Embodied computation in soft gripper
Paper in proceeding, 2014

We designed, created and tested an underactuated soft gripper able to hold everyday objects of various shapes and sizes without using complex hardware or control algorithms, but rather by combining sheets of flexible plastic materials and a single servo motor. Starting with a prototype where simple actuation performs complex varied gripping operations solely through the material system and its inherent physical computation, the paper discusses how embodied computation might exist in a material aggregate by tuning and balancing its morphology and material properties.

gripper

Robotics

Material aggregate

Author

Stig Anton Nielsen

Chalmers, Architecture, Architectural theory and methods

Alexandru Dancu

Chalmers, Applied Information Technology (Chalmers), Interaction design

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

21672148 (eISSN)

256-257

Driving Forces

Innovation and entrepreneurship

Subject Categories

Textile, Rubber and Polymeric Materials

Robotics

DOI

10.1145/2559636.2563691

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