Soft Gripper with EGaIn Soft Sensor for Detecting Grasp Status

With the Fourth Industrial Revolution, many factories aim for efficient mass production, and robots are being used to reduce human workloads. In recent years, the field of gripper robots with a soft structure that can grip and move objects without damaging them has attracted considerable attention. This paper proposes a variable-stiffness soft gripper, based on previous designs, with an added silicone coating for increased friction and an EGaIn soft sensor for monitoring grip forces. The variable-stiffness structure used in this study was constructed by connecting soft structures to rigid structures and using tendons fixed to the rigid structures. Furthermore, a more responsive EGaIn soft sensor compared to existing sensors was designed by adding bumps to the path traced by the alloy. After selecting the appropriate fingertip shape, changes in the output of the EGaIn soft sensor corresponding to the object held by the soft gripper were observed, confirming that the strength of the device could be changed according to the intended purpose.

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THE (UNKNOWN) IMPACT OF THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN EDUCATION

Tạp chí Nghiên cứu dân tộc ◽

10.25073/0866-773x/96 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Marco Neves

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Mass Production ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Social Economic ◽

Cyber Physical Systems ◽

Physical Systems ◽

The Third ◽

Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽

Time Machines ◽

First Time

Today we are living in the cusp of a new industrial revolution that differs from all the previous ones. It´s been coined as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR) at the 2011 Hannover Fair. The first industrial revolution powered mainly by the steam engine, the second one by the advent of electrification, mass production and division of labor and the third one by the upcoming of internet, computers, networks and digital machines. What differs the FIR from all the others is that this one is on the edge of artificial intelligence, digital ubiquity, cyber-physical systems and even on the way to “Singularity”: where for the first time machines acquired capabilities that we only consider possible in humans. This means that we are fencing tremendous changes in what concerns to all the aspects of life, i.e. social, economic, cultural and, collaterally, in labor market.

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Análise da Indústria 4.0 como Elemento Rompedor na Administração de Produção

Future Studies Research Journal Trends and Strategies ◽

10.24023/futurejournal/2175-5825/2019.v11i1.381 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 48-64

Author(s):

Ismael Luiz Dos Santos ◽

Ruan Carlos Dos Santos ◽

Daniel de Souza Silva Junior

Keyword(s):

Mass Production ◽

Industry 4.0 ◽

Production Management ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Industrial Processes ◽

Production Lines ◽

Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽

The World ◽

History Approach ◽

Management Thinking

The First Industrial Revolution potentiated the power of production through the steam engine, the Second Industrial Revolution, through steel and electricity, gave life to mass production. A Third Revolution can be attributed to the electronic automation of production lines and now, according to SCHWAB (2016), the world is witnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution based on the digitization of industrial processes. This article takes a history approach of production management thinking demonstrating its evolution over seven periods. Through a bibliographical research will be presented the main elements that make up the Industry 4.0. In addition to analyzing its impact on the seventh period of Production Management.

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Energy, transport, and consumption in the Industrial Revolution

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19000153 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Joseph A. Tainter ◽

Temis G. Taylor

Keyword(s):

Mass Production ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Energy Transport ◽

Underlying Assumption

Abstract We question Baumard's underlying assumption that humans have a propensity to innovate. Affordable transportation and energy underpinned the Industrial Revolution, making mass production/consumption possible. Although we cannot accept Baumard's thesis on the Industrial Revolution, it may help explain why complexity and innovation increase rapidly in the context of abundant energy.

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