Experimental verification of design automation methods for robotic finger

Abstract

Design automation of industrial grippers is a hot research topic for robot industries. However, literature lacks a standard experimental method to enable researchers to validate their approaches. Thus, this paper proposes a generic experimental method to verify existing finger design approaches. The introduced method is utilized to validate the methods Generic Automated Finger Design (GAFD), Manually Designed Fingers (MDF) and the eGrip tool. Experimental results are compared and the strengths and weaknesses of each method are presented.