Title :
Planning strategy for putting away laundry-isolating and unfolding task
Author :
Kaneko, Manabu ; Kakikura, Masayoshi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Studies a service robot for housekeeping which deals with the laundry, such as pants, a shirt and a towel. A robot has to treat a variety of “nonsolid” objects, as well as solid objects, in a house. In order to improve the technology for handling a nonsolid object, we study making a robot put away the laundry. The task of putting away laundry is composed of the isolating task, the unfolding task and the folding task. These tasks include some subtasks; segmenting an image of a washed mass into some regions, taking out clothes from a washed mass, rehandling clothes, classifying into each clothes´ type, recognizing the form of clothes, folding clothes and putting clothes on a specified place. The paper proposes the planning strategy for the isolating task and unfolding task
Keywords :
image classification; image segmentation; robot vision; robots; housekeeping; isolating task; laundry; nonsolid object; planning strategy; rehandling; service robot; unfolding task; washed mass; Grasping; Humans; Image recognition; Isolation technology; Manipulators; Manufacturing; Nails; Service robots; Shape control; Strategic planning;
Conference_Titel :
Assembly and Task Planning, 2001, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Fukuoka
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7004-X
DOI :
10.1109/ISATP.2001.929072