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Based on the swallowing-type soft gripper proposed in previous work, this study explores the gripper\u2019s capability to perceive object information by leveraging the characteristic that the sealed cavity undergoes volume change due to compression by the object during swallowing, thereby altering the pressure of the internal fluid medium. By establishing the geometric configuration of the sealed cavity composed of elastic membranes, the volume-pressure variation sensing model during the object swallowing process was derived. The performance of this sensing method was tested, and the application of the fluid pressure sensing strategy in closed-loop control was demonstrated, including the classification of objects by shape and sorting by size. 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