Vision and force based autonomous coating with rollers

Yayun Du,Zhaoxing Deng,Zicheng Fang,Yunbo Wang,Taiki Nagata,Karan Bansal,Mohiuddin Quadir,Mohammad Khalid Jawed,Yayun Du,Zhaoxing Deng,Zicheng Fang,Yunbo Wang,Taiki Nagata,Karan Bansal,Mohiuddin Quadir,Mohammad Khalid Jawed

Coating rollers are widely popular in structural painting, in comparison with brushes and sprayers, due to thicker paint layer, better color consistency, and effortless customizability of holder frame and naps. In this paper, we introduce a cost-effective method to employ a general purpose robot (Sawyer, Rethink Robotics) for autonomous coating. To sense the position and the shape of the target ob...