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Chapter and Conference Paper
Granular Jamming as Controllable Stiffness Mechanism for Medical Devices
Endoscopic medical devices require high bending flexibility to navigate through tortuous channels while exhibiting some stiffness to exert force on tissues. The granular jamming is a solution which can be impl...
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Article
Innovative design of hollow polymeric microneedles for transdermal drug delivery
Hypodermic injections give the best results in terms of drug administration efficiency, but benefit from a negative image among patients due to the fear of pain linked to needles. Transdermal drug delivery (TD...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Assembly of a Micro Ball-Bearing using a Capillary Gripper and a Microcomponent Feeder
Assembly of microsystems is still a challenge today. The numerous parasitic forces often make the manipulation behaviour unpredictable, hence difficult to automate. Therefore special designs of grippers and ad...
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Evolutionary Approach to Design Assembly Lines
The purpose of this paper is to describe the main problems concerning the design of assembly lines. It is composed of the following steps: (1) input data preparation (2) elaboration of the logical layout of th...
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A multiple-objective grou** genetic algorithm for the cell formation problem with alternative routings
This paper addresses the cell formation problem with alternative part routings, considering machine capacity constraints. Given processes, machine capacities and quantities of parts to produce, the problem con...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Behaviour of Flexure Hinges for Use as Articulations in High Precision Mechanisms
For micromechanical engineering purpose, the classical articulations have reached their limits in terms of precision: their movement is corrupted by backlash and imprecisions in assembly. It also becomes incre...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Implementation of a Flexible Guiding System in Translation
In the field of micro-mechanics, it is often advisable to replace conventional joints by flexible ones. The working principle of such joints is based on their elastic behaviour; they have multiple advantages l...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Selecting Material Handling Equipment with Promethee
The authors present a comprehensive approach to select material handling equipment (MHE) at assembly line design stage. They defined a two-level MHE typology, namely generic types and specific equipment, to de...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Subassemblies Detection with Genetic Algorithms
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Book
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Basic Principles of the Proposed Approach
The aim of our assembly planning system is to generate assembly sequences using the various types of data stored in the structured model of the end product, described in Chapter 3.
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Conclusions
This work has a quadruple aim.
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State of the art
Before entering into the details of the various stages of our approach, we shall examine existing solutions.
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Generation and choice of assembly plans
The purpose of automatically generating assembly plans is to relieve the operator of the routine part of this job. The operator wants to identify a number of efficient plans. These will help him or her to prop...
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Flexible assembly
The aim of this first chapter is to place this book in the context of current research in robotized assembly.
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Assembly modelling
Analysis and modelling of the final product constitute one of the most important steps in assembly planning.
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Automatic and systematic generation of precedence constraints
In this chapter, I propose an automatic precedence constraint generation method.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Knowledge-Based Process Planning, Scheduling and Error Recovery in Robotized Assembly
The goal of current researches in robotized assembly is to increase both productivity and flexibility. In this way the trend is now to use two or more robots working together on the same assembly, sharing a pa...
