新型混合夹爪兼具自适应抓握、均匀受力与省能自锁,适合农业采摘
Hybrid Rigid-Soft Robotic Gripper with Shape Adaptation, Uniform Force Distribution, and Self-Locking Capabilities

- 融合气动膜与双棘轮结构,实现形变适应与自锁
- 最大承重4200克,能耗降低50.05%,力分布更均匀
- 低成本3D打印+商用材料,适合规模化农业应用
传统机器人夹爪在农业自动化中面临柔顺适应性、压力均衡与高负载能力之间的权衡,常伴随高能耗。本文提出一种新型混合刚-软夹爪,集成低成本膜式气动执行器与3D打印双棘轮棘爪机构,实现形状自适应、受力均匀分布及无需耗能的自锁功能。偏置配置的双棘轮结构显著提升关节锁定的角分辨率。实验表明:最大负载达4200克,远超传统软夹爪(45-210克);不同物体间力差比为1.75-35.29%,优于刚性夹爪(56.77-66.44%),且峰值接触力低于表面损伤阈值;单次抓取能耗降至42.6焦耳,较传统软夹爪(85.28焦耳)降低50.05%,得益于自锁机制消除持续气压需求。通过增材制造与市售材料实现低成本、易制造设计。结果验证该夹爪成功弥合软性与刚性间的差距,为可扩展的农业收获与操作任务提供高效可靠解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Conventional robotic grippers face a significant challenge in agricultural automation: the trade-off between compliant, adaptive grasping, pressure balancing among all joints, and high load capacity, often at the cost of high energy consumption. This paper presents a novel hybrid rigid-soft gripper that integrated low-cost, membrane-based pneumatic actuators with 3D-printed dual ratchet-pawl mechanisms to simultaneously achieve shape adaptation, uniform force distribution, and energy-free self-locking. The dual-ratchet structure assembled in an offset configuration significantly increased the angular resolution of the joint locking mechanism. Key experimental results demonstrated the gripper's superior performance: a remarkable maximum load capacity of 4200 g, far exceeding that of conventional soft grippers (45-210 g); more uniform force distribution across object sizes (1.75-35.29% difference ratio) compared to a rigid gripper (56.77-66.44%), with peak contact forces remaining below surface damage thresholds; and a 50.05% reduction in total energy consumption to 42.6 J per grasp cycle, achieved by eliminating the need for continuous pneumatic pressure through the self-locking mechanism, compared to 85.28 J for a conventional soft gripper. The combination of additive manufacturing for ratchets and commercially available materials for pneumatic chambers ensured a low-cost and easily fabricated design. These findings validated that the proposed gripper successfully bridged the gap between soft compliance and rigid reliability, offering a robust and efficient solution for scalable agricultural harvesting and manipulation tasks.
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