3 accepted papers
With the growth of logistics automation, there is an increasing demand for advanced grippers. This study presents a gripper that integrates suction cups into the fingertips to overcome the limitations of traditional robotic gripping methods. Designed with a 5-degree-of-freedom structure, the gripper
Artificial muscles have been developed for various input power sources. Among them, thermally driven actuators can be easily actuated at a low voltage without an additional device using the Joule heating. Therefore, these actuators can be considered suitable for developing lightweight robots. Shape
Shape memory alloy actuators (SMA) are widely used in robots owing to their flexibility and light weight. However, there is a drawback in that SMAs need to be used as a bundle owing to their lower force density than the motor. In addition, SMAs require continuous current to maintain a contracted sta