The selection and dimensioning of grippers have so far been done experience-based in most cases. As there are innumerable solutions for the gripping of a part, it is quite time consuming to find the optimal gripper for a specific part and task. However, there are few methodologies that apply this task, especially considering the flexibility of gripper systems. This paper suggests an approach how to automatically find the right gripper linking economical, flexibility and functional criteria.
The use of industrial grippers induces to deal with the system grippers are embedded in. Besides the gripper this includes the environment, the handling device the gripper is attached to, the task the gripper should perform and the part to be handled. All this domains form the system handling. The paper analyses this system using different methods of the field of structural complexity management. Objective is to identify the most important and most influential factors governing the system.
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