The paper Three-Dimensional Printing of Cylindrical Nozzle Elements of Bernoulli Gripping Devices for Industrial Robots presents a comprehensive study of the prototype of Bernoulli gripping devices with a cylindrical nozzle, manufactured by FDM 3D printing.

This paper has been published as a collaboration between numerous professionals at different organisations, across for example the US, Ukraine, and Slovakia. Readers will note that at the end of the paper, that the work was supported in part by Better Factory, as well as DIH2, the US Department of State (DOS), Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), Exchange Visitor Program and Fulbright Grant.

Paper authors

– Roman Mykhailyshyn: Texas Robotics at the College of Natural Sciences and the Cockrell School of Engineering, The University Taxes at Austin, US, as well as the Department of Automation of Technological Processes and Manufacturing, Ternopil, Ukraine.

– František Duchoň: Institute of Robotics and Cybernetics, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovak Republic (Better Factory partner).

– Mykhailo Mykhailyshyn – Department of Information Science and Mathematical Modeling, Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University, Ternopil, Ukraine.

– Prof. Ann Majewicz Fey: Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, as well as the Department of Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, US.

More about the paper

  • Issue: Paper featured in a special issue of Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581), “Advanced Grasping and Motion Control Solutions”.
  • Academic Editor: Giuseppe Carbone
  • Published: 3 December 2022
  • Copyright: © 2022 by the authors.
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  • Open Access Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-6581/11/6/140