To develop a weight-transducing, vacuum cup end-effector for handling light objects which is unaffected by vacuum supply characteristics (hose stiffness and dynamics).

开发一种重量传输真空杯末端执行器，用于处理不受真空供应特性（软管刚度和动力学）影响的轻物体。

• 批准号: 130942
• 金额: $ 1.4万
• 依托单位: SILSOE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=130942
• 关键词: develop; weight; transducing; vacuum; cup

Many applications in the food and horticultural sectors involve manual picking of individual objects from a bulk container e.g. making-up the weight of strawberry or mushroom punnets. As a punnet passes over a weigh cell the operator is given a signal which indicates whether the punnet is too light or too heavy and by what amount. The operator then adds or takes away an appropriate number of products.Using an array of vacuum cups it is possible to blindly pick strawberries out of a punnet automatically. However, commercially available vacuum cups give no information on the weight of the product they are carrying. Our objective in this project is to research and develop a weight-sensing vacuum cup device for lightweight objects that is unaffected by the vacuum hose stiffness or object-cup interactions. We will then use an array of these devices to investigate automatic-blind-picking and intelligent sorting of multiple objects e.g. strawberries into their respective weight categories.

食品和园艺领域的许多应用都涉及从散装容器中手动拾取单个物体，例如补足草莓或蘑菇篮的重量。当一个小网子经过称重传感器时，操作员会得到一个信号，指示小网子是否太轻或太重，以及重量是多少。然后操作员添加或取走适当数量的产品。使用一系列真空杯，可以自动盲目地从一个小篮中挑选草莓。然而，市售的真空杯没有提供关于它们所携带的产品重量的信息。我们在这个项目中的目标是研究和开发一种重量感应真空杯装置，用于轻质物体，不受真空软管刚度或物体-杯子相互作用的影响。然后，我们将使用一系列这些设备来研究自动盲选和智能分拣多个对象，例如草莓到其各自的重量类别。