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Norman Tien

4 accepted papers

2026

Automated Straight-Line Sewing of Stretchable Fabrics with Different Lengths

ICRA 2026poster

Different Length Alignment Sewing (DLAS), which involves stretching the shorter fabric to match the longer one and sewing them together in a straight line, is a challenging task that needs to satisfy several requirements when automating the sewing process. To address the challenges, this research pr…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Fabric Dynamic Motion Modeling and Collision Avoidance with Oriented Bounding Box

ICRA 2026poster

Avoiding collision between the fabric and the obstacle is critical to transport fabric piece in the garment factory. If the fabric collides with the sharp-edged obstacle, it can be scratched or contaminated, resulting in poor product quality and increased waste. However, when we consider the fabric …

Cited by 0Scholar
2026

Fixture-Free Automated Sewing System Using Dual-Arm Manipulator and High-Speed Fabric Edge Detection

ICRA 2026poster

Inspired by human workers who perform complicated sewing tasks by repeating relatively simple operations, this paper proposes a fixture-free automated sewing system using a dual-arm manipulator and an ordinary sewing machine to sew two aligned fabrics along the edges, a common task in garment produc…

Cited by 7SourceScholar
2026

SIS: Seam-Informed Strategy for T-Shirt Unfolding

ICRA 2026poster

Seams are information-rich components of garments. The presence of different types of seams and their combinations helps to select grasping points for garment handling. In this paper, we propose a new Seam-Informed Strategy (SIS) for finding actions for handling a garment, such as grasping and unfol…