Het voorbeeld voor de grijper is de complexe kinematica van de vogelsnavel. Op de techniek toegepast wordt het bionisch principe aangeduid als Watt’s koppeling, die bij de PowerGripper met behulp van twee Fluidic Muscles van het type DMSP-5 is omgezet.
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.