An innovative micro optical element assembly robot

• Published in: Robotics Today, vol. 14, num. 3, p. 1-4
• Series: Robot. Today (USA)
• Robotics Int. Soc. Manuf. Eng, 2001

Concerns the fabrication of miniaturized optical devices with height attachment precision. For active alignment of micro-optical elements machined with tolerances lower than the intended precision, an accurate 6-DOF robot is needed. This article describes such a structure, which is named Sixtiff. Sixtiff was first developed for the use of a new optical assembly technology, TRIMO-SMD. The robot is a hybrid serial-parallel structure composed of five linear stages and one angular stage. It has a stiff structure, without floating

Keywords: [SLAB] ; assembling ; industrial robots ; micro-optics ; optical elements ; optical engineering computing

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EPFL-DMT-ISR+IOA, Lausanne, Switzerland

Copyright 2002, IEE

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innovative micro optical element assembly robot

miniaturized optical device fabrication

height attachment precision

micro-optical element active alignment

6-DOF robot

Sixtiff

optical assembly technology

TRIMO-SMD

hybrid serial-parallel structure

Reference

• LOA-ARTICLE-2001-009

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