Dexterous textile manipulation using electroadhesive fingers
Krishna Manaswi Digumarti,Vito Cacucciolo,Herbert Shea,Krishna Manaswi Digumarti,Vito Cacucciolo,Herbert Shea
Handling of fabric is a crucial step in the manufacturing of garments. This task is typically performed by trained workers who manipulate one sheet at a time, thus introducing a bottleneck in the automation of the textile industry. This paper seeks to address the challenge of picking fabric up by proposing a new method of achieving ply-separation. Our approach relies on a finger-tip sized (2 cm2) ...
