I am an undergraduate student who currently enroll in my study at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia.
I was currently in a FYP project of building an autonomous battery-swapping station for the drone Mavic 2 Enterprise Dual. Currently, the only robotics arm my uni manages to provide me is uArm Swift Pro. Here are some questions I came across when designing the station using uArm.
(PS: The pandemic situation had delay all the delivery within my country. In short, I dun really have the uArm and drone beside me at this point, the step file provided by customer service are can’t help much on my design tho.)
Did any of u ever self-design a gripper for the Arm before using 3D printing? If yes may I have some guide on it?
The battery weighs 297g, located 300mm away from the base of the arm. Does the arm have enough torque grab it up?
I do realize that there is a gripper model from Ufactory.
What I trying to say is that can we customize one for it. Like 3D printing a gripper and attach it to the end effector or purchasing a third party gripper and attach to it. The one-point grabbing design is a bit off when trying to grab a Mavic battery without rotating it. Instead, I would more prefer to build a multipoint grabbing design similar to this. Hence, i was trying to look for person who had experiences in such topic.