Needle Gripper Heads: Zhongkui Wang Contact: Yuuya Kono Date: 2019 - Mailing address: Dept. Robotics, Ritsumeikan Univ. Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan Supported by: Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) "An intelligent knowledge processing infrastructure, integrating physical and virtual domains" Associated lab/group:

Project Description

This research proposes a pneumatically driven needle gripper that can penetrate confined areas and grip shredded food materials. This needle gripper has an air chamber on which needles are attached. Controlling air pressure inside the chamber will realize two action: penetrating and gripping.

natural state	under positive pressure

pick-and-place of shredded cabbage

Personnel

	Name	Title	Degree
	Makiyama Yui	Graduated	Master of Eng.
	Takumu Hayashi	Graduated
	Izumi Muraoka	Graduated

Publications

• Zhongkui Wang, Yui Makiyama, and Shinichi Hirai, A Soft Needle Gripper Capable of Grasping and Piercing for Handling Food Materials, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.33, No.4, pp.935-943, 10.20965/jrm.2021.p0935, Aug., 2021

• Yui Makiyama, Zhongkui Wang, and Shinichi Hirai, A Pneumatic Needle Gripper for Handling Shredded Food Products, 2020 IEEE Int. Conf. on Real-time Computing and Robotics (IEEE RCAR 2020), pp.183-187, 10.1109/RCAR49640.2020.9303279, online, Sept. 28-29, 2020

Notes

A Soft Needle Gripper Capable of Grasping and Piercing for Handling Food Materials

Needle gripper grasping shredded cabbage (4x)

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