Belt Object Modeling Heads: Shinichi Hirai Contact: "Hidefumi Wakamatsu" Date: 2005 - 2011 Mailing address: Dept. Robotics, Ritsumeikan Univ. Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan Supported by: Associated lab/group: Professor Wakamatsu (Osaka Univ.)

Project Description

The goal of this research is to establish the modeling method for deformable belt objects such as flat cables and flexible circuit boards. A modeling method, which is based on differential geometry, is developed to describe bend and twist of a belt object.

Personnel

	Name	Title	Degree
	Hidefumi Wakamatsu	Osaka University	Ph.D

Publications

• Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Eiji Arai, and Shinichi Hirai, Fishbone Model for Belt Object Deformation, Wolfram Burgard, Oliver Brock, and Cyrill Stachniss eds., Robotics: Science and Systems III, 9780262524841, The MIT Press, pp.89-96, 2007

• Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Eiji Morinaga, Eiji Arai, and Shinichi Hirai, Deformation Modeling of Belt Object with Angles, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp.606-611, 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152257, Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009
• Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Eiji Arai, and Shinichi Hirai, Fishbone Model for Belt Object Deformation, Robotics: Science and Systems III, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A., June 27-30, 2007
• Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Tatsuya Yamasaki, Eiji Arai, Shinichi Hirai, Modeling of Flexible Belt Objects toward Their Manipulation, 2007 IEEE Int. Symp. on Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM2007), pp.1-6, 10.1109/ISAM.2007.4288440, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., July 22-25, 2007
• Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Eiji Arai, and Shinichi Hirai, Modeling of Linear and Belt Object Deformation Based on Differential Geometry, Workshop on Modeling, Identification, and Control of Deformable Soft Objects, IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, CA, U.S.A., Oct. 29 - Nov. 2, 2007

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