通过气囊调节摩擦力,实现轻柔抓取易碎或滑溜物体。
Soft Rigid Hybrid Gripper with Inflatable Silicone Pockets for Tunable Frictional Grasping
- 用可充气硅胶袋增强夹持表面摩擦力,不靠加大压力
- 气压升高使摩擦系数成比例提升,抓握更稳
- 适合抓鸡蛋、豆腐等脆弱或光滑物品,损伤极小
抓取重物、滑溜物或易碎物仍是机器人领域的难题。传统刚性夹爪常通过增大正压力来固定物体,但可能因用力过大损坏脆弱物品。为此,我们提出一种软硬结合的夹爪结构,将刚性外壳与可充气硅胶腔体结合,可集成于常规夹爪中。该设计可通过调节硅胶腔内气压主动改变表面摩擦力,实现无需增加夹持力即可稳固抓取。实验表明,内部气压升高时,有效摩擦系数随之成比例增加。抓取测试显示,该夹爪能稳定举起重物和滑溜物,如鸡蛋、豆腐、水果和纸杯,对易损物品造成的损伤极小。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Grasping objects with diverse mechanical properties, such as heavy, slippery, or fragile items, remains a significant challenge in robotics. Conventional rigid grippers typically rely on increasing the normal forces to secure an object, however, this can cause damage to fragile objects due to excessive force. To address this limitation, we propose a soft rigid hybrid gripper finger that combines rigid structural shells with soft, inflatable silicone pockets, which could be integrated into a conventional gripper. The hybrid gripper can actively modulate its surface friction by varying the internal air pressure of the silicone pockets, enabling the gripper to securely grasp objects without increasing the gripping force. This is demonstrated by fundamental experimental results, in which an increase in internal pressure leads to a proportional increase in the effective coefficient of friction. The gripping experiments also show that the integrated gripper can stably lift heavy and slippery objects or fragile, deformable objects, such as eggs, tofu, fruits, and paper cups, with minimal damage by increasing friction rather than applying high force.
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