Design of robotic mannequin formed by flexible belt net
Publication date: May 2019
Source: Computer-Aided Design, Volume 110
Author(s): Jituo Li, Jiawei Weng, Haocan Xu, Chengdi Zhou, Dongliang Zhang, Guodong Lu
Abstract
A robotic mannequin is a shape-changing robot that can simulate human body shapes. Inspired by the three-dimensional parametric human modeling technology, a novel robotic mannequin structure, the flexible-belt-net-based robotic mannequin, has been proposed in this paper. Devices have been designed to enable a tensioned flexible belt to elongate, shorten, and bend as a mathematical curve. The shape of the tensioned flexible belt is determined by the elastic bars it envelopes. Each elastic bar is statistically designed on the basis of a large number of scanned human models. When the flexible belt is tensioned, it forces the elastic bars to bend and adjust their postures adaptively, shaping the flexible belt. This study is the first to design and control a robotic mannequin with flexible belts, bridging the virtual parametric human model to physical shape-changing mannequin. A flexible-belt-net-based robotic mannequin that can simulate medium-sized human bodies has been prototyped to evaluate our approach.
Publisher URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010448518302677
DOI: S0010448518302677
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