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Fluid Pressure Sensing Strategy Suitable for Swallowing Soft Gripper
Mingge Li1, Wenxi Zhang1, Quan Liu1
1The School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
Abstract:
Soft grippers exhibit excellent adaptability in handling objects of various shapes. However, due to the large deformation and high compliance of their constituent materials, the integration of sensing capabilities has long been a major research challenge. Based on the swallowing-type soft gripper proposed in previous work, this study explores the gripper's capability to perceive object information by leveraging the characteristic that the sealed cavity undergoes volume change due to compression by the object during swallowing, thereby altering the pressure of the internal fluid medium. By establishing the geometric configuration of the sealed cavity composed of elastic membranes, the volume-pressure variation sensing model during the object swallowing process was derived. The performance of this sensing method was tested, and the application of the fluid pressure sensing strategy in closed-loop control was demonstrated, including the classification of objects by shape and sorting by size. This work provides a solution for the object shape-adaptive swallowing-type soft gripper to achieve sensory grasping functionality.
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