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Micro-assembly

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The trend toward miniaturisation of the last decade has caused a real revolution in the manufacturing of many products and systems in several fields, trying to reduce volume and weight, and integrate more functions in a smaller space. Besides the various manufacturing techniques presented in the previous chapters of the book, growing interest has been gained by the manipulation and the assembly of different micro-components for the production of such complex systems, specifically of hybrid micro-products. In this context, this chapter provides a critical overview on different micro-assembly aspects, including: methods, robots for micro-assembly with related examples, micro-manipulation strategies and tools, vision and force sensing for micro-assembly, consideration of environmental conditioning, and an example of a robotized micro-assembly work-cell developed at the authors’ laboratory.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Micro-System Technologies.

  2. 2.

    Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm.

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    Centre Suisse d’Électronique et Microtechnique (Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology).

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    Scanning Electron Microscope.

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    Focused Ion Beam.

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