Abstract: Fabric smoothness appearance assessment plays an important role in the textile and apparel industry. It remains a challenging task to evaluate the fabric smoothness objectively. In the ...

SEATTLE — Sound Transit is replacing fabric seats on its Link light rail trains with vinyl, after feedback from over 2,300 passengers. The change is expected to improve cleanliness, as vinyl seats ...

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2025 — More than half of the 7.5 million bales of cotton produced annually in the U.S. will be used in clothing manufacturing. The finishing techniques used to make cotton fabric ...

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Abstract: This paper proposes a motion-planning method for a wrapping-with-fabric task. To wrap, robots require not only offhand paths (which represent the movement of a grasping point on fabric) but ...