Title:
Fabric control for feeding into an automated sewing machine

dc.contributor.advisor Book, Wayne J.
dc.contributor.advisor Dickerson, Stephen L.
dc.contributor.author Winck, Ryder Christian en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Jayaraman, Sundaresan
dc.contributor.department Mechanical Engineering en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-06-08T19:28:17Z
dc.date.available 2009-06-08T19:28:17Z
dc.date.issued 2009-03-25 en_US
dc.description.abstract The importance of automating the garment manufacturing process has been understood since the early 1980s. However, in spite of millions of dollars spent on research, three decades later, the industry is still far from achieving a fully autonomous process. Previous work on fabric control in automated sewing focused on the control of only a single sheet of fabric using an industrial manipulator with an overhead vision system. These methods did not meet the accuracy and robustness requirements of the sewing process with respect to fabric position and fabric tension. To address these issues, a new method for fabric control in automated sewing is described. It uses the current feed mechanism on sewing machines, feed dogs, but modifies them to be servo-controlled. These servo controlled actuators, servo dogs, individually control two sheets of fabric before the fabric reaches the needle and during the sewing process. The servo dogs actuate the fabric 180o out of phase with the sewing needle, providing incremental control of the fabric when the needle is out of the fabric. To achieve this type of control successfully for automated sewing, the servo dogs have been designed for short displacement, high acceleration motions using a cable drive system powered by voice coil motors. Feedback of fabric position has been determined to be necessary and is to be provided by a thread-tracking vision system. This thesis outlines the general design of the system and discusses a prototype used to validate the design, and describes experiments performed to examine how the fabric will behave with the use of this type of actuation method. en_US
dc.description.degree M.S. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28205
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Automated sewing en_US
dc.subject Fabric control en_US
dc.subject Fabric handling en_US
dc.subject Cable drive en_US
dc.subject Fabric behavior en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Clothing factories
dc.subject.lcsh Textile fabrics
dc.subject.lcsh Textile industry
dc.subject.lcsh Machine sewing
dc.title Fabric control for feeding into an automated sewing machine en_US
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dc.type.genre Thesis
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local.contributor.advisor Book, Wayne J.
local.contributor.corporatename George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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