Design analysis of a flexible carton-folding system with multiple robotic fingers

Due to the complexity of cartons, a flexible system is required to identify and control a carton folding process. This paper focuses on the dextrous-folding space analysis of multiple robotic-fingers to identify a folding trajectory of carton. The paper investigates various gripping techniques in a flexible and non-rigid material handling process and proposes the design analysis of a new type of flexible carton-folding system with multiple robotic fingers (FCFSF), which is supposed to deal with different carton-folding tasks, The robotic finger is designed based on a well-conditioned workspace, and the folding task analysis is based on the reconfiguration between the workspace of multiple fingers and the workspace of a carton folding task.