Online weight estimation in a robotic gripper arm

Abstract

This paper presents a novel methodology for online, fast and accurate weight estimation technique in a robotic gripper arm. The laboratory setup is inspired from several real life applications of weight estimation in moving cranes, e.g. loading containers in a shipyard, iron scrapping in steel industry, etc. The weight needs to be estimated within a specified time interval and within a tolerance interval for accuracy. The results indicate that the proposed method is suitable for this kind of application and an improvement of 30% has been achieved compared to the current state of work.