MINIMAN

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Miniman III robot with 5 degrees-of-freedom gripper
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Miniman III robot with 5 degrees-of-freedom gripper
Miniman III-2 robot with force-feedback gripper
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Miniman III-2 robot with force-feedback gripper
Miniman 3 manipulating objects under a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
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Miniman 3 manipulating objects under a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
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The MINIMAN project

The EU-Esprit Project No. 33915 Miniaturised robot for micro manipulation (http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_RCN=2306861) was carried out between Oct 1998 and Jan 2002.

Objective

The goal of the MINIMAN project was to develop smart microrobot with 5 degrees of freedom and a size of a few cubic cm, capable of moving and manipulating by the use of tube-shaped and multilayered piezoactuators.

  • handling and assembly of micromechanical parts under a light microscope,
  • handling and assembly of micromechanical parts in the vacuum chamber of a scanning electron microscope,
  • grasping, moving and sorting of biological cells under a water-resistant optical lens.

The project is finished and you can download the report here (http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/jan/Miniman-PublicFinalReport-print.pdf).

Partners

Members from Uppsala (http://www.mst.material.uu.se/), St. Ingbert (http://www.ibmt.fhg.de/), Pisa (http://www-mitech.sssup.it/), Barcelona (http://www.ub.es/), Karlsruhe (http://microrobotics.ira.uka.de/) (project-leader), and Sheffield have participated in this project. The task of the Sheffield team was to develop computer vision software.

Furthermore Philips Research (PRLE) (http://www.research.philips.com/) from Eindhoven and Kammrath & Weiss GmbH (K&W) (http://www.kammrath-weiss.de/) from Dortmund were involved as industrial partners.

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