Overview of microgrippers and design of a micro-manipulation station based on a MMOC microgripper

Joël Agnus (1) , Patrick Nectoux (1) , Nicolas Chaillet (1)

1 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)

This paper deals with an overview of recent microgrippers. As the end-effectors of micromanipulation systems, microgrippers are crucial point of such systems for their efficiency and their reliability. The performances of current microgrippers are presented and offer a stroke extending from 50 m to approximately 2mm and a maximum forces varying from 0,1mN to 600 mN. Then, micromanipulation system based on a piezoelectric microgripper and a SCARA robot is presented.

Mots clés: MOC; Micromanipulation : microgripper; micro-robot; piezoelectric; MOC.

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

Joël Agnus, Patrick Nectoux, Nicolas Chaillet. Overview of microgrippers and design of a micro-manipulation station based on a MMOC microgripper. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA'05., Jun 2005, Espoo, Finland. 7 p. ⟨hal-00661471⟩