New technologies for customizing products for people with special necessities: project FASHION-ABLE

Durá-Gil, Juan V.; Ballester-Fernández, Alfredo; Cavallaro, Marco; Chiodi, Andrea; Ballarino, Andrea; Brondi, Carlo; Arnim, Volkmar von; Stellmach, Dieter

doi:10.1080/0951192x.2016.1145803

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“…Additive manufacturing (AM) is a feasible manufacturing process to produce customized products with complex shapes [1][2][3]. The global AM market was worth USD 12.8 billion at the end of 2020.…”

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A review of geometry representation and processing methods for cartesian and multiaxial robot-based additive manufacturing

Lettori

Raffaeli

Bilancia

et al. 2022

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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Nowadays, robot-based additive manufacturing (RBAM) is emerging as a potential solution to increase manufacturing flexibility. Such technology allows to change the orientation of the material deposition unit during printing, making it possible to fabricate complex parts with optimized material distribution. In this context, the representation of parts geometries and their subsequent processing become aspects of primary importance. In particular, part orientation, multiaxial deposition, slicing, and infill strategies must be properly evaluated so as to obtain satisfactory outputs and avoid printing failures. Some advanced features can be found in commercial slicing software (e.g., adaptive slicing, advanced path strategies, and nonplanar slicing), although the procedure may result excessively constrained due to the limited number of available options. Several approaches and algorithms have been proposed for each phase and their combination must be determined accurately to achieve the best results. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art works addressing the primary methods for the representation of geometries and the subsequent geometry processing for RBAM. For each category, tools and software found in the literature and commercially available are discussed. Comparison tables are then reported to assist in the selection of the most appropriate approaches. The presented review can be helpful for designers, researchers and practitioners to identify possible future directions and open issues.

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A review of geometry representation and processing methods for cartesian and multiaxial robot-based additive manufacturing

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Raffaeli

Bilancia

et al. 2022

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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“…Not many examples of robotic applications can be found in shoe manufacturing industry, Pedrocchi (2015), Hinojo-Perez (2016), Dura-Gil (2016), Jatta (2004), Dulio (2004). Next, some research projects that use robot systems to increase the productivity in shoe manufacturing are reviewed.…”

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Automation of product packaging for industrial applications

Pérez-Vidal

Gracia

Paco

et al. 2017

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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This work presents a robotic-based solution devised to automate the product packaging in industrial environments. Although the proposed approach is illustrated for the case of the shoe industry, it applies to many other products requiring similar packaging processes. The main advantage obtained with the automated task is that productivity could be significantly increased. The key algorithms for the developed robot system are: object detection using a computer vision system; object grasping; trajectory planning with collision avoidance; and operator interaction using a force/torque sensor. All this algorithms have been experimentally tested in the laboratory to show the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed approach.

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Robotic manipulation for the shoe-packaging process

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Mronga

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This paper presents the integration of a robotic system in a humancentered environment, as it can be found in the shoe manufacturing industry. Fashion footwear is nowadays mainly handcrafted due to the big amount of small production tasks. Therefore, the introduction of intelligent robotic systems in this industry may contribute to automate and improve the manual production steps, such us polishing, cleaning, packaging and visual inspection. Due to the high complexity of the manual tasks in shoe production, cooperative robotic systems (which can work in collaboration with humans) are required. Thus, the focus of the robot lays on grasping, collision detection and avoidance, as well as on considering the human intervention to supervise the work being performed. For this research, the robot has been equipped with a Kinect camera and a wrist force/torque sensor so that it is able to detect human interaction and the dynamic environment in order to modify the robot's behavior. To illustrate the applicability of the proposed approach, this work presents the experimental results obtained for two actual platforms, which are located at different research laboratories, that share similarities in their morphology, sensor equipment and actuation system.

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New technologies for customizing products for people with special necessities: project FASHION-ABLE

Cited by 6 publications

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A review of geometry representation and processing methods for cartesian and multiaxial robot-based additive manufacturing

A review of geometry representation and processing methods for cartesian and multiaxial robot-based additive manufacturing

Automation of product packaging for industrial applications

Robotic manipulation for the shoe-packaging process

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