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Designing a robotic gripper for harvesting horticulture products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2000

Marco Ceccarelli
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Meccanica, Strutture, Ambiente e Territorio, Università di Cassino, Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr), (Italy) ceccarelli@ing.unicas.it
Giorgio Figliolini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Meccanica, Strutture, Ambiente e Territorio, Università di Cassino, Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr), (Italy) ceccarelli@ing.unicas.it
Erika Ottaviano
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Meccanica, Strutture, Ambiente e Territorio, Università di Cassino, Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr), (Italy) ceccarelli@ing.unicas.it
Antonio Simon Mata
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ingenierìa Mecànica, Universidad de Malaga, Plaza Ejido s/n, 29013 Malaga, (Spain) mata@uma.es
Emilio Jimenez Criado
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ingenierìa Mecànica, Universidad de Malaga, Plaza Ejido s/n, 29013 Malaga, (Spain) mata@uma.es

Abstract

This paper approaches the design problem of suitable grippers for a robotic arm to pick up horticulture products. General considerations have been pointed out and main concepts and mechanical designs have been discussed and proposed by sketches and drawings for an easy understanding of “on-field” problems and feasible solutions. Pneumatic actuation has been proposed with suitable grasp force control by using commercial components. Specific attention has been focused on tomato horticulture for a practical design and prototyping of a device for laboratory experiments.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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