In recent years, robotic gripper is widely used for different tasks in various

fields. Grippers operate with industrial robots for handling and manipulation of
objects. Grippers also operate with hard automation for assembling; micro
assembling, machining and packaging. In this paper, a smart robotic gripper is
designed and developed with vision sensor for industrial applications. This vision
sensor is employed to detect the presence of the object and send the information to
the robot. Gripper with two fingers has been proposed. This smart gripper adopts
force sensor that mounted into the finger tip in order to control the force applied
when working with wide range of objects that having different weight without
slipping or crushing it. Four servo motors are used to drive the four degree of
freedom (D. O. F) of a robotic arm. Basic Stamp 2 microcontroller (BS2) is used as
a controller unit to control the position and the movement of the smart gripper. A
series of experiment shows that the proposed system is able to detect the present
of the object and send the information/command directly to the robot to execute
grasping and lifting phase of the object to the desired location that has been
assigned.
A robotic gripper is developed for universal use of gripping small objects. This
robotic gripper is a two-jointed three fingered grasper. Its three fingers have
synchronous mobility as driven by the sole DC motor. The upper joint of each finger
is driven by the lower joint by purely mechanism; no extra actuator is required.
This gripper is designed as driven by only one actuator at the palm. It is non-back
drivable but programmable.