Micro Gripper Kit with Position Feedback Servo

SKU: POLOLU-3551 Brand: Pololu

This small gripper uses a rack and pinion design with a servo-driven pinion and opposing racks to keep the gripper paddles synchronized and parallel to...

$43.10 AUD, inc GST

$39.18 AUD, exc GST

Available with a lead time
Expect dispatch between Mar 14 and Mar 17

Quantity Discounts:

10-25 $37.62 (exc GST)
25+ $36.44 (exc GST)

This small gripper uses a rack and pinion design with a servo-driven pinion and opposing racks to keep the gripper paddles synchronized and parallel to each other throughout its 32 mm range of motion. It includes a special micro servo with an additional wire that gives access to its feedback potentiometer, so you can track the actual position of the gripper paddles. This is the same gripper used in the Robot Arm Kit for Romi, and assembly instructions can be found in the Robot Arm Kit for Romi User’s Guide. Please note that the full range of the Micro Gripper requires servo control pulses between 0.5 ms (fully open) and 2.4 ms (fully closed), which is well beyond the standard hobby servo range 1 ms to 2 ms, so you should make sure your control electronics are capable of generating such signals if you care about getting the full range. Due to unit-to-unit variations in the servos, you might need to adjust these values for your particular gripper.

The servo is intended to be powered from 4.8 V to 6 V (nominal) battery packs or a suitable power supply in that general range, and it has a stall current of around 800 mA at 6 V. The feedback voltage ranges linearly from around 0.5 V (fully open) to 2.2 V (fully closed), meaning that there is an approximately 1:1 correspondence between servo position in microseconds and the feedback voltage in millivolts.

Dimensions of the Micro Gripper with Position Feedback Servo

This diagram is also available as a downloadable PDF (318k pdf).

Kit contents

One micro servo with position feedback
One top micro gripper case
One bottom micro gripper case
One micro gripper plate
One micro gripper pinion gear
Two micro gripper paddles with rack

People often buy this product together with:

Micro Maestro 6-Channel USB Servo Controller (Assembled)

Pololu USB AVR Programmer v2.1

Robot Arm Kit for Romi

Dimensions

Weight:	30 g

General specifications

Color:	black
Lead length:	38 cm

Documentation and other information

User’s guide for the Robot Arm Kit for Romi

Assembly instructions and user’s manual for the Robot Arm Kit for Romi. (This also contains the assembly instructions for the Micro Gripper Kit, which is included as part of the Romi Arm Kit but is also a standalone product.)

File downloads

Dimension diagram of the Micro Gripper with Position Feedback Servo (318k pdf)
3D model of the assembled Micro Gripper Kit with Position Feedback Servo (7MB step)

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