The goal of this paper is to perform complex assembly tasks, using a robot assisted by a multi-axis vibrator that reduces friction and avoids jamming. An experimentbased approach using the Taguchi Method is applied to the tuning of the vibrator. The vibrators are tuned so that effects of friction and stick-slip can be minimized. Using actual assembly data and an experimental analysis method, ca...

A two-step optimal algorithms (TSO) is one of the well-known dynamic adjust techniques. It has shown successfully in a data-mining environment for adjusting parameters by many of algorithms. Simultaneously, this paper presents a novel algorithm, the Two Step Optimal algorithm (TSO), developed by Taguchi can construct a design system to test parameters under data-mining environment. Based on the...

Composite microsystems that integrate mechanical and fluidic components with electronics are emerging as the next generation of system-on-a-chip. Custom microsystems are expensive, inflexible, and unsuitable for high-volume production. The authors address this problem by leveraging hardware/software codesign principles to design reconfigurable composite microsystems. They partition the system d...

This paper presents a methodology for selection of optimal softu’are design parameters using the experimental design. When an organization is at the point of taking up a new project with an objective of improving the software quality, Taguchi method is appliedfor the software design process with an objective that not more than one error is found per software module. The strategy in robust desig...

Electro chemical machining is a non conventional machining process to machine conducting hard materials using anodic dissolution. The process parameters are needed to be optimized to get better result of material removal rate (MRR) and surface roughness (SR). In this paper MRR and SR values are optimized by Simulated Annealing (SA) and the effect of input parameters are determined by Taguchi De...

Process optimization is one of the most important activities in today's competitive industries. the rather high cost of research and development has necessitated the development of experimental methods by which the factors affecting processes&#10could be determined with minimum number of experiments. Over the last two decades, various types of experimental designs have been used. Among the diff...

This paper presents a soft computing strategy to determine the optimum die openings of parison programming of extrusion blow molding process. The design objective is to obtain a uniform thickness of blown parts. The proposed strategy, Fuzzy Neural-Taguchi, first establishes a back propagation network using Taguchi’s experimental array to predict the relationship between design variables and res...