A Helical Bistable Soft Gripper Enable by Pneumatic Actuation
Xuanchun Yin,Junliang Xie,Pengyu Zhou,Sheng Wen,Jiantao Zhang,Xuanchun Yin,Junliang Xie,Pengyu Zhou,Sheng Wen,Jiantao Zhang
There are many instances of helical mechanisms that are used to efficiently grasp different objects with various shapes and sizes in nature. Inspired by the helical grasping in the nature, we proposed a helical bistable soft gripper with high load capacity and energy saving. An off-the-shelf bistable steel shell (BSS) as the stiff element was inserted into a 3D printing soft helical exoskeleton to...
