Robotic Manipulation of Adhesive Droplets for Applications in Microassembly

摘要：

Assembly and attachment of microparts are of fundamental importance in the development of threedimensional complex microsystems. Adhesive bonding is an important method to assembly micromachining parts. We present an approach to manipulate micron size adhesive droplets for use in robotic microassembly. A micro-probe is developed and bonded to a micro-robot. Adhesive droplets are picked up from adhesive reservoir, and placed on target spots. The effect of surface energy is considered in the design of the micro-probe. The size of manipulated adhesive droplet is determined from the dimension of the micro-probe tip. Experiments were conducted to manipulate adhesive droplets, and assemble three-dimensional micro-mirrors.

作者: Lidai Wang James K. Mills William L. Cleghorn

作者单位: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering,University of Toronto,5 Kings College Road,Toronto,ON,M5S 3G8,Canada

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation(2009年 IEEE信息与自动化国际学术会议)

会议地点: 珠海、澳门

会议语种:英文

页码: 1562-1567

在线出版日期: 2009-06-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）