A deformable model driven method for handling clothes

Author

Kita, Yasuyo ; Saito, Fuminori ; Kita, Nobuyuki

Author_Institution

Intelligent Syst. Inst., Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. Technol., Tsukuba, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

23-26 Aug. 2004

Firstpage

243

Abstract

A model-driven method for handling clothes by two manipulators based on observation with stereo cameras is proposed. The task considered in this paper is to hold up a specific part of clothes (e.g. one shoulder of a pullover) by the second manipulator, when the clothes is held in the air by the first manipulator. First, the method calculates possible 3D shapes of the hanging clothes by simulating the clothes deformation. The 3D shape whose appearance gives the best fit with the observed appearance is selected as estimation of the current state. Then, based on the estimated shape, the 3D position and normal direction of the part where the second manipulator should hold are calculated. The experiments using actual two manipulators have shown the good potential of the proposed method.

Keywords

clothing; manipulators; object recognition; robot vision; state estimation; stereo image processing; 3D position estimation; 3D shape calculation; clothes deformation; clothes handling; deformable model driven method; hanging clothes; manipulators; state estimation; stereo cameras; Cameras; Clothing industry; Deformable models; Grippers; Intelligent systems; Manipulators; Predictive models; Shape; State estimation; Textile industry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pattern Recognition, 2004. ICPR 2004. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on

ISSN

1051-4651

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2128-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334513

Filename

1334513