PRINCIPLES OF ELECTROADHESION IN CLOTHING ROBOTICS
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology
- Vol. 1 (3) , 14-20
- https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002951
Abstract
With the growing need of automation for garment assembly in the clothing industry comes the requirement for a compete range of textile handling devices. Robotics offers the flexibility needed to compete in a market where change in style and fashion can be both rapid and unpredictable. The actual physical mechanisms involved in the use of electrostatic attraction of clothing fabrics as a robot gripping technique are discussed. Following an outline of the underlying principles, experimental results are presented for a range of materials tested using electroadhesive surfaces. A selection of robot gripper configurations are provided together with a discussion of their relative merits.Keywords
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