| 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 |
| Sunday, September 15, 2002 | |
|
18h00 |
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 |
|
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.