Elastic Context: Encoding Elasticity for Data-driven Models of Textiles

Understand

Physical interaction with textiles, such as assistive dressing, relies on advanced dextreous capabilities.

• The underlying complexity in textile behavior when being pulled and stretched, is due to both the yarn material properties and the textile construction technique.
• Today, there are no commonly adopted and annotated datasets on which the various interaction or property identification methods are assessed.
• One important property that affects the interaction is material elasticity that results from both the yarn material and construction technique: these two are intertwined and, if not known a-priori, almost impossible to identify through sensing commonly available on robotic platforms.