Design Constraints of Vacuum Gripper of Robots – as a Pick and Place Operating Tool

A substantial part of automated material handling and assembly is the interface between machine and work piece. Most of the robots grippers are not easily applicable for material handling such as the food products are often delicate, easily marked or bruised, adhesive and slippery. This study is an innovative approach of a gripper for handling variable size, shape and weight of unpacked food products i.e. ‘Vacuum Gripper of Robot’. This gripper operates using Bernoulli Principle of generating a high-speed flow between the gripper plate and product surface thereby creating vacuum which lifted the product. Feasibility observations are studied in this paper to demonstrate and obtain an overall understanding on the capability and limitations of the vacuum gripper. The main objective of this report is to highlights the importance of Vacuum Gripper in industrial robot applications that will deal exclusively with gripping of different variety of materials/parts by using vacuum gripper. The design parameter of the vacuum gripper has been stated for industrial operations. The end effectors must typically be designed for the specific application. This paper describes a gripping technology with vacuum gripper design system consideration for related components, such as two dimensional modules and three-dimensional modules. The system comprises of the gripping mechanism itself as well as its supporting items with different environmental aspects to be considered for design. In this approach, the different functions and the performance of the projected components are investigated and analyzed.