Achieving Autonomous Cloth Manipulation with Optimal Control via Differentiable Physics-Aware Regularization and Safety Constraints

Yutong Zhang,Fei Liu,Xiao Liang,Michael Yip,Yutong Zhang,Fei Liu,Xiao Liang,Michael Yip

Cloth manipulation is a category of deformable object manipulation of great interest to the robotics community, from applications of automated laundry-folding and home organizing to textiles and flexible manufacturing. Despite the desire for automated cloth manipulation, the thin-shell dynamics and under-actuation nature of cloth present significant challenges for robots to effectively interact wi...