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<p>Edge tracing is considered important for deformable object manipulation in order to spread and reveal the original shape of an object before it can be sorted. This paper proposes a unique realtime path-planning tracing method for clothes manipulation by robots. Tracing in this paper context involves tracing the clothes edge, with the robot arm movement based on the calculated path and feedback from sensors. Using tracing method to find a second corner has been proven to be efficient in finding a second corner next to the first corner and not apposite it, resulting in the robot properly spreading the clothes. Adequate force control is also applied to the gripper during tracing so that it doesn't grip the clothes too hard or vice versa which can affect the performance of the robot. Vision sensor is used from time to time to check whether the static gripper has reached the second corner or not. Practical experiments were conducted to evaluate the proposed method. Experimental results have demonstrated the uniqueness and effectiveness of the proposed method.</p>
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Edge tracing is considered important for deformable object manipulation in order to spread and reveal the original shape of an object before it can be sorted. This paper proposes a unique realtime path-planning tracing method for clothes manipulation by robots. Tracing in this paper context involves tracing the clothes edge, with the robot arm movement based on the calculated path and feedback from sensors. Using tracing method to find a second corner has been proven to be efficient in finding a second corner next to the first corner and not apposite it, resulting in the robot properly spreading the clothes. Adequate force control is also applied to the gripper during tracing so that it doesn't grip the clothes too hard or vice versa which can affect the performance of the robot. Vision sensor is used from time to time to check whether the static gripper has reached the second corner or not. Practical experiments were conducted to evaluate the proposed method. Experimental results have demonstrated the uniqueness and effectiveness of the proposed method.

Real-Time Path Planning Tracing of Deformable Object by Robot

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Edge tracing is considered important for deformable object manipulation in order to spread and reveal the original shape of an object before it can be sorted....

Real-Time Path Planning Tracing of Deformable Object by Robot

Publié en ligne: 13 déc. 2017

Pages: 521 - 535

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-406

Mots clés
Home service robot, path-planning, deformable object manipulation, image processing, sensors

© 2010 Khairul Salleh Mohamed Sahari et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Real-Time Path Planning Tracing of Deformable Object by Robot

Publié en ligne: 13 déc. 2017

Pages: 521 - 535

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-406

Mots clésHome service robot, path-planning, deformable object manipulation, image processing, sensors

© 2010 Khairul Salleh Mohamed Sahari et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
Home service robot, path-planning, deformable object manipulation, image processing, sensors