Frontiers of Assembly and Manufacturing

The technologies for product assembly and manufacturing evolve along with the advancement of enabling technologies such as material science, robotics, machine intelligence as well as information and communication. Furthermore, they may be subject to fundamental changes due to the shift in key product features and/or - gineering requirements. The enabling technologies emerging offer new opportunities for moving up the level of automation, optimization and reliability in product assembly and ma- facturing beyond what have been possible. We see assembly and manufacturing becoming more Intelligent with the perception-driven robotic autonomy, more flexible with the human-robot coupled collaboration in work cells, and more in- grated in scale and complexity under the distributed and networked frameworks. On the other hand, the shift in key product features and engineering requirements dictates the new technologies and tools for assembly and manufacturing to be - veloped. This may be exemplified by a high complexity of micro/nano system products integrated and packaged in 3D with various heterogeneous parts, com- nents, and interconnections, including electrical, optical, mechanical as well as fluidic means.

The technologies for product assembly and manufacturing evolve along with the advancement of enabling technologies such as material science, robotics, machine intelligence as well as information and communication. Furthermore, they may be subject to fundamental changes due to the shift in key product features and/or - gineering requirements. The enabling technologies emerging offer new opportunities for moving up the level of automation, optimization and reliability in product assembly and ma- facturing beyond what have been possible. We see assembly and manufacturing becoming more Intelligent with the perception-driven robotic autonomy, more flexible with the human-robot coupled collaboration in work cells, and more in- grated in scale and complexity under the distributed and networked frameworks. On the other hand, the shift in key product features and engineering requirements dictates the new technologies and tools for assembly and manufacturing to be - veloped. This may be exemplified by a high complexity of micro/nano system products integrated and packaged in 3D with various heterogeneous parts, com- nents, and interconnections, including electrical, optical, mechanical as well as fluidic means.

Dual Arm Robot Manipulator and Its Easy Teaching System.- Calibration of Relative Position between Manipulator andWork by Point-to-Face Touching Method.- Cutter Accessibility Analysis of a Part with Geometric Uncertainties.- Automatic determination of fixturing points: quality analysis for different number of points and friction values.- Contact trajectories for regrasp planning on discrete objects.- Modeling of Two-Fingered Pivoting Skill Based on CPG.- Assembly of 3D Reconfigurable Hybrid MOEMS through Microrobotic Approach.- Modified Assembly Systems and Processes for the Mounting of Electro-Optical Components.- Factory Level Logistics and Control Aspects for Flexible and Reactive Microfactory Concept.- Development of Structured Light based Bin-Picking System Using Primitive Models.- Airframe Dismantling Optimization for Aerospace Aluminum Valorization.- A monitoring concept for co-operative assembly tasks.- Printing pressure control algorithm of roll-to-roll web system for printed electronics.- Adding diversity to two multiobjective constructive metaheuristics for time and space assembly line balancing.- Construction and Application of a Digital Factory for Automotive Paint Shops.- Resource Efficiency in Bodywork Parts Production.- Self-Tracking Order Release for Changing Bottleneck Resources.- Integrated Operational Techniques for Robotic Batch Manufacturing Systems.- A Mathematical Model For Cyclic Scheduling With Assembly Tasks and Work-In-Process Minimization.