A Caging Inspired Gripper using Flexible Fingers and a Movable Palm
Luke Beddow,Helge Wurdemann,Dimitrios Kanoulas,Luke Beddow,Helge Wurdemann,Dimitrios Kanoulas
This paper proposes the design of a robotic gripper motivated by the bin-picking problem, where a variety of objects need to be picked from cluttered bins. The presented gripper design focuses on an enveloping cage-like approach, which surrounds the object with three hooked fingers, and then presses into the object with a movable palm. The fingers are flexible and imbue grasps with some elasticity...