Vacuum Cup Grippers for Material Handling In Industry

The vacuum cup grippers operate using Bernoulli Principle for generating high-speed flow between the vacuum cup and product surface thereby creating vacuum which lifted the product. Feasibility observations are studied to demonstrate and obtain an overall understanding on the capability and limitations of the vacuum cup gripper. Most of the robot grippers are not easily applicable due to the food products are often delicate, easily marked or bruised, adhesive and slippery. In this paper, the study is an innovative approach of a gripper for handling variable in sizes; shape and weight of unpacked food products i.e. ‘Vacuum cup gripper of Robot’. A substantial part of automated material handling and assembly is the interface between machine and work piece. The main objective of this report is to highlights the importance of vacuum cup universal gripper in industrial robot applications. Such grippers will deal exclusively with gripping of different variety of materials/parts by using vacuum cup gripper. This paper describes a gripping technology with vacuum cup system for large building components, such as two dimensional modules and threedimensional modules. The design parameter of the vacuum cup gripper i.e. end-effectors is a critical consideration in the applications of robotics for industrial operations. The end effectors must typically be designed for the specific application. In order to realize the full potential of future robotics technology, vacuum cup grippers must be designed more likely as human hand, both in their sensory and control capabilities as well as their anatomical configuration.