Syddansk Universitet

Terma A/s

Nlr - Netherlands Aerospace Centre

Technicon Aps

Lars-Peter Ellekilde

Ole Wennerberg Nielsen

Henrik Gordon Petersen

Casper Hansen

Jakob Rømsgaard

André Alexander Westergaard

Asger Bloksma Krogstrup

Phillippe Lovejoy-courrier

Johannes Cornelis De Kruijk

Gudmundur Geir Gunnarsson

Jesper Freltoft

Asim Ikram

An end effector for handling a sheet of flexible material. The end effector includes a support frame and manipulator assemblies, each attached to the support frame by a support mount. The manipulator assemblies include a holding tool having a lifting surface. The manipulator assemblies include a linear actuator, and the holding tool is connected to the linear actuator by a multiaxial joint. A drive provides—the displacement of the holding tool by the linear actuator. The end effector includes resilient members each rigidly affixed to two adjacent holding tools and positioned in a space providing a mutual distance between opposing faces of the adjacent holding tools, where each holding tool is connected to—adjacent holding tools—by the resilient members. The resilient members are configured to non-permanently deform in the space when adjacent holding tools are displaced relative to each other along displacement axes.

End effector including resilient members between adjacent holding tools

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Odense, Denmark

Lars-Peter Ellekilde