10 accepted papers
This article focuses on the development of an experimental platform capable of performing, to the authors' knowledge, for the first time, peeling tests on bio-based fibers. These fibers are very small, their diameters being no larger than a few tens of micrometers, and are not attached to a substrat
Origami structures have a wide range of applications in robotics and have been intensively investigated by researchers in recent years.However, enabling sub-millimeter structures is an open question especially because of the lack of small enough joints. In this paper, compliant joints made of Silica
Recently, micro-assembly of individual photonic elements has been highly attracting to provide new optical functionalities and products with high performances. This approach requires position control in free space and contact detection in constrained space. In both cases, getting accurate measuremen
In many cases, soft and continuum robots represent an interesting alternative to articulated robots because they have the advantages of miniaturization capability, safer interactions with humans and often simpler fabricating and integration. However, these benefits are usually considered to arise at
Collaborative robotics allows merging the best capabilities of humans and robots to perform complex tasks. This allows the user to interact with remote and directly inaccessible environments such as the micro-scale world. This interaction is made possible by the bidirectional exchange of information…
Micro-assembly using glue is an industrial need, but at the microscale, the gluing process appears highly challenging. Especially when the thickness of the glue film is large relative to the size of components to be assembled. Moreover, the down-scaling of passive techniques used at the macroscale (
High positioning accuracy is a crucial need to perform successfully complex tasks such as micromanipulation and microassembly. This especially enables to provide high performances or to propose new functionalities/products, notably for integrated optical devices. The objective of the letter is to al
High accuracy is a necessary condition for reliable performance of micropositioning stages (MPSs). However, there are various sources of errors that affect their precision. Characterization is a prior step to calibration for compensating systematic errors so as to improve the positioning accuracy. I
Recently, high resolution visual methods based on direct-phase measurement of periodic patterns has been proposed with successful applications to microrobotics. This paper proposes a new implementation of direct-phase measurement methods to achieve 3-DoF (degrees of freedom) visual servoing. The pro…
Microassembly represents a very promising solution to microproducts and complex Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) fabrication. Since, in the case of teleoperated assembly, an operator is the main source of errors, there is a great interest in microassembly automation. Its main issue consists i…