Abstract
A vacuum gripper is typically used in various industrial fields for tasks such as clamping and lifting. This type of gripper works with suction cups, which are connected through a vacuum line to pick up a target part. During the operation, vacuum grippers sometimes fail to pick up a part properly because of defective surface conditions or unoptimized control variables for different products. However, it is not easy to know whether the current operation will be correctly performed via a traditional gripper. Therefore, we aim to identify relevant parameters for the real-time condition of a vacuum gripper system to detect the corresponding operation status. An air pressure measurement is developed to monitor the degree of change in air pressure in order to determine whether a target product can be held by a vacuum gripper. A robotic arm with one suction cup is utilized, and an analog air pressure sensor is installed for real-time condition monitoring of the gripper operation in a vacuum line. Using this measurement system, we can conduct an experiment to discover effects of control parameters to pick-up operation of a vacuum gripper, whether a gripper succeeds or fails in holding a part.
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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. NRF-2019R1G1A1097478), and was also supported by Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) grant funded by the Korea Government (MOTIE) (P0012744, The Competency Development Program for Industry Specialist).
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Baek, S., Kim, D.O., Lee, S.J., Yu, N.H., Chea, S.I. (2022). Development of Air Pressure Measurement System of Suction Cups in a Vacuum Gripper. In: Lee, R. (eds) Computer and Information Science 2021 - Fall. ICIS 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1003. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90528-6_5
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