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Bimanual Robot Manipulation and Packaging of Shoes in Footwear Industry

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The present paper presents the ongoing research undertaken as a research experiment, called HERMES, inside Echord european integrated project framework. The goal of the HERMES experiment is to study, analyze and finally implement the packaging of shoes on a robot system that mimics the required degree of flexibility and dexterity provided by the human workers. The use of a bimanual system with anthropomorphic hands has been chosen as it could also be applied to solve other processes of similar or even higher complexity in the future and thus provide a holistic approach towards automization in footwear industry. In this paper, the first experimental results of the HERMES experiment are presented.

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  • Robot vision
  • bimanual robotic systems
  • automation
  • control

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  1. Department of Systems Engineering and Automatic Control, Miguel Hernandez University, Alicante, Spain

    Ricardo Morales, Francisco J. Badesa & Nicolás García-Aracil

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Stuttgart, Germany

    Richard Bormann, Jan Fischer & Birgit Graf

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Morales, R., Badesa, F.J., García-Aracil, N., Bormann, R., Fischer, J., Graf, B. (2014). Bimanual Robot Manipulation and Packaging of Shoes in Footwear Industry. In: Armada, M., Sanfeliu, A., Ferre, M. (eds) ROBOT2013: First Iberian Robotics Conference. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 252. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03413-3_23

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