Interesting Directions in (Flat) Sewing
for 15-869K, February 5th, 2019
What's next for flat sewing?
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"You can't sew a running stitch with a machine."
-- Me, recently.
(this is a da Vinci surgical robot, being teleoperated)
(this is a smocking pleater)
These could be sewing machines.
(turn-taking control of a laser cutter)
(mediated control of a CNC router)
(turn-taking on an embroidery machine)
Can we run free motion quilting algorithms on a computer?
(Image from work with Jackie Li, David Breen, Jessica Hodgins)
Can we simulate the interaction of cloth and thread and batting?
(we're getting very good at simulating cloth and yarn)
It seems like we should be able to do better quilt visualization,
even without fancy physics.
(images from work you saw last week with Chenxi Liu and Jessica Hodgins)
~ Closed Loop Control Ideas ~
Visual servoing to deal with cloth stretch
Real-time path adaptation by observing colored thread
Copy motions from performer
Shadow outline sewing
Follow marks on cloth
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Hardware
Interactions
Software
Caveat: These things may not happen unless we make them happen.
