Vorbild für den Greifer ist die komplexe Kinematik des Vogelschnabels. Auf die Technik übertragen wird das bionische Prinzip als Watt’sche Kette bezeichnet, die beim PowerGripper mithilfe zweier Fluidic Muscles vom Typ DMSP-5 umgesetzt ist.
The PowerGripper is a university project within the Bionic Learning Network. Together with renowned educational institutions, institutes and development companies, we investigate the transfer of biological principles to technology in order to develop innovative solutions for industrial practice.
The PowerGripper concept was based on a lecture by Dr Martin Fischer, Professor of Special Zoology and Evolutionary Biology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. In his lecture on the topic of gripping systems in biology, he dealt with the complex kinematics of a bird’s beak, which had previously been described by Dr Cornelius Schilling and Dr Klaus Zimmermann, both from the Technical University of Ilmenau, in 1994.