An overview of the university of Louisiana robotic gripper system projectAn overview of the university of Louisiana robotic gripper system project Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication Δημοσίευση σε Περιοδικό με Κριτές 2015-10-072002enThis paper summarizes a concluded 5-year funded research project (1994-1999) addressing the automated handling and manipulation of limp material, without distortion, deformation or damage. A series of prototype gripper systems (fixed-dimensioned and reconfigurable) were developed and integrated with Adept Series manipulators to demonstrate the gripper applicability to the textiles and apparel industry. A sensor-based control system based on the hierarchical control architecture paradigm (Valavanis and Saridis, Intelligent robotic systems: theory, design and applications, Kluwer, Amsterdam, 1992) controlled the operation of the integrated robotic gripper system. The research concluded with the conceptual and theoretical design of a reconfigurable robotic gripper system (RGS) followed by simulation-based design parameter validation, controlled by a fuzzy logic controller (for both position- and suction-based control). RGS simulation studies demonstrated the distortion-free manipulation of limp material panels of a variety of shapes and sizes.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control12465-84 Tsourveloudis Nikolaos Τσουρβελουδης Νικολαος Ramesh Kolluru Kimon P. Valavanis Stanford Smith Robot programming robots programming robot programming Textiles and apparel industry