Derivation of template shoe-lasts for efficient fabrication of custom-ordered shoe-lasts

Authors:
Tae Jin Hwang;Kunwoo Lee;Hun Young Oh;Jee Hoon Jeong
Affiliations:
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea;School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea;School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea;School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Venue:
Computer-Aided Design
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Custom-tailored products are meant by the products having various sizes and shapes to meet the customer's different tastes or needs. Thus fabrication of custom-tailored products inherently involves inefficiency. Custom-tailoring shoes are not an exception because corresponding shoe-lasts must be custom-ordered. It would be nice if many template shoe-lasts had been cast in advance, the most similar template was identified automatically from the custom-ordered shoe-last, and only the different portions in the template shoe-last could be machined. To enable this idea, the first step is to derive the geometric models of template shoe-lasts to be cast. Template shoe-lasts can be derived by grouping all the various existing shoe-lasts into manageable number of groups and by uniting all the shoe-lasts in each group such that each template shoe-last for each group barely encloses all the shoe-lasts in the group. For grouping similar shoe-lasts into respective groups, similarity between shoe-lasts should be quantized. Similarity comparison starts with the determination of the closest pose between two shapes in consideration. The closest pose is derived by comparing the ray distances while one shape is virtually rotated with respect to the other. Shape similarity value and overall similarity value calculated from ray distances are also used for grouping. A prototype system based on the proposed methodology has been implemented and applied to grouping of the shoe-lasts of various shapes and sizes and deriving template shoe-lasts.