Design and Optimization of an Origami Gripper for Versatile Grasping and Manipulation

Robotic grasping and manipulation demand the ability to handle a multitude of objects with different shapes, sizes, quantities, surface smoothness, vulnerability, and stiffness, which is challenging without prior knowledge about object properties. Herein, a novel origami‐inspired gripper for univers...

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Main Authors: Hanwen Cao, Jianshu Zhou, Kai Chen, Qiguang He, Qi Dou, Yun‐Hui Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2024-12-01
Series:Advanced Intelligent Systems
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400271
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author Hanwen Cao
Jianshu Zhou
Kai Chen
Qiguang He
Qi Dou
Yun‐Hui Liu
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Jianshu Zhou
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Qi Dou
Yun‐Hui Liu
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description Robotic grasping and manipulation demand the ability to handle a multitude of objects with different shapes, sizes, quantities, surface smoothness, vulnerability, and stiffness, which is challenging without prior knowledge about object properties. Herein, a novel origami‐inspired gripper for universal grasping is presented. The innovative structure seamlessly transforms a simple uniaxial pulling motion into a flexible and robust envelope or pinch grasp, enabling it to tackle various scenarios. The origami gripper offers distinctive advantages, including scalable and optimizable design, grasping compliance and robustness, providing material flexibility, and providing solutions to challenging manipulation tasks. The working principles of the origami gripper are characterized and analyzed. An optimization‐based inverse design method is presented to adjust gripper properties for various scenarios. Through comprehensive experimentation and evaluation, the gripper's capabilities to grasp various objects with a wide range of distinctive properties, including ultrasoft, slippery, granular, and multiple objects, which is a challenge for the existing robotic grippers, are demonstrated. The research holds promise for transformative applications in areas such as the food industry, waste handling, fine and fragile objects grasping, and environmental sampling.
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spelling doaj-art-8b41cbcf86254d058171ab1b48fe4fe32024-12-23T13:10:43ZengWileyAdvanced Intelligent Systems2640-45672024-12-01612n/an/a10.1002/aisy.202400271Design and Optimization of an Origami Gripper for Versatile Grasping and ManipulationHanwen Cao0Jianshu Zhou1Kai Chen2Qiguang He3Qi Dou4Yun‐Hui Liu5The Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 Hong Kong SARThe Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 Hong Kong SARThe Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 Hong Kong SARThe Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 Hong Kong SARThe Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 Hong Kong SARThe Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 999077 Hong Kong SARRobotic grasping and manipulation demand the ability to handle a multitude of objects with different shapes, sizes, quantities, surface smoothness, vulnerability, and stiffness, which is challenging without prior knowledge about object properties. Herein, a novel origami‐inspired gripper for universal grasping is presented. The innovative structure seamlessly transforms a simple uniaxial pulling motion into a flexible and robust envelope or pinch grasp, enabling it to tackle various scenarios. The origami gripper offers distinctive advantages, including scalable and optimizable design, grasping compliance and robustness, providing material flexibility, and providing solutions to challenging manipulation tasks. The working principles of the origami gripper are characterized and analyzed. An optimization‐based inverse design method is presented to adjust gripper properties for various scenarios. Through comprehensive experimentation and evaluation, the gripper's capabilities to grasp various objects with a wide range of distinctive properties, including ultrasoft, slippery, granular, and multiple objects, which is a challenge for the existing robotic grippers, are demonstrated. The research holds promise for transformative applications in areas such as the food industry, waste handling, fine and fragile objects grasping, and environmental sampling.https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400271graspingmanipulationorigami robotsrobotic gripperssoft robotics
spellingShingle Hanwen Cao
Jianshu Zhou
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Qi Dou
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Design and Optimization of an Origami Gripper for Versatile Grasping and Manipulation
Advanced Intelligent Systems
grasping
manipulation
origami robots
robotic grippers
soft robotics
title Design and Optimization of an Origami Gripper for Versatile Grasping and Manipulation
title_full Design and Optimization of an Origami Gripper for Versatile Grasping and Manipulation
title_fullStr Design and Optimization of an Origami Gripper for Versatile Grasping and Manipulation
title_full_unstemmed Design and Optimization of an Origami Gripper for Versatile Grasping and Manipulation
title_short Design and Optimization of an Origami Gripper for Versatile Grasping and Manipulation
title_sort design and optimization of an origami gripper for versatile grasping and manipulation
topic grasping
manipulation
origami robots
robotic grippers
soft robotics
url https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400271
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