Tendon-driven soft robotic gripper for blackberry harvesting

AL Gunderman, JA Collins, AL Myers… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Global berry production and consumption have significantly increased in recent years,
coinciding with increased consumer awareness of the health-promoting benefits of berries …

Systems, devices, components, and methods for a compact robotic gripper with palm-mounted sensing, grasping, and computing devices and components

NJ Correll, AK Miller, B Romero - US Patent 11,148,295, 2021 - Google Patents
Disclosed are various embodiments of a three-dimensional perception and object
manipulation robot gripper configured for connection to and operation in conjunction with a …

Robot control apparatus, robot control method, robot system, and storage medium

D Yamada, K Kobayashi, M Suzuki… - US Patent 10,800,033, 2020 - Google Patents
A robot control apparatus for controlling a robot manipulating a target object includes a
measurement unit configured to measure a change of a gripping unit configured to grip the …

Robotic gripper with driven belts

PV Phan, B Ritoper, L Anderson - US Patent 10,464,217, 2019 - Google Patents
An apparatus including a base, a plurality of fingers coupled to the base and arranged to
define a containment area, where each finger includes a mechanical assembly defining a …

Tagging of fruit-producing flowers for robotic selective harvesting

MA Stubbs, KJF McCloskey - US Patent 9,532,508, 2017 - Google Patents
The locations of flowers on a plant, rather than the locations of agricultural products
produced from Such flowers, are used to facilitate the performance of harvesting and other …

A time and motion study for evaluation of apple harvest processes with different harvest methods

Z Zhang, R Lu, C Igathinathane - Transactions of the ASABE, 2020 - elibrary.asabe.org
Highlights Workers 'apple harvest processes with three harvest methods were evaluated
and compared. All three harvest methods had low overall harvest efficiency. Harvest …

Current Status of Patent Research on Picking End Effector

X Wu, B Xie - Recent Patents on Engineering, 2024 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Fruit and vegetable picking, as the most important part of fruit and vegetable
production, is a labor-intensive industry. Fruit and vegetable picking robots can effectively …

Robot end effector control

R Wilson - US Patent 10,406,685, 2019 - Google Patents
Techniques are provided for achieving stable tracking and/or manipulation by robots of
objects. In various implementations, it may be detected, based on force signal (s) from force …

Tagging of fruit-producing flowers for robotic selective harvesting

MA Stubbs, KJF McCloskey - US Patent 9,913,429, 2018 - Google Patents
The locations of flowers on a plant, rather than the locations of agricultural products
produced from such flowers, are used to facilitate the performance of harvesting and other …

Gripper with tunable compliance for dexterous object manipulation

RR Knopf, JA Lessing, JA Chrisos - US Patent 11,647,692, 2023 - Google Patents
Harvesting tools are disclosed which may comprise a gripper including a set of finger
elements constructed and arranged to envelop a target object pertaining to agricultural …