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In the robotic grasping process, the mechanical damage mainly depends upon the aggressiveness of the gripper and the sensitivity of the product to the damage. In this study, a flexible gripper integrated with multi-sensor network is designed and tested. The network proposed includes three kinds of sensors that enable the gripper to grasp various products with the sense of touch and visual perception. Particular attention has been attached to the sensors applied between the fingers, and this makes sensing and grasping capabilities improved. To create an accurate grasping system, a grasping algorithm and the force control model are proposed for any bending state based on Cosserat theory. The boundary detection is included in the grasping algorithm, detecting the shape edge by some certain point calculation. The created grasping system guarantees mechanical compliance by evaluating and adjusting the finger status including force, angle, and direction. Multi-group tests have been done on grasping several objects of different sizes and materials in daily life. The relationship between force, bending, and surface material is also analyzed and compared under different conditions. The numerical comparisons related to the measurement error are analyzed based on their standard deviations. Experimental results indicate that this flexible manipulator with proposed system and strategy has better grasping ability for fragile fruits with its good flexibility and dexterity.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20174973","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,2]],"date-time":"2020-09-02T09:29:28Z","timestamp":1599038968000},"page":"4973","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["An Integrated Multi-Sensor Network for Adaptive Grasping of Fragile Fruits: Design and Feasibility Tests"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Yuanxin","family":"Xie","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Baohua","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuhao","family":"Bai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Meng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Wang, X., Zhao, Y., Xiao, Y., Zhu, Y., and Wang, Y. 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