Automatic gripping device - robot head - for picking, gripping, moving and releasing objects, in particular fruit

摘要

The invention relates to a robot device which is able to change its location, under the effect of the movement of an arm carrying the device, under the effect of the signals which are transmitted and received by the built-in transceivers - TV camera, ultrasonic distance-measuring device, radar parabolic antenna - and evaluated by a central computer. Furthermore, by moving its gripping fingers by means of electric motor, hydraulic motor or air motor built into the device and capable of providing rotation to the left and right, the robot device is able to grasp objects, hold them pressed together, move them, tear them off by rotating about the vertical axis and release them. The device can advantageously be used as a work-performing element of a basic fruit-picking machine which moves on the ground. The device is fixed to an actuating arm with the aid of bolts and functions on the basis of the signal command of the computer in such a way that the electric motor, by means of gear transmission, presses together the gripping fingers moving on the bolts, with the result that the object is gripped, then after several revolutions torn off its stem and upon a subsequent signal placed into a crate. <IMAGE>