A new electrostatic gripper for flexible handling of fabrics in automated garment manufacturing

Bin Sun; Xinyu Zhang

doi:10.1109/COASE.2019.8843149

A new electrostatic gripper for flexible handling of fabrics in automated garment manufacturing

Bin Sun, Xinyu Zhang^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Software Engineering Institute

East China Normal University

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25 Scopus citations

Abstract

The handling of fabrics is a very challenging task throughout automated garment manufacturing. There are practical difficulties in designing and implementing a reliable gripper to efficiently handling fabric panels. In this paper, we present a new and flexible electrostatic gripper for the handling of fabrics. Our gripper consists of four flat pads and their embedded electrode patterns generate electrostatic adhesion fields. The coverage area varies with the expansion of the four electrostatic pads. This allows handling various size of fabric panels and flattening folded/wrinkled fabrics. We partially verified our new gripper in prototype form and experimentally evaluated its performance on a large number of fabric materials. Moreover, the proposed gripper can be used for handling and transporting garments while avoiding the damage of fabric surfaces.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2019
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	879-884
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728103556
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2019.8843149
State	Published - Aug 2019
Event	15th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2019 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 22 Aug 2019 → 26 Aug 2019

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Name	IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
Volume	2019-August
ISSN (Print)	2161-8070
ISSN (Electronic)	2161-8089

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Conference	15th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2019
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	22/08/19 → 26/08/19

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Sun, B., & Zhang, X. (2019). A new electrostatic gripper for flexible handling of fabrics in automated garment manufacturing. In 2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2019 (pp. 879-884). Article 8843149 (IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering; Vol. 2019-August). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2019.8843149

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A new electrostatic gripper for flexible handling of fabrics in automated garment manufacturing. / Sun, Bin; Zhang, Xinyu.
2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2019. IEEE Computer Society, 2019. p. 879-884 8843149 (IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering; Vol. 2019-August).

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