Generic Automated Multi-function Finger Design

[摘要] Multi-function fingers that are able to handle multiple workpieces are crucial in improvement of a robot workcell. Design automation of multi-function fingers is highly demanded by robot industries to overcome the current iterative, time consuming and complex manual design process. However, the existing approaches for the multi-function finger design automation are unable to entirely meet the robot industries' need. This paper proposes a generic approach for design automation of multi-function fingers. The proposed approach completely automates the design process and requires no expert skill. In addition, this approach executes the design process much faster than the current manual process. To validate the approach, multi-function fingers are successfully designed for two case studies. Further, the results are discussed and benchmarked with existing approaches.

[发布机构] ABB, Corporate Research, Västerås, Sweden^1;Machin Design Division, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden^2

[效力级别] 无线电电子学

[关键词] Design automations;Design process;Finger design;Generic approach;Manual design;Manual process;Multi-functions;Robot workcell