Updated: Sep 19, 2015


Regrasping and Unfolding of Garments Using Predictive Thin Shell Modeling  

Yinxiao Li, Danfei Xu, Yonghao Yue, Yan Wang, Shih-Fu Chang, Eitan Grinspun, Peter K. Allen
Columbia University
Abstract:

Deformable objects such as garments are highly unstructured, making them difficult to recognize and manipulate. In this paper, we propose a novel method to teach a twoarm robot to efficiently track the states of a garment from an unknown state to a known state by iterative regrasping. The problem is formulated as a constrained weighted evaluation metric for evaluating the two desired grasping points during regrasping, which can also be used for a convergence criterion The result is then adopted as an estimation to initialize a regrasping, which is then considered as a new state for evaluation. The process stops when the predicted thin shell conclusively agrees with reconstruction. We show experimental results for regrasping a number of different garments including sweater, knitwear, pants, and leggings, etc.

Keywords:

Robotics, garment, regrasping, unfolding


Proc. IEEE ICRA 2015, pp.1382-1388. Seattle, May 2015

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