Engineers from the Center for the Development of Industrial Robotics at the South Ural State University (SUSU) have developed two types of gripping devices for industrial robots. This was reported by the university's press service.
Modern factories often need to work with fragile products of non-standard sizes. Traditional rigid grippers are unsuitable for these purposes.
The pneumomechanical chain gripper, created by Chelyabinsk specialists, automatically adapts to the dimensions of the object. Thanks to the plate chain as a fixing element, it can work as part of a robotic complex or be used to perform individual operations in small-scale production.
The second innovation from SUSU is a pneumatic fractal gripper. The equipment uses movable hemispheres to fix a complex-shaped part in 6 points at once. An automatic robotic line can be equipped with one or more grippers of this type. They will be able to work independently of each other.
The design provides for the possibility of equipping with individual flanges with the arrangement of mounting holes to meet the requirements of specific customer equipment.
The chain and fractal grippers are ready for implementation in existing production facilities, the developers summarized.
