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Laihu Peng, Yuan Sun, Yubao Qi and Xin Ru
In order to solve the problem of low response frequency and poor consistency of conventional yarn grippers in weft accumulators, in this study, a piezoelectric yarn gripper is used instead of conventional yarn grippers and the motion characteristics of i...
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Zhikang Peng, Dongli Liu, Xiaoyun Song, Meihua Wang, Yiwen Rao, Yanjie Guo and Jun Peng
Soft pneumatic grippers can grasp soft or irregularly shaped objects, indicating potential applications in industry, agriculture, and healthcare. However, soft grippers rarely carry heavy and dense objects due to the intrinsic low modulus of soft materia...
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Safal Lama and Taher Deemyad
This paper introduces a new gripper mechanism that is capable of grasping objects of various sizes and shapes without the need for a closed-loop control system. Industries such as the food and beverage industry are seeking innovative soft grippers with a...
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Mariam A. Amer, Pradeep Rajan, Sherif Mehanny, Arkadiusz Artyszak and Mohamed A. A. Ahmed
Background: Recently, there has been a growing demand for the mechanization of flower harvesting to enhance harvesting efficiency. Therefore, the purpose of the current research was to design a jasmine flower automated picker system (JFAPS). The picking ...
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Jonathan Cacace, Lorenzo Giampetraglia, Fabio Ruggiero and Vincenzo Lippiello
Energy grids represent a fundamental infrastructure of any country. These structures consist of many kilometres of power lines that must be periodically inspected and maintained. Among the necessary operations are installing and removing bird diverters t...
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Fu Zhang, Zijun Chen, Yafei Wang, Ruofei Bao, Xingguang Chen, Sanling Fu, Mimi Tian and Yakun Zhang
The rapid, stable, and undamaged picking of small-sized spherical fruits are one of the key technologies to improve the level of intelligent picking robots and reduce grading operations. Cherry tomatoes were selected as the research object in this work. ...
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Eleni Vrochidou, Viktoria Nikoleta Tsakalidou, Ioannis Kalathas, Theodoros Gkrimpizis, Theodore Pachidis and Vassilis G. Kaburlasos
In recent years, the agricultural sector has turned to robotic automation to deal with the growing demand for food. Harvesting fruits and vegetables is the most labor-intensive and time-consuming among the main agricultural tasks. However, seasonal labor...
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Ji-Hyeon Yoo, Ho-Jin Jung, Jang-Hyeon Kim, Dae-Han Sim and Han-Ul Yoon
Geduldspiele cubes (also known as patience cubes in English) are interesting problems to solve with robotic systems on the basis of machine learning approaches. Generally, highly dexterous hand and finger movement is required to solve them. In this paper...
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Qiao Xu, Xiaolong Cui, Shunqi Mei, Yuchen He, Zhen Chen and Fanhe Meng
This paper addresses the problem of low electromagnetic weft insertion acceleration performance of extra-large width automatic looms. Based on single-stage electromagnetic weft insertion and multi-stage intermittent electromagnetic weft insertion, a sect...
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Minghe Shan and Lingling Shi
The space debris problem poses a huge threat to operational satellites and has to be addressed. Multiple removal methods have been proposed to keep Earth?s orbit stable. Flexible connection capturing methods, such as the harpoon system, tether?gripper sy...
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