Clothes Folding Task by Tool-Using Robot

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 618-625

  Osawa, Fumiaki ^a   Seki, Hiroaki ^b   Kamiya, Yoshitsugu ^b  

^a DAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

clothes; folding; handling; home service robot; tool

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATES; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR; FOLDINGS; HANDLING; HOME SERVICE ROBOT; ROBOT MODELING; ROBOT POSITIONS; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77955828796     PISSN: 09153942     EISSN: 18838049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2006.p0618     Document Type: Article

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