Multimaterial Claw By 3D Printing, Silicone Molding
Center for Advanced Manufacturing, July 2023 - August 2023
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What?
● A project to create a multi-material claw gripper that can be used for agriculture and food processing industries
● Viterbi Summer Institute 2023 Research Project at the USC Center for Advanced Manufacturing
How?
● PTC OnShape for part design and iteration
● 3D Printing with PLA for initial prototypes, Silicone Molding soft claw parts
● Utilized COMSOL Topology Optimization and Stress Analysis for best placement of softer and stiffer materials.
Results:
● Successful manufacturing of 5 iterations of claw gripper, picking up small objects 68-80mm away from gripper
● Single material claw gripper outperformed multi-material claw gripper
● Learned key concepts of design reiteration, utilized in future portfolio projects
Research Symposium Poster for Multimaterial Claw. Created all of poster except for Linear Stage Coding
PDF Manqi Li, Yeowon Yoon - Bolanos, Vargas - Multimaterial Claw By Additive Manufacturing Poster.pdfPage updated
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