The design of a form-changing female fitting robot

Abstract

We present a design of a form-changing female robotic mannequin for garment fitting. The fitting robot can change itself to imitate the body shape of a female person and replace her to finish the fitting process remotely. It can be used for reducing the return rate of garment e-commerce and increasing the order quantity of made-to-measure by avoiding the geographical restriction and the complicated process of trying on different clothes personally for a customer. In this paper, we mainly focus on the design of the mechanical structure and control system for the female fitting robot. By analyzing the characteristics of the skeleton structure and shape of female bodies, we design a block model for representing the surface of the fitting robot and an internal motion mechanism which is driven by a control system after inputting parameters of body sizes. On the basis of the design, a prototype of the form-changing female fitting robot is developed. Experimental results show that it can imitate a range of female body types.