Towards reconfigurable and modular microfactory based on the TRING-module stick-slip microrobot.

Dominique Gendreau (1) , Micky Rakotondrabe (1) , Philippe Lutz (1)

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

This paper deals with the presentation of a reconfigurable and modular microfactory based on a stick-slip microrobot called TRING-module and that can performs 2-degrees of freedom. The main advantage of the presented approach is that the microfactory can be quickly reconfigured in order to match with the requirements of the microproducts to be fabricated or to be assembled. This high reconfigurability is obtained thanks to the modularity imposed at the microrobot level. In particular, we demonstrate in this paper that based on only one duplicable microrobot (the TRINGmodule), several configurations of the microfactory are possible. The paper ends with an example of configuration based on two TRING-module microrobots followed by their characterization that can be further used for a controller design for pick-and-place tasks.

Keywords: Microfactory; reconfigurability; modularity; stick-slip microrobot; TRING-module; station and celle; pinck-and-place.; pinck-and-place

Domains: Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics

Dominique Gendreau, Micky Rakotondrabe, Philippe Lutz. Towards reconfigurable and modular microfactory based on the TRING-module stick-slip microrobot.. 8th International Workshop on MicroFactories, IWMF'12., Jun 2012, Tampere, Finland. pp.1-5. ⟨hal-00719157⟩