Towards fully automated pick and place operations of individual natural fibers

Author

von Essen, Mathias ; Hirvonen, Juha ; Kuikka, Seppo ; Kallio, Pasi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom. Sci. & Eng., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland

fYear

2013

fDate

26-30 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

26

Abstract

This paper reports automated image-based pick and place procedures for manipulation of individual natural fibers. The developed procedures are part of an effort to develop a fully automated microrobotic-based platform for fiber characterization. The presented procedures are divided into unit operations, which can reused in multiple tasks that the platform must perform. Two different demonstrations: pick and place, and coordinated fiber lifting are presented. In addition, a component-based software that promotes reusability of the developed unit operations is presented.

Keywords

control engineering computing; materials handling equipment; micromanipulators; natural fibres; object-oriented programming; process control; production engineering computing; robot vision; automated image-based pick and place procedures; automated microrobotic-based platform; component-based software; coordinated fiber lifting; fiber characterization; fully automated pick and place operations; natural fibers manipulation; unit operations reusability; Cameras; Grasping; Grippers; Manipulators; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Software; component-based software; microrobotics automation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Manipulation, Manufacturing and Measurement on the Nanoscale (3M-NANO), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Suzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1210-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/3M-NANO.2013.6737419

Filename

6737419