I-Corps: Humanoid Robotic Hand for Use in Fulfillment Centers

I-Corps：用于配送中心的人形机械手

• 批准号: 2240810
• 负责人: Shorya Awtar
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2240810&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Humanoid; Robotic; Hand; Use

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the development of a robotic hand to complete component pick and place operations across industrial applications such as E-commerce fulfillment and automotive assembly. While other gripping solutions such as suction cups and simple grippers are commercially available and affordable, these solutions are unable to grasp the full range of products found in such industrial applications, preventing automation of these operations. Commercialization of the proposed robotic hand may lead to automation of pick and place operations across several industries, resulting in lower costs, improved safety, and increased accuracy. This I-Corps project is based on the development of actuation technologies that can replicate the capabilities of human muscle at the same size of those that articulate the human hand. The proposed technology, in combined with several other innovations, may make it possible to produce a robotic hand that replicates the capabilities of the human hand in size, weight, strength, speed, and dexterity. Existing actuation technologies are unable to replicate the capabilities of human muscle at this size, leading to grippers and hands that are simultaneously slower, weaker, and less dexterous than the human hand. Previous basic research in actuator technologies and mechanism and transmission design enable this improvement in capabilities over existing technologies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是开发机械手，以完成电子商务履行和汽车组装等工业应用中的组件取放操作。虽然其他夹持解决方案（如吸盘和简单的夹持器）在商业上可用且价格合理，但这些解决方案无法抓取此类工业应用中的全部产品，从而阻碍了这些操作的自动化。拟制机械手的商业化可能会导致多个行业的取放操作自动化，从而降低成本，提高安全性，提高准确性。这个I-Corps项目是基于驱动技术的发展，这种技术可以复制人类肌肉的能力，而人类肌肉的大小与人类的手相同。这项拟议中的技术，结合其他几项创新，可能会制造出在大小、重量、力量、速度和灵活性上复制人手能力的机器人手。现有的驱动技术无法复制这种大小的人类肌肉的能力，导致抓手和手同时比人的手更慢、更弱、更不灵巧。先前在执行器技术、机构和传动设计方面的基础研究使这种能力优于现有技术。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。