Robot System for Manipulating a Randomly Placed Towel-like Object
In recent years, there has been an increasing demand for robotic handling of towel-like objects in linen and laundry services. One such task involves picking up a towel randomly and aligning it to a predetermined position and posture. However, it is difficult for robots to handle these towel-like flexible objects because deformation occurs during robotic manipulation, and manipulation based on estimation of deformation status is rather challenging and unfeasible for most robotic systems. To solve this problem, in this research, we propose a method to continuously realize the object picking, the object spreading and the object alignment by robot arm system, aiming at further automation.
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