A Pivoting Gripper for Feeding Industrial Parts
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To be cost effective and highly precise, many industrial assembly robots have only four degrees of freedom (D.O.F. ) plus a binary pneumatic gripper. Such robots commonly permit parts to be rotated only about a vertical axis. However it is often necessary to reorient parts about other axes prior to assembly. In this paper we describe a way to orient parts about an arbitrary axis by introducing a rotating bearing between the jaws of a simple gripper.
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