Efficient Transfer Planning for Flat Knitting - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Efficient Transfer Planning for Flat Knitting

Jenny Lin, Vidya Narayanan, and James McCann
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2nd ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF '18), June, 2018

Abstract

Industrial knitting machines form fabric by manipulating loops of yarn held on hundreds of hook-shaped needles. Transfer planning algorithms generate a sequence of machine instructions that move loops between their current needles and given target needles. In this paper we describe how to compute the run-time cost of a transfer plan in terms of machine passes, and compare the plans generated by several existing and new transfer planning algorithms under this metric over a a large benchmarking set of transfer operations taken from example flat lace patterns, along with synthetically generated patterns.

BibTeX

@conference{Lin-2018-113390,
author = {Jenny Lin and Vidya Narayanan and James McCann},
title = {Efficient Transfer Planning for Flat Knitting},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 2nd ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF '18)},
year = {2018},
month = {June},
}