Design and development of workstation for microparts manipulation and assembly

Authors: EMRAH DENİZ KUNT, AHMET TEOMAN NASKALİ, İSLAM SHOUKRY MOHAMMED KHALIL, ASIF SABANOVIC, EBUBEKİR YÜKSEL

Abstract: In this paper, microassembly system design issues are discussed with requirements, constraints and necessities for the development of an assembly platform, and these issues are shown over a versatile and reconfigurable microassembly workstation which is designed and realized as a research tool for investigation of the problems in microassembly and micromanipulation tasks. First prototype of a workstation and the development of a second prototype with enhancements on mechanical and control structure of the system are presented with details on the configuration of the systems. In addition, several experiments using a workstation are presented both on the first and the second prototypes in different modes of operation such as tele-operated, semi-automated and fully automated by means of visual feedback.

Keywords: Microassembly, micromanipulation, microassembly workstation

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