The laboratory focuses on the development of innovative methods and devices for the automated handling and assembly of micro-components (smaller than a millimetre) in various fields of application, such as electronics and telecommunications. Surface adhesion effects affect their handling and assembly and make the techniques used for macro-scale components of little use, so that operations are performed manually.
The activities of the laboratory, oriented towards the development of solutions able to solve these criticalities, are carried out within research projects in collaboration with research, academic and industrial partners. Flexible and reconfigurable robot cells for micro- and meso-scale applications, advanced manipulation systems, 2D machine vision algorithms and unconventional calibration strategies are designed and implemented.
