The invention discloses a multifunctional gripper capable of taking and placing yarns and a separating plate. The multifunctional gripper comprises a motor, a
belt drive, a lead screw nut pair, a guide rail sliding block, a
visual system, a distance measuring sensor module,
yarn grabbing fingers and
sponge suction cups, the motor transmits motion to a lead screw through a belt wheel, the lead screw rotates to achieve nut movement, and therefore opening and closing of the fingers are achieved; each finger is provided with one
sponge suction cup, the suction cups can be folded into the two fingers along with combination of the fingers, and the
yarn grabbing process is not affected; when the separating plate is grabbed, the fingers are opened to the maximum
stroke, and the two
sponge suctioncups suck up the separating plate through negative pressure; the
stroke of the gripper is 100 mm, the inner
diameter of a
bobbin capable of grabbing cheese ranges from 92 mm to 130 mm, and the weightof the
bobbin depends on the load (smaller than 20 kg) of the
tail end of a cooperative
robot; and the separating plate between the yarns can be grabbed, by means of the function, the number of the yarns conveyed by an AGV can be greatly increased, the grabbing problem of the separating plate does not need to be considered any more, and the
automation efficiency is also improved.