AET: Micro Production Technology Lab

The Micro Production Technology lab has been developed since 2004 under the support of National Science Foundation and Yamaha Robotics Company. The equipment represents the cutting-edge technology in micro robotics and micro high speed CNC machining. The current trends in industry have been the product miniaturization and the high precision. The lab has been aligned with the trends and will be used to educate AET students regarding sensor-based micro assembly operations as well as high speed milling for the production of miniature parts.

For more information, please contact our AET faculty Dr. Kwon.

Micro robotic assembly station integrated with machine vision system, force sensor, LVDTs, remote monitoring device, and web camera.		Typical part size that will be handled by the micro robot. The picture depicts two micro resistors on a match stick.
Live images for remote control of robot over the web.		Festo SmartCube vacuum control technology for the micro suction cup attached at the end of robot arm.
Linear variable distance transducers (LVDTs) to gauge robot's positioning accuracy. The LVDTs have one micron resolution.		High speed micro milling machine from Haas CNC Tools Co. The machine has a repeatability of 0.0001 in and a spindle speed of 40,000 rpm.