Hybrid microassembly combining robotics and water droplet self-alignment

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 965-977

  Sariola, Veikko ^a   Jääskelinen, Mirva ^a   Zhou, Quan ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Droplet self alignment; hybrid microassembly; micro nanorobots; microassembly; self assembly

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SIZES; FINAL ASSEMBLY; HANDLING ROBOTS; HYBRID ASSEMBLY; IN-DEPTH STUDY; MICRO ASSEMBLY; MICRO PART; MODELING METHOD; NANOROBOTS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; SELF ALIGNMENT; SUCCESSFUL ASSEMBLY; TEST PLATFORMS; WATER DROPLETS;

ALIGNMENT; DROP FORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; NANOROBOTICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROBOTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 78650056906     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2010.2066830     Document Type: Article

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