A Simple Electric Soft Robotic Gripper with High-Deformation Haptic Feedback
Lillian Chin, Michelle C. Yuen, Jeffrey Lipton, Luis H. Trueba, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Daniela Rus
Abstract
Compliant robotic grippers are more robust to uncertainties in grasping and manipulation tasks, especially when paired with tactile and proprioceptive feedback. Although considerable progress has been made towards achieving proprioceptive soft robotic grippers, current efforts require complex driving hardware or fabrication techniques. In this paper, we present a simple scalable soft robotic gripper integrated with high-deformation strain and pressure sensors. The gripper is composed of structurally-compliant handed shearing auxetic structures actuated by electric motors. Coupling deformable sensors with the compliant grippers enables gripper proprioception and object classification. With this sensorized system, we are able to identify objects' size to within 33% of actual radius and sort objects as hard/soft with 78% accuracy.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{icra2019_asimpleelectrics,
title = {A Simple Electric Soft Robotic Gripper with High-Deformation Haptic Feedback},
author = {Lillian Chin and Michelle C. Yuen and Jeffrey Lipton and Luis H. Trueba and Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio and Daniela Rus},
booktitle = {ICRA 2019},
year = {2019}
}