Bio-Inspired Grasping Systems

Description

The main idea of the project is the design of grippers that imitate (bio-inspire) the mechanisms or functions of the existing grasping methods in nature, which, thanks to evolution, have achieved significant success for certain tasks and objects.

Funding

The project partially funded by grant “Disassembly plans that take into account the mechanical and dynamic characteristics of the robot/implementation of disassembly application” from fund New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). Other part of the project was partially funded by Texas Robotics AIP Research Fund Award “Dexterous Fingers for Delicate Grasping with Low Contact Capabilities”.

Colaboration

  • National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan).
  • Department of Systems Innovation, Osaka University (Japan).
  • DENSO Robotics (Japan).
  • Texas Robotics, The University of Texas at Austin (USA).
  • Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (USA).
  • Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin (USA).
  • EPAM School of Digital Technologies, American University Kyiv (Powered by Arizona State University) (Ukraine).

Projects

Bio-Inspired Adaptive Robotic Gripper for Enhanced Tool Manipulation in Assembly and Disassembly Applications

Publications

  • R. Mykhailyshyn, Y. Domae, K. Harada, ARTiS: An Adaptive Robotic Gripper for Enhanced Tool Manipulation in Assembly and Disassembly Applications. In process.
  • M. Kojouharov, R. Mykhailyshyn, A. Majewicz Fey, Soft Vortex Gripper for Dexterous Manipulation using Hand-Like Robots. In process.
  • M. J. DeMoor, R. Mykhailyshyn, A. Majewicz Fey, Bio-Inspired Suction Cup. In process.