Rigid-flexible coupling double-drive pneumatic gripper

Abstract

The invention belongs to the field of mechanical grippers, and particularly discloses a rigid-flexible coupling double-drive pneumatic gripper. The gripper comprises a supporting device, a gripper device and a driving device, wherein the gripper device and the driving device are connected with the supporting device; the gripper device comprises a rigid gripper unit and a soft gripper unit which are connected in parallel, when a fragile object is gripped, the soft gripper unit is active and the rigid gripper unit is passive, and when a heavy object is grabbed, the rigid gripper unit is active and the soft gripper unit is passive; and the driving device comprises a first pneumatic unit and a second pneumatic unit, the first pneumatic unit is used for driving the rigid gripper unit, and the second pneumatic unit is used for driving the soft gripper unit. The rigid-flexible coupling double-drive pneumatic gripper has the advantages of being large in grabbing mass range and good in grabbingattachment performance, and the grabbing mass and the grabbing attachment degree of the rigid-flexible coupling double-drive pneumatic gripper can be adjusted and controlled by adjusting the drivingproportion of the first pneumatic unit and the second pneumatic unit.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the field of mechanical grippers, and more specifically relates to a rigid-flexible coupling dual-drive pneumatic gripper. Background technique [0002] With the innovation and development of technology, all kinds of mechanical grippers have been created and used to adapt to various working environments. Among them, the newly emerging software robot gripper has gradually entered people's field of vision due to its excellent environmental adaptability and interaction ability. [0003] Most of the existing grippers are based on fully rigid structures, which have defects such as high requirements for the position accuracy of the grasped objects, difficulty in grasping fragile objects, and poor interaction capabilities. The emerging soft robot gripper benefits from the softness of soft materials, which has natural adaptability and interactive capabilities, and can complete tasks that are difficult for rigid grippers (such as grasp...

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Problems solved by technology

[0003] Most of the existing grippers are based on fully rigid structures, which have defects such as high requirements for the position accuracy of the grasped objects, difficulty in grasping fragile objects, and poor interaction capabilities.

The emerging soft robot gripper benefits from the softness of soft materials, which has natural adaptability and interactive capabilities, and can complete tasks that are difficult for rigid grippers (such as grasping fragile objects such as cakes and jellies) through a relatively simple structure. But it also has the defect that the gripping force is too small

The existing main idea to solve this problem is to introduce variable stiffness mechanisms such as particle blockage and low-melting point alloys to change the stiffness of the soft gripper, but on the one hand, this will introduce unnecessary time-consuming stiffness changes, and on the other hand The improvement of the stiffness of the soft gripper is also relatively limited

[0004] In summary, there is still a lack of a soft gripper with a larger gripping range, and it is difficult to further increase the gripping limit of the soft gripper by using the existing variable stiffness mechanism and design concept

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