%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Fluid Dynamics Aided Design of an Innovative Micro-Gripper
%+ Institute of Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing [Milano] (STIIMA-CNR)
%+ Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering [Brescia]
%A Fontana, Gianmauro
%A Ruggeri, Serena
%A Ghidoni, Antonio
%A Morelli, Alessandro
%A Legnani, Giovanni
%A Lezzi, Adriano, Maria
%A Fassi, Irene
%Z Part 5: Gripping and Handling Solutions in Assembly
%< avec comité de lecture
%( IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
%B 8th International Precision Assembly Seminar (IPAS)
%C Chamonix, France
%Y Svetan Ratchev
%I Springer International Publishing
%3 Precision Assembly in the Digital Age
%V AICT-530
%P 214-225
%8 2018-01-14
%D 2018
%R 10.1007/978-3-030-05931-6_19
%K Vacuum micro-gripper
%K Fluid dynamic simulations
%K Micro-gripper design
%Z Computer Science [cs]Conference papers
%X The increasing miniaturization of more and more systems and products is supporting the necessity to develop and handle micro-objects and micro-assembling tools. However, in comparison to bigger scale systems, micro-scale tasks undergo greater challenges due to the effect of unwanted sticking forces whose relative value may be predominant at the micro-scale. Systems to overcome these limiting factors have to be specifically developed to enable an effective and successful manipulation. In the case of contact micro-grippers, specific additional devices or manipulating strategies are used to assure the success of the release phase. In this context, this paper presents an innovative vacuum micro-gripper with a low-cost and simple automatic releasing device which can effectively overcome the adhesive forces. The paper, after illustrating the working principle of the gripper, discusses the preliminary results of a first computational fluid dynamics model useful to represent the main gripper characteristics and able to support a design procedure.
%G English
%Z TC 5
%Z WG 5.5
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%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-02115837
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