Textile technology for soft robotic and autonomous garments

V Sanchez, CJ Walsh, RJ Wood - Advanced functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Textiles have emerged as a promising class of materials for develo** wearable robots that
move and feel like everyday clothing. Textiles represent a favorable material platform for …

Learning human–environment interactions using conformal tactile textiles

Y Luo, Y Li, P Sharma, W Shou, K Wu, M Foshey… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recording, modelling and understanding tactile interactions is important in the study of
human behaviour and in the development of applications in healthcare and robotics …

3D knitting for pneumatic soft robotics

V Sanchez, K Mahadevan, G Ohlson… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robots adapt passively to complex environments due to their inherent compliance,
allowing them to interact safely with fragile or irregular objects and traverse uneven terrain …

Digital fabrication of pneumatic actuators with integrated sensing by machine knitting

Y Luo, K Wu, A Spielberg, M Foshey, D Rus… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Soft actuators with integrated sensing have shown utility in a variety of applications such as
assistive wearables, robotics, and interactive input devices. Despite their promise, these …

DefeXtiles: 3D printing quasi-woven fabric via under-extrusion

J Forman, MD Dogan, H Forsythe, H Ishii - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We present DefeXtiles, a rapid and low-cost technique to produce tulle-like fabrics on
unmodified fused deposition modeling (FDM) printers. The under-extrusion of filament is a …

KnitUI: Fabricating interactive and sensing textiles with machine knitting

Y Luo, K Wu, T Palacios, W Matusik - … of the 2021 CHI Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
With the recent interest in wearable electronics and smart garments, digital fabrication of
sensing and interactive textiles is in increasing demand. Recently, advances in digital …

FibeRobo: Fabricating 4D fiber interfaces by continuous drawing of temperature tunable liquid crystal elastomers

J Forman, O Kilic Afsar, S Nicita, RHJ Lin… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We present FibeRobo, a thermally-actuated liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) fiber that can be
embedded or structured into textiles and enable silent and responsive interactions with …

[PDF][PDF] Computational pattern making from 3D garment models.

N Pietroni, C Dumery, R Falque, M Liu… - ACM Trans …, 2022 - corentindumery.github.io
In this work, we propose a method for automatically creating a sewing pattern for a given 3D
model of a garment. In the fashion industry, the garment creation process starts from the 2D …

Estimation of yarn-level simulation models for production fabrics

G Sperl, RM Sánchez-Banderas, M Li… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This paper introduces a methodology for inverse-modeling of yarn-level mechanics of cloth,
based on the mechanical response of fabrics in the real world. We compiled a database …

Knitscript: A domain-specific scripting language for advanced machine knitting

M Hofmann, L Albaugh, T Wang, J Mankoff… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Knitting machines can fabricate complex fabric structures using robust industrial fabrication
machines. However, machine knitting's full capabilities are only available through low-level …