is able to reduce impact and time in vain during the grasping process. Crucially, the grasping forces for grasping the smallest and the biggest apple are 4 N and 4.38 N respectively under the same 0.5 MPa pressure, indicating the excellent adaption performance and robust result for size variation of apples without any force sensors.

Keywords

Flexible hand-clawSelf-adaptionApple graspingGlobal optimizationRobust result
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Robotica , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , April 2016 , pp. 723 - 737
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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