Automation in Shoe Assembly
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The paper describes three applications of industrial robot in shoe production. Two of them – automation of shoe lasting machine and automation of finishing process are extremely difficult to automate and are according to our knowledge first successful automation of the above processes. The focus of the paper is on automatic robot trajectory generation directly from CAD shoe design data. The paper shows also how kinematic redundancy resolution approach was used in order to design fault tolerant robot trajectories.
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