This paper describes methods pertaining to the vision-guided robotic control of fabric motion for performing simulated joining operations for apparel manufacturing. The determination of robot motion paths is based on visual information defining the position of the fabric edges in world coordinates. The usefulness of the shape analysis and motion control algorithms is demonstrated via experiment...

Radiation induced grafting of acrylic acid (AA) and binary mixture of acrylic acid/N-vinyl pyrrolidone (NVP) has been carried out on poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) fabric. The grafted fabrics are immobilized with collagen via carbodiimide coupling to make the fabric bioreceptive and biocompatible for cell seeding and grafts. Atomic force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy observati...

Major multi-user systems based on VRML are mainly used to set up virtual communities on the Web. The ability of these systems to take in account the reality as an input or output is non-existent. They are restricted to the Web. We propose a more generic architecture that permits to set up 3D shared environments (by using VRML or not) but also to interact with reality (extension of the Web to th...

Skin and garment constitute a dynamic contact system for human body comfort and protection. Although dermatological injuries due to fabric actions during human body movement are common, there is still no general guidance or standard for measuring or evaluating skin/garment contact interactions, especially, during intense sports. A three-dimensional explicit finite element (EFE) model combined w...

By introducing a percentage of conductive material during the manufacture ofsewing thread, it is possible to obtain a fabric which is able to detect variations in pressurein certain areas. In previous experiments the existence of resistance variations has beendemonstrated, although some constrains of cause and effect were found in the fabric. Theresearch has been concentrated in obtaining a fab...

Distributed information systems are prevalent in modern computing but difficult to build securely. Because systems commonly span domains of trust, host nodes share data and code of varying degrees of trustworthiness. Modern systems are often open and extensible, making security even harder to reason about. Unfortunately, standard methods for software construction do not help programmers enough ...

Dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR) allows one region of an field-programmable gate array (FPGA) fabric to be reconfigured without affecting the operations on the rest of the fabric. To use an FPGA as a dynamically shared compute resource, one could partition and manage an FPGA fabric as multiple DPR partitions that can be independently reconfigured at runtime with different application funct...

Jute is a strong, stiff, natural fiber. When blended with cotton it makes a sturdy but prickly fabric due to protruding surface jute fibers. Samples of jute-cotton blended fabric were treated with commercial cellulases, xylanases and pectinases individually and in combination at various concentrations in order to smooth and soften the fabric. Enzyme treatment was carried out at 50°C in the pres...

The development of multimedia services is pushing networking technologies towards broadband solutions. A lot of research and development effort has been spent on finding a universal transport solution to carrying the different services to end-users. However, it looks that there will be no unifying transport solution to overcome the burden of networking diversity. This implies that the future se...