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PRECISION ENGINEERING-JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES FOR PRECISION ENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 56, Issue -, Pages 53-61Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.precisioneng.2018.09.004
Keywords
Compliant mechanism; Gripper; Parallel mechanism; Constant force; Mechanism design
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China, China [51575545]
- Macao Science and Technology Development Fund, China [179/2017/A3]
- Research Committee of University of Macau [MYRG2018-00034-FST]
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This paper presents the design and testing of a novel flexure-based compliant parallel gripper with compound constant-force mechanism. One uniqueness of the microgripper lies in that it achieves two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) independent constant-force parallel grasping operations. In each direction, the grasping is executed along with active and passive constant-force properties. The passive constant-force property eliminates the use of force control while the active constant-force enlarges the grasping range by reducing the required driving force. Besides, the passive constant-force property can protect the grasped object from overloading. The parallel-kinematic flexure mechanism design enables nearly decoupled operations in 2-DOF manipulation. Analytical modeling of the microgripper mechanism is carried out based on pseudo-rigid-body method and elliptic integral approach, which is verified by conducting simulation study with nonlinear finite-element analysis (FEA). Parametric study is conducted to investigate the influence of dominant design variable on the microgripper performance. To demonstrate the performance of the gripper, a prototype is fabricated by 3D printer. Experimental results reveal that the devised microgripper owns a good decoupling performance and constant force property in parallel grasping operation.
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