Abstract
(1) Background: Conventional shoe manufacturing involves many processes that most workers avoid because of loud noises and harmful environments. Therefore, a robot-based shoe manufacturing system is needed to implement an automated process. (2) Aim: We propose a new robot-based shoe manufacturing automation system that includes an automatic robotic solution for replacing the manual manufacturing processes of the upper and sole. (3) Methods: For the upper manufacturing process, a new trajectory acquisition system with a digitizer and a shoe last turning device is proposed. A method to plan the robot’s tool path for roughing and cementing by industrial robot manipulators is also presented. For the sole manufacturing process, we adopted an industrial robot manipulator with a 3-D scanning system and a cementing tool. A trajectory generation algorithm for cementing the outer and inner sides of the sole by transforming 3-D information of the sole into a 6-D posture for the robot is proposed. (4) Results: All developed systems and proposed algorithms are applied to an automated production testbed, and their performances are experimentally verified. (5) Conclusions: The proposed system and methods can be applied for upper and sole manufacturing processes according to evaluation experiments in a demonstrative production line.
Funder
University of Seoul
Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Control and Optimization,Mechanical Engineering,Computer Science (miscellaneous),Control and Systems Engineering
Cited by
8 articles.
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