Vision system and flexible robot hand for cloth handling robot system

Flexible objects such as clothes are hard to be handled by robots. But the working conditions for laundry factories are severe because of dusts, heats and steams. To automate these factories, 3D vision systems are dispensable to recognize the 3D shape of flexible clothes. Here, 3D robot vision systems with stereo cameras and a pattern projector have been introduced to apply the cloth handlings, and a cloth handling robot system has been developed. In this paper, the 3D robot vision systems and the cloth handling robot system with a flexible robot hand has been introduced.