Vision system and flexible robot hand for cloth handling robot system

Author

Hata, Seiji ; Hiroyasu, Takehisa ; Hayashi, Jun´ichiro ; Hojoh, Hirotaka ; Hamada, Toshihiro

Author_Institution

Kagawa Univ., Takamatsu

fYear

2008

Firstpage

692

Lastpage

697

Abstract

Flexible objects such as clothes are hard to be handled by robots. But the working conditions for laundry factories are severe because of dusts, heats and steams. To automate these factories, 3D vision systems are dispensable to recognize the 3D shape of flexible clothes. Here, 3D robot vision systems with stereo cameras and a pattern projector have been introduced to apply the cloth handlings, and a cloth handling robot system has been developed. In this paper, the 3D robot vision systems and the cloth handling robot system with a flexible robot hand has been introduced.

Keywords

clothing; flexible manipulators; laundering; robot vision; shape recognition; stereo image processing; 3D robot vision system; 3D shape recognition; cloth handling robot system; flexible robot hand; laundry factory automation; pattern projector; stereo camera; Cameras; Machine vision; Pressing; Production facilities; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Robotics and automation; Sensor systems; Service robots; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Automation and Systems, 2008. ICCAS 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-89-950038-9-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-89-93215-01-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCAS.2008.4694590

Filename

4694590