Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 02, 2018 - June 05, 2018
Contact type end effector causes several problems to the object, such as the physical damage, static electricity, metal contamination, and so on. These problems adversely affect semiconductor wafers and glass substrates. Therefore, non-contact type adsorption are focused. The application of the non-contact type is limited to a flat workpiece, and it's difficult to grasp a workpiece having an uneven shape. In this research, we propose the novel non-contact type vacuum pad, named Universal Vacuum Gripper (in short, UVG) based on Universal Jamming Gripper [1] (hereinafter referred as UG). UG is the deformable robotic gripper based on Jamming transition of granular material. UVG realize the non-contact gripping to the workpiece with uneven surface, because the lip part of the gripper consists of UG, which freely deforms with respect to the workpiece.
