While the automation of planar sewing is a rather mature technology, the automation of sewing in three-dimensional space is still a challenging task to accomplish and is mostly done by human workers in factories. This Major Qualifying Project researches into automating the sewing process by designing a system for 3D soft matter manipulation. The team proposed a working prototype that utilizes a pin system which consists of five motorized top pins and their five passive counter-parts at the bottom. The system was able to form the three target 3D curves within an error of ±10% while holding the test fabric during and after curve formation. The system is subject to future iterations to improve its performance and to be made compatible with factory processes.

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Creator

• Shuai, Mingqi

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042519-155503

Advisor

• Popovic, Marko B.
• Li, Zhi

Year

• 2019

Date created

• 2019-04-25

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved