Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology

The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (대한기계학회)
권호 표지

A System for Rapid Design and Manufacturing of Custom-Tailored Shoes

  • Park, Sang-Kun (Institute of Advanced Machinery and Design, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Kun-Woo (School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Jong-Won (School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Park, Jong-Woo (School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2000.06.01
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

Rapid design and production techniques are indispensable for the custom-made production systems. For manufacturing custom-made shoes, the shoelast should be designed rapidly from the individual foot model. In this paper, we develop an integrated system for rapid design and manufacturing of custom-tailored shoes. The foot shape measurement sub-system allows scanning a standard shoelast and an individual foot and then extracts the three-dimensional crosssectional data of the shoelast and the human foot shape from the captured image data. The shoelast design sub-system uses the scanned data to design new customized shoelast curves or surfaces with the heeling and mixing algorithms built in this system. The pattern design subsystem provides a method, which transforms a shoe-upper surface designed by a stylist into a flat-pattern that can be manufactured. We also export the surface model to an NC machine to manufacture the physical shoelast model.

Keywords

References

  1. Cho, M., 1985, 'Research Report on Standardization of Foot Measuring Body and Shoelast Design,' KAIST
  2. Craig, J., 1986, 'Introduction to Robotics Mechanics & Control,' Addison-Wesely Publishing Co., pp. 42-46
  3. do Carmo, M. P., 1976, Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces., New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs
  4. Elber, G. 1995. Model Fabrication Using Surface Layout Projection. Comput.-Aided Des., Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 283-291 https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-4485(95)91138-B
  5. Miller, R. G., 1976, Manual of Shoemaking, C. & J. Clark Ltd. Printing Department
  6. Park, F. C., Yoo, J., and Ravani, B., 1999. Optimal Control and the Design of Developable Surfaces. Comput.-Aided Des. under review
  7. Piegl, L. and Tiller, W., 1995, The NURBS Book, Springer-Verlag, pp. 410-413
  8. Tsai, R. Y., 1986, 'A Versatile Comera Calibration Technique for High Accuracy 3d Machine Vision Metrology Using Off-the-Shelf TV Cameras and Lenses,' IEEE J. Robotics Automat., Vol. 3, pp. 323-344