Reibschlüssige Greifsysteme für die automatische Handhabung im Materialfluss

Abstract

The widely differing characteristics of piece goods often require a manual and labour-in¬tensive handling within the material flow. Typical activities are order-picking and sorting with a high share of manual handling like decollating, gripping, moving, stacking, rearranging, loading, etc. Innovative gripper systems for the handling of piece goods offer new potentials for further automation. One gripper concept includes the direct transmission of friction forces into the surface of the object to be gripped and use of these forces, e.g. as gripping force. When the friction values are good and the elements are arranged correctly objects can be gripped frictionally when they can be approached only from above or from the side, e.g. boxes in a composite packaging pattern on a pallet.