Apoorva Sachdev

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2012-92

May 11, 2012

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2012/EECS-2012-92.pdf

Robotic manipulation of 2D deformable objects is a difficult problem largely because such objects typically have infinite-dimensional configuration spaces and are too computationally expensive to simulate in the inner-loop of a motion planner.The problem we address is as follows: Given a robot model, the shape of a piece of cloth in a spread-out configuration on a horizontal table, and a final folded configuration specified by a sequence of g-folds, output a sequence of robot motions that achieve the final folded configuration or report that none exists, taking into account the kinematics constraints. We make this optimal on execution time.

Advisors: John F. Canny and Pieter Abbeel

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BibTeX citation:

@mastersthesis{Sachdev:EECS-2012-92,
    Author= {Sachdev, Apoorva},
    Title= {A Constraint-Aware Motion Planning Algorithm for Robotic Folding of Clothes},
    School= {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year= {2012},
    Month= {May},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2012/EECS-2012-92.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2012-92},
    Abstract= {Robotic manipulation of 2D deformable objects is a difficult problem largely because such objects typically have infinite-dimensional configuration spaces and are too computationally expensive to simulate in the inner-loop of a motion planner.The problem we address is as follows: Given a robot model, the shape of a piece of cloth in a spread-out configuration on a horizontal table, and a final folded configuration specified by a sequence of g-folds, output a sequence of robot motions that achieve the final folded configuration or report that none exists, taking into account the kinematics constraints. We make this optimal on execution time.},
}

EndNote citation:

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%T A Constraint-Aware Motion Planning Algorithm for Robotic Folding of Clothes
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2012
%8 May 11
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