Towards footwear manufacturing 4.0: shoe sole robotic grasping in assembling operations

This video is a demonstration of a robotic workcell for task automation in footwear manufacturing such as sole digitization, glue dispensing, and sole manipulation from different places within the factory plant. To achieve it, we have implemented a novel sole grasping method, compatible with soles of different shapes, sizes, and materials, by exploiting the particular characteristics of these objects. Our proposal is able to work well with low density point clouds from a single RGBD camera and also with dense point clouds obtained from a laser scanner digitizer. You can find a whole description in Journal: The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2021: https://link.springer.com/article/10....