Program Overview

  Monday, September 16   Tuesday, September 17
  Wednesday, September 18
8h00 Registration and coffee 8h20 Session 4: Micro Fabrication 8h30 Tour begins with Guidant Corporation and Honeywell
9h00 Welcome remarks 9h40 Coffee break    
9h20 Session 1: Systems Architectures for Microfactories 10h20 Session 5: Micro Fluidic Systems    
10h20 Coffee break 12h00 Lunch and committee meeting 12h00  Lunch at Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
11h00 Session 2: Micro Assembly Systems 13h20 Session 6: Micro Actuation and Sensing   Tour continues at Seagate Technology, and University of Minnesota
12h20 Lunch served 14h40 Coffee break    
13h40 Session 3: Micro Assembly Techniques 15h20 Session 7: Toward Nanofactories    
14h40 Coffee break and Poster Session 15h40 Closing remarks    
17h40 Poster presentations end, evening free 19h30 Workshop banquet    

Detailed Schedule (preliminary)

 

Sunday, September 15, 2002

18h00
20h00

Registration and reception
Monday, September 16, 2002
8h00 Registration and coffee
9h00

Welcome remarks

Session 1: Systems Architectures for Microfactories
Chairman: Ralph Hollis
9h20 Micromachine technology trends in microfactory, Takayuki Hirano and Kazuyoshi Furata, Micromachine Center, Tokyo, Japan
9h40 Building a mini-factory from a technology construction kit, Tobias Gaugel, Hannes Dobler, Matthias Bengel, Christof Weis, and Jochen Schliesser, Fraunhofer Intitute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, Stuttgart, Germany
10h00 A centralized control system for microfactories, Alain Codourey and Marcel Honegger, CSEM, Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique, Alpnach, Switzerland
10h20 Coffee break
Session 2: Micro Assembly Systems
Chairman: Tobias Gaugel
11h00 Environment controlled microassembly system, Quan Zhou*, Albut Aurelian*, Carlos del Corral*, and Heikki Koivo**, *Automation and Control Institute, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, **Control Engineering Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland
11h20

Task-level remote control issues for a desktop micro device assembly, Antoine Ferreira* and Shigeoki Hirai**, *Laboratoire de Vision et Robotique (LVR), Bourges, France, **Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), AIST-MITI, Tsukuba, Japan

11h40 Hybrid microassembly system for three-dimensional MEMS components, Kyunghwan Kim*, Deok Ho Kim**, Seok Joo Lee***, and Jachoon Lee**, * Wooshin Mechatronics Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea, **Microsystem Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, Korea, ***Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
12h00 Lunch served
Session 3: Micro Assembly Techniques
Chairman: Hizayuki Aoyama
13h40 Multi-batch self-assembly for microsystem integration, Xiaorong Xiong*, Yael Hanein*, Jiandong Fang*, Daniel T. Schwartz**, and Karl F. Bohringer*, *Department of Electrical Engineering, **Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
14h00 Micro-scale force fit insertion, James F. (Red) Jones, David M. Kozlowski, and Jeffrey C. Trinkle, Intelligent Systems & Robotics Center, Sandia National Laboratories , Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
14h20 Towards automatic assembly of sub-centimeter millirobot structures, Ranjana Sahai, Jusak Lee, and Ron Fearing, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
14h40
Coffee break and Poster Session (posters on display for entire workshop)
17h40
Poster presentations end, evening free
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Session 4: Micro Fabrication
Chairman: Nozuma Mishima
8h20

Micro turning system: a super small CNC precision lathe for microfactories, Daisuke Iijima*, Sumio Ito*, Akira Hayashi*, Hisayuki Aoyama**, and Masashi Yamanaka***, *Nano Corporation, Tokyo, Japan **University of Electro-Communication, Tokyo, Japan, ***Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

8h40 Desk-top ultra high-speed milling machine, Yuichi Okazaki, The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
9h00

Miniaturized machine tools for CNC-based micro/meso-scale machining of 3-D features, M. Vogler*, X. Liu*, R. E. DeVor*, S. G. Kapoor*, R. Subrahmanian**, H. Sung**,and K. F. Ehmann**, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA, **Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

9h20 Miniature electro discharge machine for high precision micro-structurisation, Cédric Joseph, Jean-Philippe Bacher, Jean-Marc Breguet, and Reymond Clavel, Institut de Production et Robotique (IPR), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
9h40 Development of desktop machinery for three-dimensional microstructuring of pyrex glass devices, H. Langen, V. Fascio, R. Wuthrich, T. Ejiri, and D. Viquerat, EPFL, Institut de Production et Robotique, LSRO, Lausanne, Switzerland
10h00 Coffee break
Session 5: Micro Fluidic Systems
Chairman: Bradley Nelson
10h40 Fabrication of aluminum electrodes for glass- and polymer-based microfactories by a simple, low-power laser-assisted corrosion process, Daniel Haefliger, Brian Cahill and Andreas Stemmer , Nanotechnology Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
11h00 Development and fabrication of a modular microreaction system, Oliver Koch and Wolfgang Ehrfeld, Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik AG, Wendelsheim, Germany
11h20 A modular and flexible assembly system for micro fluidic analysis systems, U. Gengenbach*, F. Engelhardt*, A. Hofmann*, R. Scharnowell*, H. Skupin*, and M. Bär**, *Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany, **IEF-Werner GmbH, Furtwangen, Germany
11h40 From laboratory processes to production - table top factory for biotechnological applications, Dirk Malthan, Hannes Dobler, Tobias Gaugel, and Claus Kuhn, Fraunhofer-Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, IPA Department for New Applications, Stuttgart, Germany
12h00 Lunch and committee meeting
Session 6: Micro Actuation and Sensing
Chairman: Karl Bohringer
13h20 Minimally invasive intracytoplasmic sperm injection using rotational pipette, Kensuke Tsuchiya*, Tetsuya Hamaguchi** and Masayuki Nakao*, * Institute of Engineering Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan, ** Department of Engineering Synthesis, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
13h40 Microinterferometer for noncontact Inspection of MEMS, Byungki Kim, H. Ali Razavi, F. Levent Degertekin and Thomas R. Kurfess, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
14h00 CAD model based visual tracking of MEMS components for 3D microassembly, Kemal B. Yesin and Bradley J. Nelson, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
14h20 Scanning optical mosaic scope for micro-manipulation, Benjamin Potsaid, Yves Bellouard, and John T. Wen, Center for Automation Technologies, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA
14h40 Coffee break
Session 7: Toward Nanofactories
Chairman: Hannes Bleuler
15h20 Application of SPM technology for position sensing in micro-nano robotics, A. Lal*, Y. Miyahara**, R. Perez* , J.M. Breguet*, and H. Bleuler*, *IPR, Institut de Production et Robotique, EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, **Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
15h40 Development of a versatile nanohandling station in a scanning electron microscope, S. Fatikow, St. Fahlbusch, St. Garnica, H. Hülsen, A. Kortschack, A. Shirinov and A. Sill, University of Oldenburg, Division of Microrobotics, Oldenburg, Germany
16h00 Nanofactories based on a fleet of scientific instruments configured as miniature autonomous robots, Sylvain Martel* and Ian Hunter**, *Nanorobotics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique, Campus of University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, **BioInstrumentation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusets, USA
16h20 Closing remarks
19h00 Workshop Banquet, Science Museum of Minnesota
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
8h30
Technical Tours

 

Poster Presentations

Towards Microrobots On Chip (MOC): first prototype and perspectives, J. Agnus*, J.-M. Breguet**, N. Chaillet*, O. Cois***, A. Ferreira****, P. Melchior***, C. Pellet*****, and J. Sabatier***, *Laboratoire d'Automatique de Besançon (LAB), France, **Institut de Production et Robotique (IPR), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, ***Laboratoire d'Automatique, Productique, Signal et Image (LAP) Bordeaux, France, ****Laboratoire de Vision et Robotique (LVR) Bourges, France, ***** Laboratoire d'études de l'intégration des composants et systèmes électroniques (IXL), Bordeaux, France

Non-contact handling of micro parts using high frequency vibrations, Michael Zäh, Adolf Zitzmann, Michael Schilp, and Josef Zimmermann, Institute of Machine Tools and Industrial Management, Garching, Germany

Concept of a modularized miniature machine tool and its design evaluation, Nozomu Mishima, Fine Manufacturing System Group, Institute of Mechanical Systems Engineering, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
Development and assembling of a chopstick-type micro manipulator, S. Sakai*, N. Tsuda*, and R. Fujimori**, * Tokai University, Japan, ** Seiko Epson Corporation, Japan
Research on micro tweezers driven by electro-static forces, Jiaru Chu, Dajun Yuan, Xin Zhao and Wenhao Huang, Department of Precision Machinery and Instrumumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Development of a high-speed desktop milling machine, Hitoshi Maekawa and Yuichi Ishikawa, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, Tsukuba,Japan
Fabrication of thick Pb(Zrx,Ti1-x)O3 (PZT) film by electrostatic spray deposition, Jiaru Chu, Jian Lu, Wenhao Huang, and Zhimin Ping, Department of Precision Machinery and Instrumumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Modules of the microgripper construction kit - fine positioning, compliance A. Hofmann, F. Engelhardt, R. Fodor, U. Gengenbach, and R. Scharnowell, Institute for Applied Computer Science, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
A novel liquid handling device for microfactoy, S.Takahashi, H. Kitagawa, H. Makino and H. Ogawa, Advanced Technology Institute, Olympus Optical Co., ltd, Tokyo, Japan
Motion planning of an AFM-based nanomanipulator in a sensor-based nanorobotic manipulation system, Deok-Ho Kim*, Taesung Kim*, Kyunghwan Kim**, and Byungkyu Kim*, Microsystem Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea, **Wooshin Mechatronics Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea

Vision Based Micromanipulation, Seok Joo Lee*, Kyunghwan Kim**, Deok-Ho Kim**, Jong-Oh Park** , and Gwi Tae Park*, *Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, ** Microsystem Research Center , Korea Institute of Science and Technology , Seoul, Korea

Integration of microscopic vision and microforce feedback for microassembly, Ge Yang and Bradley J. Nelson , Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Hybrid micro machine tool and its application, Tsuneo Kurita and Mitsuro Hattori, Institute of Mechanical Systems Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Tsukuba, Japan
Development of the portable micro injection molding machine by applying new mold design concept, Kiwamu Ashida*, Shintarou Hirano**, and Noboru Morita***, * Institute of Mechanical Systems Engineering, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan, ** Graduate school of Chiba University, Japan, *** Faculty of Engineering, Toyama University, Japan
Micro machine with microturning lathe, Yeung Ho Bae, Tae Jo Ko, Byeong Mook Chung, and Hee Sool Kim, School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyoungsan, Korea

Technical Tours

An interesting tour graciously provided by Guidant Corporation, Honeywell, Seagate Technology, and the University of Minnesota will take place on Wednesday, September 18. The tour is free of charge, but space is limited. Please sign up for the tour upon arrival at the symposium.

Proceedings

A hard-bound proceedings book will be distributed to registered attendies.

Papers that appear at the workshop will be considered for a special issue on Microfactories in the Journal of Micromechatronics.