Objective It is proposed to develop an automated tracking and handling system for the sewing of two-dimensional flexible material-sheets into three-dimensional end-products.The techniques to be studied can be applied to the manufacture of a wide variety of sewn products made from porous and non-porous flexible materials.To focus the research the project will concentrate primarily on garment manufacture, with additional studies in the area of 'soft-play' toys made from non-porous PVC coated fabrics.This project is being led by industry in the form of two end users and a sewing machine manufacturer.The aim of the project is to make an important step towards the development of 'intelligent'sewing-stations.The proposed research is a necessary step for computer integrated manufacturing in the making-up industry.A prototype demonstrator system will be built, installed and tested on the side of a leading garment manufacturer. The basic approach consists of a combination of three ideas:1) Printing of an invisible and precise reference pattern on a sheet of material.2) On-line tracking of the position, deformation, deformation, and speed of the reference pattern by a real time computer image analysis system using novel near infra-red vision systems.3) Feed-back of the information from the image analysis system to robotic devices for the manipulation of the sheet material, achieving the correct presentation of the material to a standard sewing-head.Three tasks of increasing complexity will be chosen to demonstrate the flexibility of the system.Two of the tasks will be taken from garment manufacture and one from the soft-play toy area.These will cover two part straight seams, two part curved seams and three part straight seams. Programme(s) FP3-BRITE/EURAM 2 - Specific programme (EEC) of research and technological development in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 2.2.1 - Tools, techniques and systems for high quality manufacturing Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator BRANDTEX A/S Address Nordlundvej,1 7330 Brande Denmark See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Boing Creative Solutions United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address The old malthouse little anne street BS2 9EB Bristol See on map CENTEXBEL Belgium EU contribution € 0,00 Address Technologiepark-zwijnaarde 7 9052 Zwijnaarde See on map COSURVEY OPTICS Belgium EU contribution € 0,00 Address Kleinberchemstraat 34 1080 Brussels See on map HELGECO SA Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address I. metaxa 8 17343 Athens See on map IFS Systemtechnik GmbH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Wilhelmshöher straße 9 12161 Berlin See on map METHOD IRA LTD Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address P. tsaldari 19-21 15562 Cholargos See on map Rimoldi Srl Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via montebello 33 olcella di busto garolfo 20020 Milano See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address University walk BS8 1TW Bristol, clifton See on map
