As no reliable methods is available to manipulate component whose typical size is up to 100 μm, current industrial assembled products contained only components down to this physical limit. In that scale, micro-assembly requires specific handling strategies to overcome adhesion and high precision robots. This paper deals with an original robotic system able to perform reliable micro-assembly of ...

Industrial robots need instrument or parts transport to do which requires coordinate to show the robot’s instrument, parts and body. When investigating the robot location, we are usually interested in measuring its location relative to a reference coordinate system. In this system it is attempted to make the assemble direction smaller by designing the sensor board and making use of an instrumen...

To ensure safety, state-of-the-art robotic assembly environments typically require separation of assembly robots from human assembly workers. This separation has the disadvantage of requiring significant space and cost to install, and more importantly, it forces humans and robots to work in isolation, leaving little opportunity for cooperation. The Intelligent Monitoring of Assembly Operations ...

Inspired by the swarm behaviours of social insects, research into the self-assembly of swarm robots has become an attractive issue in the robotic community. Unfortunately, there are very few platforms for self-assembly and locomotion in the field of swarm robotics. The Sambot is a novel self-assembling modular robot that shares characteristics with swarm robots and self-reconfigurable robots. E...

Assembly, one of the oldest forms of industrial production, and its twin area, disassembly, have enjoyed tremendous modernization in the era of the information revolution. New enabling technologies, including prominent examples such as virtual CAD, Design for Assembly and Disassembly (DFAD), robotic and intelligent assembly, and Flexible Assembly (FA), are now becoming commonplace. This article...

280, ENG 104 Vision-guided Robotic Assembly Automation Biao Zhang US Corporate Research Cneter, ABB, INC [email protected]

Visual feedback has traditionally been used in the assembly process to a very limited extent. With the advent of effective visual servoing techniques, visual feedback can become an integral part of the assembly process by complementing the use of force feedback to accomplish precision assemblies in imprecisely calibrated robotic assembly workcells. In this paper we present some of the issues pe...