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This paper describes the design of a gripper for grasping and manipulating horticulture products. The design solution has been achieved by means of a systematic approach, by evaluating all the possible architectures to get an optimal one. The proposed structure is numerically designed and simulated and then a prototype has been built and successfully tested in laboratory.
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The first author has spent a period of study within Erasmus program in 2015 at RWTH Aachen University that is gratefully acknowledged.
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Russo, M., Ceccarelli, M., Corves, B., Hüsing, M., Lorenz, M., Carbone, G. (2017). Design, Construction and Testing of a Gripper for Horticulture Products. In: Rodić, A., Borangiu, T. (eds) Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control. RAAD 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 540. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49058-8_13
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