Download or read book Design and Modeling of Variable Stiffness Mechanisms Based on Layer Jamming for Robotic Applications written by Xianpai Zeng and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research is on the design of variable stiffness robotic gripper, that is, how variable stiffness gripper might be designed to for it to grasp light objects with low stiffness for the delicacy and grasp heavy objects with high stiffness for the strength. I break my work into three topics: (1) exploring how layer jamming works, (2) enhancing the performance of layer jamming mechanism by identifying all the sensitive design parameters, and (3) creating grippers equipped with layer jamming. The first of these aims to answer scientific questions, such as what are the fundamental mechanics that make layer jamming work. The second of these is to identify which design parameters contribute most to the stiffness change. And the third concerns the application of the optimized design guidelines.