Soft Robotic Finger with Variable Effective Length enabled by an Antagonistic Constraint Mechanism

12/28/2021
by   Xing Wang, et al.
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Compared to traditional rigid robotics, soft robotics has attracted increasing attention due to its advantages as compliance, safety, and low cost. As an essential part of soft robotics, the soft robotic gripper also shows its superior while grasping the objects with irregular shapes. Recent research has been conducted to improve its grasping performance by adjusting the variable effective length (VEL). However, the VEL achieved by multi-chamber design or tunable stiffness shape memory material requires complex pneumatic circuit design or a time-consuming phase-changing process. This work proposes a fold-based soft robotic actuator made from 3D printed filament, NinjaFlex. It is experimentally tested and represented by the hyperelastic model. Mathematic and finite element modelling is conducted to study the bending behaviour of the proposed soft actuator. Besides, an antagonistic constraint mechanism is proposed to achieve the VEL, and the experiments demonstrate that better conformity is achieved. Finally, a two-mode gripper is designed and evaluated to demonstrate the advances of VEL on grasping performance.

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