有松・鳴海絞りにおけるキャップ装着ロボット

（小型化と作業性の向上）

抄録

There is a serious problem of aging of the craftsmen who have tie-dyeing technique of Japanese traditional craft “Arimatsu-Narumi Shibori”. In substitution for tying process by thread on tie dyeing, we proposed usage of elastic cap with different thickness at the both ends. We made small-size robots that installed the elastic caps on the cloth using two kinds of actuators. To improve the work efficiency, a cap cartridge and a separator between the cloth and a needle were adopted. It was confirmed that our Shibori robots realized the tie-dyeing pattern similar to the conventional method using thread.