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 pr...

The application of automation for handling of non-rigid or semirigid food products are limited due to lack of appropriate gripper. Most of the robot grippers are not easily applicable due to food products are often delicate, easily marked or bruised, adhesive and slippery. In this paper, we present an innovative approach of a gripper for handling variable size, shape and weight of unpacked food...

We consider the scheduling problem of cyclic production in a bufferless dual-gripper robot cell processing a family of identical parts. The objective is to find an optimal sequence of robot moves so as to maximize the long-run average throughput rate of the cell. While there has been a considerable amount of research dealing with single-gripper robot cells, there are only a few papers devoted t...

Purpose – Passively compliant underactuated mechanisms are one way to obtain the gripper which could accommodate to any irregular and sensitive grasping object. The purpose of the underactuation is to use less active inputs than the number of degrees of freedom of the gripper mechanism to drive the open and close motion of the gripper. Another purpose of underaction is to reduce the number of c...

Varieties of robotic grippers are developed with high flexibility and multi-functional approaches. In this paper, the study is an innovative approach of a gripper for handling variable size, shape and weight of unpacked food products i.e. ‘Vacuum Gripper of Robots’ which is working on Bernoulli Principle for generating a high-speed flow between the gripper plate and product surface thereby crea...

This paper proposes a new method for grasping an object positioned in a cluttered workspace. The grasping of an object usually relies on the analysis of its contour in order to determine the contact points for the ngers of the gripper. The planning of the positioning of the real gripper in the workspace at the chosen points is often considered as a separate problem. The method proposed in this ...

The development of universal grippers able to pick up unfamiliar objects of widely varying shapes and surfaces is a very challenging task. Passively compliant underactuated mechanisms are one way to obtain the gripper which could accommodate any irregular and sensitive grasping object. The purpose of the underactuation is to use the power of one actuator to drive the opening and closing motion ...