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Table 2 Overview of various publications for the membrane influences on gripping forces for granular grippers with information regarding the varied membrane as well as the experimental approach with the number of repetitions for each object (trial size) as well as number of investigated grasped object geometries (shape count)

From: Experimental assessment and prediction of design parameter influences on a specific vacuum-based granular gripper

Publication

Variation of membranes

Experimental approach/

Results

Refs.

Author

Year

Shape

Material type

Trial size

Shape count

Std

Dev

Max force

[34]

Jiang et al.

2014

–

Vitrile, Vinyl, Nitrile, Latex and Polythene

3

–

–

–

[23]

Amend et al.

2016

Various

Rubbers, Silicones and Polyurethanes

–

7

–

Up to 90 N

[35]

Howard et al.

2022

Various

–

5

4

–

Up to 30 N