Festo_BionicSoftArm

Technical data • Diameter: 80 mm • Length of bellows segments: 150 mm • Length of rotary drives: 150 mm • Maximum overall length: . . . . . 1050 mm • Maximum degrees of freedom: . . up to 7 • Dead weight of bellows segments: . 500 g • Dead weight of rotary drives: . . . 750 g • Working pressure: up to 6 bar • Repetition accuracy: . . . . . . 5 mm Software architecture: • User interface: Festo Robotic Suite • Calculation and path planning: . . Robot Operating System (ROS) • Control and regulation: Festo Motion Terminal VTEM Sensor technology: • Sensitec FreePitch sensors AA700, based on anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) • Heidenhain EBI 1135 encoder • Fujikura XFGM pressure sensors Actuator technology: • Pneumatic bellows segments made of natural rubber with high- strength 3D textile knitted fabric • Modified rotary axes based on the DRVS semi-rotary drive Project participants Project initiator: Dr Wilfried Stoll, managing partner Festo Holding GmbH Project management: Karoline von Häfen, Dr Elias Knubben, Festo AG & Co. KG Idea and concept: Prof. Dieter Mankau, Frankfurt am Main Project team: Annika Mayer, Adrian Raisch, Daniel Müller, Institute for System Dynamics (ISYS), University of Stuttgart Mirko Zobel, Ebert Zobel Industrial Design GbR, Frankfurt am Main Dr Alexander Hildebrandt, Mart Moerdijk, Timo Schwarzer, Sebastian Schrof, Philipp Steck, Christian Schweizer, Micha Purucker, Andreas Gause, Festo AG & Co. KG Textile technology: Walter Wörner, Gesellschaft für textilen Service mbH, Pfullingen Festo AG & Co. KG Ruiter Strasse 82 73734 Esslingen Germany Phone +49 711 347-0 Fax +49 711 347-21 55 cc@festo.com www.festo.com/bionics fesd020 en 3/2019