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Printable Soft Grippers with Integrated Bend Sensing for Handling of Crops

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posted on 2022-05-23, 09:24 authored by Khaled Elgeneidy, Pengcheng Liu, Simon Pearson, Gerhard Neumann

Handling delicate crops without damaging or bruising is a challenge facing the au-tomation of tasks within the agri-food sector, which encourages the utilization of soft grippers that are inherently safe and passively compliant. In this paper we present a brief overview of the development of a printable soft gripper integrated with printable bend sensors. The softness of the gripper fingers allows delicate crops to be grasped gently, while the bend sensors are calibrated to measure bending and detect contact. This way the soft gripper not only benefits from the passive compliance of its soft fingers, but also demonstrates a sensor-guided approach for improved grasp control. 

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Presented at

Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 19th Annual Conference, TAROS 2018, Bristol, UK July 25-27, 2018,

Published in

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Publisher

Springer

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Citation

Elgeneidy, K., Liu, P., Pearson, S., Lohse, N. and Neumann, G. (2018) 'Printable Soft Grippers with Integrated Bend Sensing for Handling of Crops',. In Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 19th Annual Conference, TAROS 2018, Bristol, UK July 25-27, 2018, Proceedings (Vol. 10965, p. 479-480). Springer.

Print ISSN

0302-9743

ISBN

978-3-319-96728-8

Cardiff Met Affiliation

  • Cardiff School of Technologies

Cardiff Met Authors

Pengcheng Liu

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  • © The Publisher

Language

  • en

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