The work is designed to develop a pick and place dual arm tele robotic vehicle with a soft catching gripper that is designed to avoid extra pressure on the suspected object (Like Bombs) for safety reasons. The robotic vehicle is android application controlled for remote operation. At the transmitting end using android application device, commands are sent to the receiver to control the movement...

The robotic gripper is an essential component for handling, manipulating, and transporting objects. However, the parallel rigid gripper, which one of most widely used grippers in robotics, has limitations handling fragile objects with a proper gripping force. We present shape-adaptive universal soft that can grip complex-shaped high holding skin extremely low stiffness ( ~ 46 kPa), even lower t...

The mango fruit (Mangifera indica) is a highly appreciated fruit by the consumers. One of the most significant quality aspects of mango is its firmness as it represents ripeness. Destructive tests are still commonly used as an instrumental reference for texture measurements. However, during the last two decades there has been an increasing interest in nondestructive fruit quality inspection. Th...

Gripping and holding of objects are key tasks for robotic manipulators. The development of universal grippers able to pick up unfamiliar objects of widely varying shape and surface properties remains, however, challenging. Most current designs are based on the multifingered hand, but this approach introduces hardware and software complexities. These include large numbers of controllable joints,...

This paper presents the design and optimization of a self-adaptive, a.k.a. underactuated, finger targeted to be used with collaborative robots. Typical robots, whether collaborative or not, mostly rely on standard translational grippers for pickand-place operations. These grippers are constituted from an actuated motion platform on which a set of jaws is rigidly attached. These jaws are often d...

The present paper presents a system used for performing design by making extended use of soft computing techniques. Throughout the paper the design of robotic grippers for flexible materials is used as a reference design case in both its conceptual and detailed design phases. The system contains three modules. The first module focuses on the conceptual design phase and is used for: a. the gener...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.07.076 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (D. Petković) It is known that robotic manipulators are highly nonlinear systems, and an accurate mathematical model is difficult to obtain, thus making it difficult to analyze with conventional analytical methods. Here, a novel design of an ...