Abstract:Decorative lace is knitted in webs typically 3 metres wide containing many smaller lace ribbons. These lace ribbons must be separated from the main web before sale to the garment manufacturers and retail trade. The separation process for decorative lace is traditionally carried out using scissors or a guided knife cutting system. The development of a machine vision guided laser cutting system at Loughborough University in the 1990s demonstrated that an economical fully automatic cutting system could replace th… Show more
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