CN214561001U - Pneumatic soft clamping hand with variable grabbing range - Google Patents

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CN214561001U
CN214561001U CN202120631447.4U CN202120631447U CN214561001U CN 214561001 U CN214561001 U CN 214561001U CN 202120631447 U CN202120631447 U CN 202120631447U CN 214561001 U CN214561001 U CN 214561001U
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覃兴蒙
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The utility model belongs to the field of soft mechanical arms, and provides a pneumatic soft clamping hand with variable grabbing range, which comprises a finger support frame and soft fingers, wherein the position of the soft fingers at the extension end of the support frame is adjusted by arranging guide grooves at the extension end of the support frame of the finger support frame, so that the stretching degree of the soft fingers is adjusted, and the grabbing force is increased to adapt to different grabbing objects; the large chamber and the small chamber are respectively provided with the air inlets and are independently controlled by one air source, so that the bending degree of the soft fingers is increased, the clamping hand has more stability in the process of grabbing objects and can grab more firmly; the gripping and releasing of the soft finger to an object are realized by arranging a corrugated large chamber and a corrugated small chamber on the soft finger and inputting different air pressures to the large air bag and the small air bag of the chambers; the soft fingers are made of flexible materials, so that the damage degree to the object can be reduced when the object is grabbed.

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Pneumatic soft clamping hand with variable grabbing range
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to software manipulator field, concretely relates to pneumatic software centre gripping hand of variable scope of snatching.
Background
The traditional rigid manipulator is widely applied to social production life of human beings, can quickly, accurately and repeatedly execute tasks in grabbing work in an industrial field, but is complex in manufacturing process, high in cost, limited in flexibility, weak in man-machine interaction and poor in adaptability to the environment.
With the continuous progress of science and technology, the quality requirement of the manipulator is more and more strict, and the rigid manipulator is difficult to meet the requirements in some fields, such as the aspects of grabbing fragile products, objects with irregular surface shapes, soft products and the like. Therefore, the advent of soft robots has become necessary. Along with the development of the 3D printing technology and the continuous abundance of flexible materials meeting the 3D printing technology, the software robot is more convenient to manufacture, and the design flexibility is greatly improved. The soft body is usually made of soft body materials and flexible materials, can realize continuous deformation, has good safety and adaptability, and has great advantages in the aspects of grabbing fragile products, objects with irregular surface shapes, soft products and the like. However, in the existing soft clamping hand, soft fingers are generally fixed on the finger support frame, and the distance between the soft fingers is not adjustable; when an object is grabbed, the opening range of the soft fingers is limited, so that the size range of the grabbed object is limited to a certain extent, and the applicability is poor; meanwhile, the contact area between the soft fingers and the object is small, the grabbing force is small, the object is easy to fall off in the grabbing process, and the stability is poor.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
For solving the not enough that exists among the above-mentioned prior art, the utility model provides a pneumatic software centre gripping hand of variable scope of snatching and application method to it is limited to solve current centre gripping hand grabbing scope, and it is little to grab the power, poor stability, technical problem that application scope is little.
In order to solve the technical problem, the utility model discloses a following technical scheme realizes:
the utility model provides a pair of variable pneumatic software centre gripping hand that snatchs scope, include: a finger support frame and a plurality of soft fingers. The soft finger is fixed below the extending end of the support frame of the finger support frame on the corresponding side through the finger connecting piece, the extending end of the support frame is provided with a guide groove, and the finger connecting piece can translate in the guide groove; the soft finger consists of a large chamber and a small chamber which are not communicated with each other; the large chamber and the small chamber are corrugated cavities formed by a plurality of large air bags and small air bags which are uniformly distributed.
Preferably, the large chamber and the small chamber are respectively provided with an air inlet, and the large chamber and the small chamber are respectively controlled by an air source. Furthermore, the extension end of the support frame is fixedly connected with the finger connecting piece through threads, and the finger connecting piece is fixedly connected with the soft finger through a bolt.
Preferably, the soft finger is made of flexible materials.
Preferably, the large chamber is composed of 12 large air bags, and the small chamber is composed of 9 small air bags.
Preferably, four soft fingers are uniformly distributed around the finger support frame.
Preferably, when the large chamber of the soft finger is pumped, the large air sac is attached, and the soft finger is opened outwards; when the small chamber is inflated, the small air bags expand and extrude each other, and the soft fingers stretch to the upper part of the grabbed object;
when the big chamber of the soft finger is inflated, the big air bags are expanded and mutually extruded, and the soft finger is bent inwards; when the small cavity is pumped, the small air bag is attached, and the soft fingers grab the object;
when the large cavity of the soft finger is pumped, the large air sac is attached, and the soft finger is bent outwards; when the small chambers are inflated, the small air bags expand and squeeze each other, and the soft fingers release the object.
Preferably, when air pressure is input into the small chamber, the soft fingers open outwards.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses following beneficial effect has:
the utility model provides a pneumatic software centre gripping hand of variable gripping scope, including finger support frame and a plurality of software fingers, the software finger is fixed below the support frame extension end of corresponding one side through a finger connecting piece, again to the support frame extension end on the finger support frame on install the guide slot, can let the finger connecting piece make a round trip to translate in the guide slot, can the independent control software finger in the position of support frame extension end, thereby adjust the interval between the software finger, in order to adapt to different snatching objects, make the software finger reach the best snatching position; the corrugated large chamber and the corrugated small chamber are arranged on the soft finger, and then the large air bag and the small air bag of the large chamber and the small chamber are inflated and exhausted, so that the grabbing force can be increased when an object is grabbed, the soft paw is not easy to fall off in the process of grabbing the object, the object grabbing and releasing are realized, and the outward stretching degree of the soft finger is enhanced, so that the grabbing object with different sizes is adapted. The utility model provides a variable pneumatic software centre gripping hand that snatchs scope through adjusting the position of finger connecting piece on the guide slot, adjusts the distance that the software finger shifted to the outside to realize the software finger to the open degree in the outside, with the object of snatching of adaptation equidimension not, the big gasbag and the little gasbag atmospheric pressure size of reunion big cavity and little cavity realize snatching and releasing the object.
Furthermore, the large chamber and the small chamber are respectively provided with an air inlet and are respectively controlled by an air source, so that the small chamber can be pumped while the large chamber is inflated, the object can be grabbed, the bending degree of the soft fingers is increased, the clamping hand has more stability when grabbing the object, and the object can be grabbed more firmly.
Further, the finger connecting piece is fixedly connected with the extension end of the support frame through a bolt, the finger connecting piece is fixedly connected with the soft fingers through screws, the position of the finger connecting piece at the extension end can be adjusted through the bolt, the distance between the soft fingers is further adjusted, the grabbing range is changed, and therefore the grabbing objects in different sizes are adapted.
Furthermore, the soft finger is manufactured by a photocuring printing technology and a flexible material, so that the damage degree of the soft finger to an object can be reduced in the process of grabbing the object.
Furthermore, the large chamber is composed of 12 large air bags, the small chamber is composed of 9 small air bags, and the number of the large air bags and the small air bags can increase the outward expansion range of fingers and increase the grabbing force when a clamping hand grabs an object.
Furthermore, four soft fingers are uniformly distributed on the periphery of the finger support frame, so that the soft fingers can be fully contacted with an object in the grabbing process, the object is not easy to fall off, and the grabbing effect is stable and reliable.
Further, the large cavity of the soft finger is pumped, the large air sac is attached, and the soft finger is opened outwards; the small chambers are inflated, the small air bags expand and are mutually extruded, and the soft fingers are controlled to be opened above the grabbed objects.
Preferably, the big chambers of the soft fingers are inflated, the big air bags expand and are mutually squeezed, and the soft fingers bend inwards; the small cavity is pumped, the small air bag is attached, and the soft fingers are controlled to grab the object.
Preferably, the large cavity of the soft finger is pumped, the large air sac is attached, and the soft finger is bent outwards; the small chambers are inflated, the small air bags expand and are mutually extruded, and the soft fingers are controlled to release objects.
Preferably, the small chamber is filled with air pressure, and the soft body fingers open outwards.
Preferably, the distance between the soft fingers is adjusted by adjusting the position of the finger connecting piece in the guide groove, the large cavity of the soft finger is pumped, the large air sac is attached, and the soft finger is opened outwards; inflating the small chambers, expanding the small air bags and mutually extruding the small air bags, increasing the outward opening degree of the soft fingers, and controlling the soft fingers to open above the grabbed object;
inflating the big chamber of the soft finger, and extruding the big air bags by expansion to bend the soft finger inwards; the small cavity is pumped, the small air bag is attached, the bending degree of the soft finger is increased, and the object is grabbed;
pumping air into the large cavity of the soft finger to attach the large air sac, so that the soft finger is bent outwards; the small chambers are inflated, the small air bags expand and are mutually extruded, the degree of outward opening of the soft fingers is increased, and the object is released.
Furthermore, when the small chamber is input with air pressure, the soft fingers are all opened outwards, and the larger the value of the input air pressure to the small chamber is, the larger the opening range of the soft fingers to the outside is.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a pneumatic soft gripper with variable gripping range according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the inner structure of the soft finger of the pneumatic soft gripper with variable gripping range according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the deformation of a soft finger with a small chamber under 20 kPa;
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the simulation of the deformation of a soft finger with a small chamber under the pressure of 30 kPa;
FIG. 5 is a simulation diagram of the deformation of a soft finger under the pressure of 40kPa in a small chamber.
Wherein: 1-finger support; 2-bolt; 3-a finger connector; 4-a screw; 5-soft fingers; 6-large chamber; 7-a small chamber; 8-a guide groove; 9-an air inlet; 10-big air bag; 11-a small air bag; 12-support frame extension end.
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The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and the following detailed description.
Referring to fig. 1-2, the utility model provides a pneumatic soft body centre gripping hand of variable scope of snatching, includes: a finger support 1 and a soft finger 5. Two sides of the support frame extension end 12 on the finger support frame 1 are respectively provided with a guide groove 8; the finger connecting piece 3 is used for connecting the finger support frame 1 and the soft finger 5; the soft finger 5 is fixed on the finger connecting piece 3 through a thread 4; the soft finger 5 is composed of a large chamber 6 and a small chamber 7, the large chamber 6 is composed of large air bags 10 which are uniformly distributed, the small chamber 7 is composed of small air bags 11 which are uniformly distributed, the large chamber 6 and the small chamber 7 are not communicated with each other, and an air inlet 9 is arranged.
As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the overall structure of a pneumatic soft gripper with variable gripping range comprises: a finger support frame 1 and a plurality of soft fingers 5. The soft fingers 5 can be installed on the support frame extension ends 12 on the finger support frame 1, and two sides of each support frame extension end 12 are respectively provided with a guide groove 8 for adjusting the positions of the soft fingers 5. Finger connecting piece 3 passes through bolt 2 to be fixed on the extension of support frame 1 is served, can adjust finger connecting piece 3 in the position of extension end through bolt 2, and then adjust the interval between software finger 5 to the object is snatched in adaptation different sizes. The soft finger 5 is fixed on the finger connecting piece 3 through the screw thread 4. The pneumatic soft clamping hand with the variable grabbing range in the embodiment has four soft fingers 5 which are respectively connected to the support frame extending ends 12 of the finger support frame 1. The soft finger 5 is composed of a large chamber 6 and a small chamber 7, the large chamber 6 and the small chamber 7 are in a corrugated pipe shape, the two chambers are not communicated with each other, each chamber is provided with an air inlet 9, the large chamber 6 is composed of 12 large air bags 10, and the small chamber 7 is composed of 9 small air bags 11. When the large chamber 6 is pumped, the large air bag 10 can be attached to bend the soft fingers 5 outwards, meanwhile, the small chamber 7 is inflated, the small air bags 11 can be expanded and extruded mutually, the outward opening degree of the soft fingers 5 can be further enhanced while releasing articles, and therefore the opening range of the soft fingers 5 can be controlled by adjusting the air pressure of the small chamber 7 to adapt to grabbing objects of different sizes. Similarly, when inflating big cavity 6, big gasbag 10 can take place to expand and extrude each other, makes the inside side bending of software finger 5, realizes snatching article, simultaneously, bleeds to little cavity 7, and little gasbag 11 can take place the laminating, further strengthens the inside side bending degree of software finger 5 to the reinforcing dynamics of snatching makes and snatchs more firm.
As shown in fig. 3-5, finite element software was used to perform simulation modeling on the soft finger to study the effect of the small chamber 7 on the outward opening of the soft finger 5.
As shown in fig. 3, when the air pressure of 20kPa is input to the small chamber 7, the degree of outward opening of the soft finger is large; as shown in fig. 4, when the air pressure of 30kPa is input to the small chamber 7, the degree of outward opening of the soft finger is large; as shown in fig. 5, when the air pressure of 40kPa is input to the small chamber 7, the degree of outward opening of the soft finger is large;
the simulation result shows that the larger the air pressure value input by the small chamber 7 is, the larger the outward opening amplitude of the soft finger 5 is. Therefore, different air pressure values are applied to the small chamber, the outward opening range of the soft fingers can be increased, and the object can be effectively grabbed according to different size ranges.
The utility model provides a pair of realize above-mentioned variable pneumatic software centre gripping hand's of scope of snatching method, including following step:
the method comprises the following steps: adjusting the bolt 2 of the fixed finger connecting piece 3 loose, and further adjusting the distance between the soft fingers 5 to enable the soft fingers 5 to reach the optimal grabbing position;
step two: pumping air into the large chambers 6 of the four soft fingers 5 to expand the soft fingers 5 outwards, and simultaneously inflating the small chambers 7 to further adjust the expansion range of the soft fingers 5 so as to adapt to grabbing objects with different sizes, and finally controlling the soft fingers 5 to be expanded to the position of pre-grabbing action;
step three: after the soft fingers 5 are opened to the pre-grabbing action position, inflating the large chambers 6 of the four soft fingers 5 to bend the soft fingers 5 inwards, and simultaneously exhausting air to the small chambers 7 to further enhance the bending degree of the soft fingers 5 inwards, so that the grabbing strength is enhanced, the grabbing is firmer, and the grabbing of the object is finally completed;
step four: the grabbing and releasing of the objects with different sizes are completed in a circulating reciprocating mode. The above contents are only for explaining the technical idea of the present invention, and the protection scope of the present invention cannot be limited thereby, and any modification made on the basis of the technical solution according to the technical idea of the present invention all fall within the protection scope of the claims of the present invention.
The above contents are only for explaining the technical idea of the present invention, and the protection scope of the present invention cannot be limited thereby, and any modification made on the basis of the technical solution according to the technical idea of the present invention all fall within the protection scope of the claims of the present invention.

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1. The pneumatic soft clamping hand with the variable grabbing range is characterized by comprising a finger support frame (1) and a plurality of soft fingers (5), wherein each soft finger (5) is fixed below a support frame extending end (12) of the finger support frame (1) on one corresponding side through a finger connecting piece (3), a guide groove (8) is formed in the support frame extending end (12), and the finger connecting piece (3) can translate in the guide groove (8);
the soft finger (5) consists of a large chamber (6) and a small chamber (7), and the large chamber (6) and the small chamber (7) are not communicated with each other;
the large chamber (6) is a corrugated cavity formed by a plurality of large air bags (10) which are uniformly distributed;
the small chamber (7) is a corrugated cavity formed by a plurality of small air bags (11) which are uniformly distributed.
2. The pneumatic soft gripper with variable gripping range according to claim 1, wherein the large chamber (6) and the small chamber (7) are each provided with an air inlet (9), and the large chamber (6) and the small chamber (7) are each independently controlled by an air source.
3. The pneumatic soft clamping hand with the variable grabbing range according to claim 1, wherein the finger connecting piece (3) and the support frame extension end (12) are fixedly connected through a bolt (2), and the finger connecting piece (3) and the soft finger (5) are fixedly connected through a screw (4).
4. The pneumatic soft gripper hand with variable gripping range according to claim 1, characterized in that the soft fingers (5) are made of flexible material.
5. The pneumatic soft gripper with variable gripping range according to claim 1, characterized in that the large chamber (6) is composed of 12 large air cells (10) and the small chamber (7) is composed of 9 small air cells (11).
6. The pneumatic soft gripper with variable gripping range according to claim 1, wherein four soft fingers (5) are uniformly distributed around the finger support (1).
7. The pneumatic soft gripper with variable gripping range according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein when the large chamber (6) of the soft finger (5) is evacuated, the large air bag (10) is attached, and the soft finger (5) is opened outwards; when the small chamber (7) is inflated, the small air bags (11) are expanded and mutually extruded, and the soft fingers (5) are expanded above the grabbed object;
when the large chamber (6) of the soft finger (5) is inflated, the large air bags (10) are expanded and mutually extruded, and the soft finger (5) is bent inwards; when the small chamber (7) is pumped, the small air bag (11) is attached, and the soft finger (5) grabs an object;
when the large chamber (6) of the soft finger (5) is evacuated, the large air bag (10) is attached, and the soft finger (5) is bent outwards; when the small chamber (7) is inflated, the small air bags (11) are expanded and mutually pressed, and the soft finger (5) releases the object.
8. The pneumatic soft gripper hand with variable gripping range according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the soft fingers (5) are opened outwards when air pressure is input into the small chamber (7).
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