IMPLEMENTING INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS ARMS FOR MATERIAL HOLDING PROCESS IN INDUSTRIES

Because of its high accuracy work and simplicity of carrying out heavy operations, the Articulated Robotic Arm was gaining a lot of traction in the industry. The modeling and study of an adaptable robotic arm that can be used for material management activities are the subject of this research. SOLIDWORKS® software was used to design and simulate the articulated robotic arm with an object handling effector. In the early stages of modeling, an examination such as research of the finite element approach would be extremely beneficial. The analysis' findings will reveal the design's strengths and weaknesses. The numerical simulation analysis was performed on the prototype of a robotic arm using the ANSYS® software workstation to investigate alternative components and loading situations. The findings of the investigation are examined to select the appropriate material and to ensure that the articulated robotic arm was feasible

An Opposite-Bending-and-Extension Soft Robotic Manipulator for Delicate Grasping in Shallow Water

Collecting seafood animals (such as sea cucumbers, sea echini, scallops, etc.) cultivated in shallow water (water depth: ~30 m) is a profitable and an emerging field that requires robotics for replacing human divers. Soft robotics have several promising features (e.g., safe contact with the objects, lightweight, etc.) for performing such a task. In this paper, we implement a soft manipulator with an opposite-bending-and-extension structure. A simple and rapid inverse kinematics method is proposed to control the spatial location and trajectory of the underwater soft manipulator's end effector. We introduce the actuation hardware of the prototype, and then characterize the trajectory and workspace. We find that the prototype can well track fundamental trajectories such as a line and an arc. Finally, we construct a small underwater robot and demonstrate that the underwater soft manipulator successfully collects multiple irregular shaped seafood animals of different sizes and stiffness at the bottom of the natural oceanic environment (water depth: ~10 m)