Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 27, 2020 - May 30, 2020
In this research, a gluing-less shell gripper is proposed for packaging multiple cucumber simultaneously. The proposed shell gripper consists of multiple thin flat fingers which were constructed by a thin shell and a soft chamber. The flat finger can be pneumatically inflated for the purpose of grasping objects. The flat finger was fabricated by only one-time casting process without demolding and gluing operations. This makes the gripper easy to be fabricated and having a thin geometry. The durability and pressure resistance were tested, and packaging experiments were performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed shell gripper.
