A workstation for microassembly

In this paper, an open-architecture, reconfigurable microassembly workstation for efficient and reliable assembly of micromachined parts is presented. The workstation is designed to be used as a research tool for investigation of the problems in microassembly. The development of such a workstation i...

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Published in2007 Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors Kunt, E.D., Cakir, K., Sabanovic, A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2007
Subjects
Assembly systems
End effectors
Humans
Machine vision
Mechatronics
Microassembly
Reliability engineering
Robust control
Visualization
Workstations
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Summary:In this paper, an open-architecture, reconfigurable microassembly workstation for efficient and reliable assembly of micromachined parts is presented. The workstation is designed to be used as a research tool for investigation of the problems in microassembly. The development of such a workstation includes the design of: (i) a manipulation system consisting of motion stages providing necessary travel range and precision for the realization of assembly tasks, (ii) a vision system to visualize the microworld and the determination of the position and orientation of micro components to be assembled, (iii) a robust control system and necessary mounts for the end effectors in such a way that according to the task to be realized, the manipulation tools can be easily changed and the system will be ready for the predefined task. In addition tele-operated and semi-automated assembly concepts are implemented. The design is verified by implementing the range of the tasks in micro-parts manipulation. The versatility of the workstation is demonstrated and high accuracy of positioning is shown.
ISBN:1424412811
9781424412815
DOI:10.1109/MED.2007.4433810