Regrasping on Printed Circuit Boards with the Smart Suction Cup

Jungpyo Lee,Zheng Sun,Zhipeng Dong,Fei Chen,Hannah S. Stuart,Jungpyo Lee,Zheng Sun,Zhipeng Dong,Fei Chen,Hannah S. Stuart

The disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) presents a sustainability challenge, particularly for waste printed circuit boards (PCBs). PCBs are challenging to sort out from other waste materials in part because traditional industrial end-effectors struggle to reliably grip these irregularly shaped objects with unmodeled surface-mounted components. Vision-based separators, whil...